Iggle Piggle
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SPOTY used to be must watch telly. Now, I couldn't tell you who won last year
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[Other Sport] SPOTY -2024 Live now on BBC 1
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Nice to see the new MOTD crew given a run out innit 
Gazwag
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Gazwag
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Good to see Cav winning the lifetime achievement though that's a sports person with a personality
maltaseagull
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Dame Sarah Storey. Great personality 19 Medals not in first 3
Won in swimming and cycling.
Absolute joke
Won in swimming and cycling. Absolute joke
Billy in Bristol
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Got that slightly wrong then but congrats the biggest social media presence won
slartibartfast
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You mean... the "triafalon".
Does nobody talk propah anymore? Its all "yoof", and "Norfampton" ... drives me up the wall !!
Wall? Surely you mean "wuhl"?
I have him on ignore too.
For posting crass insensitivity in his hubristic rush to be funny first.
I have made up and forgotten better jokes, frankly.
Incidentally, can you guess who is club chairman at Whitton United?
Really? Keely Hodgkinson is absolute box office and an amazingly driven athlete.
hart's shirt
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In the minds of voters, clearly some sportspeople are more equal than others. And for more equal, read more able. Disappointing, but sadly predictable.Dame Sarah Storey. Great personality 19 Medals not in first 3
Absolute joke
Going on from what I posted earlier, BBC Sport aren't really in a position to nominate Storey as they primarily invest in able-bodied sports coverage.
When it comes to genuinely promoting para-sport, Channel 4 dominate and have had the moral high ground here for well over a decade now.
Ironically, Helen Rollason who has an award named after her championed disability sport long before it was fashionable.
She was an advocate of disability sports, and helped to alter its public and media perception with her coverage of the 1996 Summer Paralympics. Britain's Olympic Team had been fairly unsuccessful at that year's Olympics, prompting Rollason to urge viewers and the media to support what she called the "real" Olympics. Jane Swan, General Secretary of the British Paralympic Association, later described how Rollason's support for the event had helped to change its image. "Until then, the Paralympics had been treated as documentary material, focusing mainly on disability. Helen made people realise that it was sport." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Rollason
I wonder if Clare Balding who presented the Paris Paralympics on Channel 4 sees a similar need for continued championing here.
At the very start of tonight's show, her introduction in order of 'the Paralympics and Olympics' didn't escape me.
Wanted Yee but Hodgkinson is incredible as well.
This thread needs a pole.
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HangletonGull
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You didt see a 1/10 shot with the bookies winning it ?
Gazwag
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I didn't even know who the choices were before it started tbf let alone the betting
I have to say I cannot stand Alex Scott as a presenter. And whilst I might indeed be Boomer Gammon I am not someone who thinks that all BBC presenters should be middle-aged white men speaking in clipped Received Pronunciation. I've got nothing against accents, indeed my two favourite commentators of all time were Scottish (Bill McClaren) and Australian (Richie Benaud). I also love listening to Clare Balding and Gabby Logan, so it's not a gender thing either. Nor is it racist: Ian Wright is a great summariser. But Scott .... Sheesh. Ignorant and irritating in equal measure.
bluenitsuj
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Nope
There is a word she pronounces where a syllable is missing (there are others who also do this) and it grates so badly*.
If Ian Wright (who I also really like) can train himself to not arkse people questions, Scott can bloody well train herself to stop doing whatever the f*** it is she does (mercifully I have bleached it from my feeble memory tank, presently). It was sumpthin, though.
Worse with her though is she doesn't sound properly engaged, as if she is reading from an autocue.
Much worse than Scott though is Joe Cole who has never knowingly pronounced a "th", neiver wiv or wivout finking.
Back to topic, I have never heard of half the SPOTY nominees and have no idea what the winner does.
When I heard her name the first think that came into mind was Colin, legendary bassist with Back Door.:
*Probally. f*** it. I'll be thinking about that all day, now
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What does this mean?
Rather like Stanislav Martensitov is absolute box office and an amazingly driven musical artist and producer?
All depends on the box, I guess.