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SPORTS PERSONALITY 2007

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Hello and happy New Year!

And as we entered the New Year, I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the list of so-called favourites with the bookies for the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Andrew Flintoff, Monty Panesar...no, I'm not making this up...

Andy Murray is the leading contender, and I'll give them that one.

But surely there are a few candidates the bookies have overlooked.
Here's the ten who are generally shortest in the odds - can you think of any better alternatives?

Andy Murray, Paula Radcliffe, Jenson Button, Monty Panesar, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Joe Calzaghe, Lewis Hamilton, Andrew Flintoff, Amir Khan...

Let me know who you think might be a long shot, with 11 months of sport to go....

HF

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posted Apr 1, 2007

How about team of the year Great Britians cycling team ;not ENGLANDS !
7 golds & 11 medals in all at the recent world track cycling champs in Majorca ,best nation !
By the way there not done with winning other medals theres the road worlds in september aswell as mountainbike worlds in Fort William Scotland & BMX is know an olympic sport !
And before someone says cycling isn't a team sport i tell you straight away that you couldn't be more wrong !

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posted Apr 18, 2007

It has to go to Victoria Pendleton. Name one other sport where you currently have a simultaneous TRIPLE World Champion.

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posted May 4, 2007

kelly sotherton is a great each-way bet, she has come on leaps and bounds(excuse the pun) over the past two seasons, and will stand out in a very average british athletics team. she almost beat the swedish girl indoors and will run her close at the world championships.

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comment by sliver1 (U8395875)

posted May 23, 2007

I think James Toseland has to be in the running top of the world superbike chapionship and with 5 wins already this year. A very long shot but my tip for the future the 16 year old Bradley Smith 125cc honda moto gp star getting better with every round and a future world chap.

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posted Jun 15, 2007

Now this may sound daft but, we do actually have a successful team at the moment. The womens Modern Pentathlon team!!! They have just one Gold in the team event and splendid performance by Heather Fell taking silver in the individual event at the European Championships! This was some feat after all of her funding was removed nearly a year ago. She now trains at home in devon by herself on minimal part time income. Now, i feel that this type of effort and charachter gets so overlooked by the nation, because there are these over paid pre-madonna's who insist on spreading themselves all over the papers.

Bit of a rant, sorry.

MH

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posted Jun 16, 2007

Lewis Hamilton has already bagged the Sports Personality 2007 Award!

1 Grand Prix and he wins the award!

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posted Jun 16, 2007

Lewis Hamilton has already bagged the Sports Personality 2007 Award!

1 Grand Prix and he wins the award!

I'm not saying he's rubbish or anything, he's one of my favourite sports stars!

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posted Sep 1, 2007

Please can we have a winner with a personality, Zara Phillips is bland, and the likes of Rooney are just boring, Flintoff was a rightful winner but he hasn't done enough this year to earn it.

Has to be Monty this year, he is a cult hero and makes everyone laugh. biggrin

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comment by doon1e (U9974358)

posted Oct 12, 2007

I have to agree that people like Flintoff should not be considered. Not only because he has done very little this year, but what he has done at times has hardly been a role model and inspirational. Yes, Lewis Hamilton has now proved himself, but what about James Toseland. We don't hear about him much because the BBC haven't got the rights to World Superbikes, but they have to Moto GP and we all know how popular motor cycle racing is in the UK. 120,000 to watch James at Brands Hatch? Surely that proves it is equal to F1. And James has just won his SECOND world title at the age of 27. We didn't given him the recognition first time around so maybe we should this time, particularly as he is moving up to the F1 equivalent and will be the only Brit and maybe our first real hope since Barry Sheene. And he is a personality too, unlike some of these racing drivers.....even has his own band, Crash! Now ther's a good name.....

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comment by TRB (U5170626)

posted Nov 6, 2007

Jason Robinson - brilliant rugby player, good example of sportsmanship. A good role model for ANY young athlete.

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