SPOTY Who will it be
Discussion
cuprabob said:
Adam Peaty, if swimming was more mainstream. He should still make it onto the shortlist.
I think he will make the shortlist. Won the 50 and the 100 twice now at consecutive world champs; no one has even won the 50 twice in a row. Won the 100 at the olympics in Rio. Smashed WR to smithereens in the 50 just this week, is a great bloke and has a bit of personality about him; he's pretty active on the social media and things. Most successful british swimmer since David Wilke (in a WC sense)make no mistake 25.95 for a 50 breastroke and 57.13 for 100 are almost mythical times to swim for those events. He holds the top 10 fastest ever times for the 100 and I think 8 or 9 for the 50. To say he's a sensation is really underselling it.
But swimming just isn't that mainstream in the UK. They are competing year round but the public only really get to see Olympics, Worlds and Commonwealths.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Friday 28th July 15:54
hornetrider said:
If Froome bags the Vuelta even I'll vote for the dull b
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Froome has grown on me over the years. Especially last year in the Tour when he side swiped the td t spectator. But given the current hatred for cyclists in the UK he will never win.Farah has to be in with a shout as he is popular.
I would vote for Peaty though. He is a beast in the pool and no one else is even close. Seems like a decent chap too. Lots of people swim but hardly any watch it so I doubt he has the base support to win. Never know though. Ali Brownlee came close last year and Triathlon is a fairly minority sport
He came close on the strength of one (highly) sporting gesture I'd say.
However, the brothers thing gives them a higher profile than an individual would get IMHO.
I would say AJ is probably strong favourite.
Froome would get my vote - using personality in the sense it is used in this case as in a way of saying 'person' rather than 'likable' - if he does the double the achievement is head and shoulders above anyone else's.
Whilst Peaty is an animal and outstanding at what he does, his discipline is about as narrow as he could make it.
However, the brothers thing gives them a higher profile than an individual would get IMHO.
I would say AJ is probably strong favourite.
Froome would get my vote - using personality in the sense it is used in this case as in a way of saying 'person' rather than 'likable' - if he does the double the achievement is head and shoulders above anyone else's.
Whilst Peaty is an animal and outstanding at what he does, his discipline is about as narrow as he could make it.
Vocal Minority said:
He came close on the strength of one (highly) sporting gesture I'd say.
However, the brothers thing gives them a higher profile than an individual would get IMHO.
I would say AJ is probably strong favourite.
Froome would get my vote - using personality in the sense it is used in this case as in a way of saying 'person' rather than 'likable' - if he does the double the achievement is head and shoulders above anyone else's.
Can't argue really. He deserves it, but has little chance. A large number of the gen pop (including me, TBH) think that whoever wins a cycling event has probably cheated. That's not fair, but it's not completely unreasonable either. The sport is toxic.However, the brothers thing gives them a higher profile than an individual would get IMHO.
I would say AJ is probably strong favourite.
Froome would get my vote - using personality in the sense it is used in this case as in a way of saying 'person' rather than 'likable' - if he does the double the achievement is head and shoulders above anyone else's.
Vocal Minority said:
Whilst Peaty is an animal and outstanding at what he does, his discipline is about as narrow as he could make it.
True enough, but all the guys he's making mugs of have an equally narrow focus. Greatest of All Time by quite some distance. Can't ask much more of him than that.It's not a personality award, it's an award voted by the public for the person who they believe has been the most successful that year.
It's number 2, not number 1 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/perso...
It's number 2, not number 1 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/perso...
FourWheelDrift said:
It's not a personality award, it's an award voted by the public for the person who they believe has been the most successful that year.
It's number 2, not number 1 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/perso...
isn't the short list provided by the BBC?.It's number 2, not number 1 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/perso...
If it has anything to do with Sporting Performance Peaty should be a shoe in.
FourWheelDrift said:
Yes, the short list is. The BBC doesn't trust the general public not to nominate Sporty McSportface.
An Angler won it once when Angling times printed a load of voting slips and their readers sent them in but the BBC dismissed them.Funny how they didn't do that when Princess Annes daughter won .
Its just not the same without Arry and Frank.
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