Sports Personality of the Year 2012

[RonManager]

GusTheFox ‏@GusTheFox

Top lad. Watching Bradley Wiggins beat the **** out of a swan with his bike pump. You'd think he'd have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

 

 

 

 

[Hatch]

Bet the BBC are glad they went to the effort of getting Lennox Lewis to present the award. What a chopper

 

and by a stroke of luck, they had the 3rd place trophy on hand in Miami to award to him, despite the fact that the 'live' phone vote finished just minutes earlier.

 

 

So presumably, they must have had a 2nd place and a winners trophy on hand in case he won, and also 3 trophies available for both Hoy and McIlroy who were also both overseas. Not to mention, a top 'Sports celeb' on hand to award the trophy to them.

 

I demand answers.

[Hatch]

Below are the results of the phone voting for the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year main award:

Total votes: 1,626,718

1. Bradley Wiggins 492,064 (30.25%)

2. Jessica Ennis 372,765 (22.92%)

3. Andy Murray 230,444 (14.17%)

4. Mo Farah 131,327 (8.07%)

5. David Weir 114,633 (7.05%)

6. Ellie Simmonds 102,894 (6.33%)

7. Sir Chris Hoy 42,961 (2.64%)

8. Nicola Adams 35,560 (2.19%)

9. Ben Ainslie 35,373 (2.17%)

10. Rory McIlroy 29,729 (1.83%)

11. Katherine Grainger 28,626 (1.76%)

12. Sarah Storey 10,342 (0.64%)

[dinger]

Jeez, that team award was an embarrassment. By what stretch of the imagination are a multi-disciplinary collections of participants who don't know each other, who performed different sports in different places, on different days, a team? And most of them didn't deserve the recognition anyway. Some of 'Team GB' were rubbish! What about the ones who were disqualified from their events? What about the 4x100m boys who dropped the baton; do they deserve special recognition? Might as well cop out entirely and declare sport the winner.

Edited 17 December, 2012 by dinger

[bridge too far]

and by a stroke of luck, they had the 3rd place trophy on hand in Miami to award to him, despite the fact that the 'live' phone vote finished just minutes earlier.

 

 

So presumably, they must have had a 2nd place and a winners trophy on hand in case he won, and also 3 trophies available for both Hoy and McIlroy who were also both overseas. Not to mention, a top 'Sports celeb' on hand to award the trophy to them.

 

I demand answers.

 

Yes they did actually! It was explained this morning that they had replica trophies for each contender who wasn't able to attend the event - just in case!

[Sour Mash]

Jeez, that team award was an embarrassment. By what stretch of the imagination are a multi-disciplinary collections of participants who don't know each other, who performed different sports in different places, on different days, a team? And most of them didn't deserve the recognition anyway. Some of 'