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Heres the options
Mark Cavendish (cycling)
Darren Clarke (golf)
Alastair Cook (cricket)
Luke Donald (golf)
Mo Farah (athletics)
Dai Greene (athletics)
Amir Khan (boxing)
Rory McIlroy (golf)
Andy Murray (tennis)
Andrew Strauss (cricket)
Voting during the show only so whats the chance Cav can win?
A golf-ist will win.
I'll vote for Mark Cavendish, though Mo Farah will come a close second.
Only these two have mate me jump up and down in front of the telly this year.
Golf? Cricket? seriously??
Cav will win.
Time to churn out the old adage that golf is a game, not a sport?
McIlroy will win it, Cav should.
Farah and Cav both in the top 3, but neither will win.
slainte ➡ rob
McIlroy won the US Open in 2011 with a record score after earlier in the year having led the US Masters only to blow it at the end.
He'll win.
Which of the sports listed features heavily in the BBC schedule?
Worked it out?
There is your winner, nothing to do with votes or actual sporting achievement.
cav should win it for what he has achieved this year. Whether he does who knows
Craig thomson. Hearts player. Google him. Just a joke.
I was just going to say that Cav has no chance because he's not everyone's cup of tea personality-wise. But then with Ryan Giggs and Damon Hill winning, I guess it's not all down to that.
The one thing about cyclists is they can be an organised bunch sometimes - a concerted effort to vote for Cav could do it.
Cav but it will only work if we all vote in the last 20 seconds.
one of those walk stick batting blokes with check trousers will win it, lycra is gay and the proles will not vote for a gobby midget unless it's willy carson.
cycling is not a sport, if it doesnt use ball(s) its not a proper sport in my eyes, cycling is for nancys who like to wear tight lycra 😉
CAV TO WIN!
Some tragic names on that list, Christ.
Is it really an open, above board vote? If so then can't see Cav getting the nod - honestly think a lot of people wouldn't vote for him because they had to slow down for a cyclist on their drive to work.
Mo Farrah would be a good choice - great to see a UK athlete mixing it up at the top level of distance running.
Whatever you think of golf, there's no denying Rory Mcllroy shat all over the field at the US open - total dominance. So if it has to be a Ted sport that wins it I guess he would be the best choice.
I was just going to say that Cav has no chance because he's not everyone's cup of tea personality-wise.
We all love him now though don't we? I remember the threads a few years back when most seemed to slag him off.
If he doesn't win it after the year he's just had, he never will.
They missed out David Haye!
Garrylager - I disagree, I think the list is pretty good for a change. Not sure that Andy Murray deserves a place on it though. I agree with you though about Mo Farrah - he should win.
Cavendish and Murray are the only ones I've heard of.
I stopped watching SPOTY years ago, a couple of hours of dross with only a passing mention of anything I actually care about.
No Jamie Bestwick thats Lame!
Where's Chrissie Wellington on the list?
Andy Murray - come on! Really?!?!
Cav for the win, for some weird reason golf is popular but with three golfers they'll be sure to split the vote from their dedicated fans. Floating voters will have noticed Cav get shortlisted for the last three years and surely everyone loves a world champion.
The only good thing about Cav not winning is the look of disbelief he does, last year when the fat dart thrower got second (or third) I swear you could see Cav mouthing "FFS", he looked properly gutted.
The guy on 5Live this morning (or maybe yesterday) felt that Cav is nailed on.
Now he's a world champion. Now he deserves to win.
Ricky Burns the boxer has had a brilliant year and not even short listed .
Cav should win but won't. I haven't heard of most of the others though.
That being the case the nominees haven't exactly set the heather on fire barring Cav.
A golfer winning a major, something that other British golfers regular win (or at least regular contend in) is a good achievement but cant really compared with what Cavendish (or Farah) has managed this year. Remarkable achievements which are rare for British sportspeople.
Hope Cav wins this year and Farah wins next year after doing the business at the olympics.
Cav to win, he ticks all the boxes.
British
Huge achievements in his sport
Massive personality as well! Always a bonus when it's called Sports Personality of the year. IMO
Definately an outsider but for me Alastair Cook. His dominant series in Austrailia last Christmas stunning and he kept repeating it, an outstanding achievement 'away'.
