[Other Sport] SPOTY -2024 Live now on BBC 1

[Iggle Piggle]

SPOTY used to be must watch telly. Now, I couldn't tell you who won last year

Bring back Frank Bough.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Nice to see the new MOTD crew given a run out innit

 

[Gazwag]

Runner up was someone who doesn’t even play a sport FFS

Been plenty over the years, some just sit in a fast car touching pedals and moving a steering wheel.

Must admit I didn't see Keely winning it

 

[Gazwag]

Good to see Cav winning the lifetime achievement though that's a sports person with a personality

 

[maltaseagull]

Dame Sarah Storey. Great personality 19 Medals not in first 3 Won in swimming and cycling.

Absolute joke

 

[Billy in Bristol]

Finding post Paris a very interesting time in my work with the Athletes and the experience days that they deliver. Rowing community f****** hates the elite part of their sport, no-one in Cycling wants to take on the GB Cyclists let alone the 500,000+ Brits that went to Paris wanting to spend £20 maximum on actually having a fun social experience with six medallists.

To that end it won't be one from Yee, Storey, Hodgkinson, cos no one gives a f***

Got that slightly wrong then but congrats the biggest social media presence won

 

[slartibartfast]

@ Alex Scott...
It's the triathlon.

NOT Triathalon.
If you are supposed to be a professional presenter, at least pronounce the event correctly.

You mean... the "triafalon".

Does nobody talk propah anymore? Its all "yoof", and "Norfampton" ... drives me up the wall !!

 

[Bry Nylon]

Does nobody talk propah anymore? .. drives me up the wall !!

Wall? Surely you mean "wuhl"?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Crodo has the honour, or dishonour, of being the only NSCer I have on ignore. Purely because I have come close to breaking my meaningful contact/ no abusing posters rule on NSC when he posts his trolling cricket entries. I'm not 100% convinced he is monogamous poster either. Doubtless you will know.

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?

 

[Bry Nylon]

...it won't be one from Yee, Storey, Hodgkinson, cos no one gives a f***

Really? Keely Hodgkinson is absolute box office and an amazingly driven athlete.

 

[hart's shirt]

Dame Sarah Storey. Great personality 19 Medals not in first 3 Won in swimming and cycling.

Absolute joke

In the minds of voters, clearly some sportspeople are more equal than others. And for more equal, read more able. Disappointing, but sadly predictable.

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.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Really? Keely Hodgkinson is absolute box office and an amazingly driven athlete.

Wanted Yee but Hodgkinson is incredible as well.

 

[Albion my Albion]

This thread needs a pole.

Marie Curie

 

[HangletonGull]

Been plenty over the years, some just sit in a fast car touching pedals and moving a steering wheel.

Must admit I didn't see Keely winning it

You didt see a 1/10 shot with the bookies winning it ?

 

[Gazwag]

You didt see a 1/10 shot with the bookies winning it ?

I didn't even know who the choices were before it started tbf let alone the betting

 

[Brovion]

You mean... the "triafalon".

Does nobody talk propah anymore? Its all "yoof", and "Norfampton" ... drives me up the wall !!

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]

Does anyone actually care these days?

Nope

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

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 .

 

[Triggaaar]

no-one in Cycling wants to take on the GB Cyclists

What does this mean?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Really? Keely Hodgkinson is absolute box office and an amazingly driven athlete.

Rather like Stanislav Martensitov is absolute box office and an amazingly driven musical artist and producer?

All depends on the box, I guess.