Sports Personality of the year

[Firestorm]

Nominees announced today (from the BBC)

>>The top 10 contenders for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award have been named.

The list features Olympic heroes swimmer Rebecca Adlington, and cycling champions Nicole Cooke, Chris Hoy, Rebecca Romero and Bradley Wiggins.

Fellow Beijing winners sailor Ben Ainslie and 400m gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu also make the list.

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, boxer Joe Calzaghe and British tennis number one Andy Murray make up the 10. <<

So its Hamilton then.............

 

[Uncle Leo]

Poll added. Please vote for who you would like to win, not who you think will win.

 

[Napster]

Actually, only Murray I'd begrudge winning. That is the strongest line-up for some considerable time.

But I'd like to see Hoy win it.

With his three gold medals in Beijing 2008 Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first Briton to win three medals in a single Olympic games since Henry Taylor, in 1908, and the most successful Olympic male cyclist of all time.

and he was the year below me at Edinburgh.

 

[Uncle Leo]

and he was the year below me at Edinburgh.

And not once has he seen fit to mention this in any of his post-Olympics interviews. *******.

 

[Pennyfather]

Big Joe for me.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Chris Hoy just pips Ben Ainslie for me. Tough call though.

 

[Ricey]

I would like to see Hoy win it because he deserves it after his great achievements in the Olympics. He would have to wait till 2012 to be able to be up for this award again.

How is the voting for it done? Is it by the public? If so it will probably be Hamilton who wins it.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I think BBC have the rights to F1 next year, so they are bound to rig it so Hamilton does well.

I'd have voted for Cavendish but he isn't on the list.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I think BBC have the rights to F1 next year, so they are bound to rig it so Hamilton does well.

I'd have voted for Cavendish but he isn't on the list.

Decent shout re Cavendish. He suffered by not doing anything at the Olympics (only member of the GB team not to win a medal?) but his TdF exploits were fantastic. Green jersey for him next year hopefully.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Decent shout re Cavendish. He suffered by not doing anything at the Olympics (only member of the GB team not to win a medal?) but his TdF exploits were fantastic. Green jersey for him next year hopefully.

Yeah, he was let down by Wiggins not having anything in the tank.

Cav's turn of speed in Le Tour was awe inspiring, the way he just left these elite sprinters for dead. He's clearly the quickest man in the world.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Yeah, he was let down by Wiggins not having anything in the tank.

Cav's turn of speed in Le Tour was awe inspiring, the way he just left these elite sprinters for dead. He's clearly the quickest man in the world.

And he'll only get better with experience. Sprinting doesn't tend to be a young man's game. Once he has got a few years behind him and provided his team continue to do the job, he will be very tough to beat.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Big Joe for me.

He got it last year!!

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Hoy with out a shadow of a doubt......But it is 100% that Hamilton will win it

 

[canveyshrimper]

Chris Hoy for me, however no complaints if Ben Ainslie or Becky Adlington win it. Bur has been said the Beeb have F1 next year and I think that it will be Hamilton. And has also been said for once it's a strong field.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Hoy is getting backed in with Ladbrokes. Now 5/1 from 7s and Hamilton, though still a huge favourite, has been eased out to 1/2.

 

[Pubey]

Chris Hoy was immense, but just like Phelps... he always had a good chance of winning multiple medals because of the schedule and the fact that there are so many events. I'm not trying to play down his achievement, but for me personally my vote is for Hamilton

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Any of Hoy, Ainslie, Adlington or Hamilton would be worthy winners. I've just plumped for Ainslie: three golds and a silver in consecutive Olympics - despite having two years off from the last Olympic cycle to gain experience so that he might one day mount an Americas Cup campaign - is an extraordinary achievement. Modest, fiercely competitive, and someone who seems able to tame the elements and his rivals every time he gets in a boat. A remarkable yachtsman - a once-in-a-generation sportsman. If he were able to enter multiple events - something which you're prevented from doing in yachting - I'm sure he'd have won multiple medals.

Team of the Year? If it could go to Team GB's Cycling Team (rather than Team GB's overall Olympics team, which is surely a shoo-in for the award), it should. They swept all before them in the velodrome - magnificent.

Matt

 

[Pennyfather]

He got it last year!!

And? Are there rules to say you can't win it twice?

I would like him to win it, but there is no way he will, given the Olympic winners and of course Hamilton are in the mix.

 

[Slipperduke]

I think I must be spending too much time watching football. With the exception of Hamilton, Murray and Calzaghe, I haven't got a clue who any of them are!

I have to stress that I was out of the country during the Olympics, so if the rest of them are our assorted fencers, conker-wizards and scrabble-chiefs, than that's probably why!

 

[loz]

Hal Robson-Kanu for me.