Struggle to a golfer losing though, but think Luke Donald is a better winner than Mcllroy. Murray shouldn't be there.
how come there are no english rugby players on that list? 🙂
And why no John Terry?
I reckon Cav has a good chance and it'll be between him and Farah.
Too many golfers, which will dilute the individual vote, although Clarke will still get a huge number of sympathy votes on top of his deserved ones.
Andy Murray got to the semi-finals of all four majors last year, only the seventh man ever to achieve that. It's all the more impressive as he's playing in arguably the greatest era of all time, particularly with the year that Djokovic enjoyed. So reckon that his name is as deserved in that list as any others.
That said, don't warm to him at all and he's rightly got no chance of winning this year.
It's a pity it's not based on actual sporting achievement, there would be a lot more cyclists in there.
Cav is almost in the top ten of Grand tour stage wins ever now, by the end of next season he will be in the top ten mixing it up with Hinault, Coppi and Merckx. Not that that will mean shit to any non-cyclists.
In recognition of the new STW, I'll be voting for one of the female representatives on the list.
Oh... 😈
http://espn.go.com/action/athlete/_/id/630/jamie-bestwick
Check out the comp history
Struggle to a golfer losing though
That might be the case if there was only one of them on the list - as mentioned by others, they're stuffed with 3 of them on the list splitting the vote.
http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/awards/sports-personality-of-the-year/winner - every single bookie has Cav as favourite, though you get better than evens at most of them, so far from nailed on.
...in fact doing the calcs, most bookies have the odds of a golfist winning very close to the odds of Cav winning.
I think that there should be a requirement that all the nominees attend on the night and have to wear their relevant sporting kit. Not for any reason other than it'd look pretty funny 🙂
Andy Murray has a personality? Wow! Who knew?
Cannot believe that non of our triathletes got nominated, Wellngton, Brownlees, Jenkins all had great seasons.
Apparently,
A range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK were asked to send in their top 10 selections
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_personality/15895642.stm ]BBC how they voted[/url]
Quite interesting to see which papers align with which sports
I'm not sure the Manchester Evening News understood the question.
Manchester Evening News nominations
James Anderson
[b]Dimitar Berbatov[/b]
Glen Chapple
Darren Clarke
Rory McIlroy
Keri-Anne Payne
Paul Scholes
Andrew Strauss
[b]Yaya Toure[/b]
[b]Patrick Vieira[/b]
So is Grey-Thompson being sexist?
Welsh Paralympic great Baroness Grey-Thompson has criticised the absence of women from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist. The 10 nominations were compiled by a panel of sports editors from national and regional newspapers and magazines."The feeling is there's not a woman who can make it on to the top 10 in the list," Grey-Thompson told BBC Wales."It just means that women's sport keeps getting shut out and it just highlights where we are in women's sport."
I agree that not having the likes of Chrissie Wellington and Keri-Anne Payne shows a questionable shortlist but that is because they deserve to be there for their sport/sporting personality not on the basis of their sex. Don't we eradicate sexism, when sex is not used to justify an argument at all?
Some frankly quite bizarre picks from some of those papers. The highlight from those I had to google has to be Nicola Adams - not only competing in that major sport of women's boxing, but she's achieved the giddy heights of being ranked #3 in the world. Clearly a far more deserving candidate than Cav, who The Voice didn't deem worthy of a place on the shortlist. To be fair they're clearly not anti-cyclist, as they did include Shanaze Reade, who doesn't appear to have won anything of note this year.
Cavendish currently favourite on evens at PaddyPower
M Cavendish evens
D Clarke 2/1
R McIlroy 7/1
M Farah 8/1
L Donald 22/1
A Cook 50/1
D Greene 66/1
A Strauss 100/1
A Khan 100/1
A Murray 100/1
I hope the BBC use X-Factor voice over man
Given that the BBC showed the world champs this year, Cav probably has much better chance of winning than he would otherwise.
Andy Murray- a "personality"?
Really?
He's the human equivilant of a Coldplay record FFS...
The Most dour, boring sounding, unispiring, Scottish lad ever.
Apart from maybe Gordon Brown...
