Sports Personality of the Year Poll - Who should win?

[Rookie]

Chris Hoy closely followed by Rebecca Adlington third should be an olympian as well

 

[El Presidente]

Adlington should win, because she beat a world record that has stood for 20 years by TEN seconds, a truly amazing achievement.

To do this she was at the pool at 5.30am every morning in the dump that we call Mansfield, and worked her butt off. Her victory was down to her ability, nothing to do with having tens of millions of pounds of engineering to support her.

Hamilton WILL win it though, due to both the nature of his victory on the last lap and the fact that petrolheads delude themselves that F1 is a sport.

 

[Arthur]

Really? you keep thinking that

I will, I bet football got more column inches in the tabloids during the olympics than the olympics did.

Also what has any of the olympians done since the olympics? How have they got on in their chosen sports? You've got no idea have you because you don't really care that Dave the cyclist rode round in a circle faster than Steve the cyclist.

It's like tennis, for two weeks of the year everyone pretends they like tennis when Wimbledon is on, for the rest of the year no one bats an eyelid over it.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

1. Football: Euro 2004 final Portugal v Greece 153 million
2. Olympic Games: opening ceremony 127 million
3. Olympic Games: closing ceremony 96 million
4. American football: Super Bowl 95 million
5. Olympic Games: men's 100m metres 87 million
6. Olympic Games: men's 200m freestyle swimming 66 million
7. Formula one: Monaco grand prix 59 million
8. Football: Champions League final Porto v Monaco 56 million
9. Basketball: NBA finals 25 million
10.= Tennis: Wimbledon women's singles final 21 million
10.= Tennis: Wimbledon men's singles final 21 million
12. Cycling: Tour de France final stage 16 million
13.= Football: FA Cup final Millwall v Man Utd 9 million
13.= Horseracing: Grand National 9 million
15. Rowing: University Boat Race 5 million


These are TV figures from 2004

 

[smudge]

Rebecca Addlington, easy.

 

[fatboy]

Adlington. Genuinely a class above, destroying a world record in the process.
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And she's fit

 

[DTES]

And she's fit

Isn't she also your Facebook friend?

 

[fatboy]

How many of these athletes have personalities?

 

[mattb]

Ohuruogu is so hench

 

[Nottseagull]

Rebecca Addlington, easy.

Unlike most 19 year old girls in Mansfield, she doesn't actually have that reputation.....

 

[Gazwag]

It's like tennis, for two weeks of the year everyone pretends they like tennis when Wimbledon is on, for the rest of the year no one bats an eyelid over it.

you know everybody's opinion then, I like tennis all year, if fact I spent 5 hours playing it today

Hoy should win it btw, he won't because Hamilton will

 

[Nottseagull]

And she's fit

But only in this particular photo!

 

[Frutos]

Sir Bobby Charlton



They don't make 'em like that anymore.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Ramos or Adams for coach of the year?

 

[fatboy]

Legend.

Charlton - not Ramos or Adams.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Legend.

Charlton - not Ramos or Adams.

I dunno about Ramos

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Sir Bobby Charlton



They don't make 'em like that anymore.

Ain't that the truth hon. An all-time great as a player & human being. Tears flowing down in the TT house when he was on stage. Brilliant.

 

[Nottseagull]

To do this she was at the pool at 5.30am every morning in the dump that we call Mansfield, and worked her butt off.

You're just trying to wind me up there, aren't you EP? And she actually trained in that bigger, gun-crime ridden dump we know as Nottingham.

 

[Frutos]

3rd place - Rebecca Adlington

 

[Frutos]

2nd place - Lewis Hamilton