No still don't like the fella and won't be voting. I really don't want cycling to become a celeb sport (even if it does only last a few years) so really have no interest in the whole thing, yet another promotion tool for a tiny minority. I don't do X-Factor, why would I do this?
And please don't think it will change anyone's perception of cycling or how they behave towards us. And to be honest seeing how poorly a lot of cycle riders behave just recently I'm not even sure we deserve any better treatment.
WTF is Amir Khan doing anywhere near that list?!?
No Chrissie Wellington 🙁
Basically he became a legit world class fighter after his war with Maidana in Dec of last year. Holds two world champ belts at light welter and easily the best boxer we have in the UK. So it's a bit early for him, as he is not at the true elite level of his sport (yet) the way Cav is, but it's not an outrageous nomination.WTF is Amir Khan doing anywhere near that list?!?
Quite interesting to see which papers align with which sports
It probably would be, if I recognised any of the names on the list.
Andy Murray? Personality? Do me a favor. I know its been a slow year sports wise but really?!
And to be honest seeing how poorly a lot of cycle riders behave just recently I'm not even sure we deserve any better treatment.
Now that is an interesting comment coming from a supposed cyclist. Given the rest of your post, I have to assume it's not a troll. So given some cyclists jump red lights, car drivers are perfectly justified in cutting up and knocking off other cyclists? That is what you mean I presume?
It's a shame Mark Renshaw isn't nomimated too.
He could be ahead on the votes, with Cav running a close second until just before the close of voting - and then with a sudden surge...
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I was just going to say that Cav has no chance because he's not everyone's cup of tea personality-wise. But then with Ryan Giggs and Damon Hill winning, I guess it's not all down to that.
If Cav can reveal himself as a life long ManU supporter then he must have as good a chance as Mr Giggs.
The one thing about cyclists is they can be an organised bunch sometimes - a concerted effort to vote for Cav could do it.
See above for a precedent.
I'm not sure the Manchester Evening News understood the question.
See above for a precedent.
The last time a Brit won the Cycling Worlds they won this.
Im sure Peta can mobilise some support for the lad.
And he definitely has a personality
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you're not really comparing Cav to these guys are you?Hinault, Coppi and Merckx.
I never realised that Nuts and Zoo were sports publications, I thought they were just soft porn?
you're not really comparing Cav to these guys are you?
In terms of stage wins in grand tours, yes - try not removing too much of the context when snipping:
Cav is almost in the top ten of Grand tour stage wins ever now, by the end of next season he will be in the top ten mixing it up with Hinault, Coppi and Merckx.
We all HAVE TO VOTE FOR CAV - we managed it for Sir Chris, now it's got to be done for Cav too - no question he deserves it! 😀
In terms of stage wins in grand tours, yes - try not removing too much of the context when snipping:
Cav is almost in the top ten of Grand tour stage wins ever now, by the end of next season he will be in the top ten mixing it up with Hinault, Coppi and Merckx.
Ok, i'll try to be clearer, you're not really saying he's a rider of the same class as those are you?
Cav would indeed be a very deserving winner but I really do think that both Jamie Bestwick and Danny Hart have been overlooked somewhat. Danny's acheivement was astonishing to say the least, putting almost 12 seconds into the rest of the WORLD, in the wet, in Champery and he is only 19! Jamies Bestwick has also acheived for BMX what so many dream of, winning 5 X-Games straight is something else.
Ok, downhill and BMX may not be mainstream but this is about sporting acheivement and these guys have made some exceptional ones. I can only imagine what it would be like to see that crowd watch Danny's run with Warner and Pagey on the mic.
Anyway, bit said.
Yeah cos page makes it sound really interesting doesn't he? 😯
How comes no womens made it into the top 10. I'm not a big sports fan, but did the best woman not even excel to the standard of the tenth best man?
wrecker - yeah I thought he got pretty excited about it?
Well the statement is there for you to read. What do you think we're really saying?you're not really saying he's a rider of the same class as those are you?
They're not even mainstream cycling - I'm sure I can't be the only person on here who'd have to google the two chaps you mentioned.Ok, downhill and BMX may not be mainstream
I see the mistake you're making.this is about sporting acheivement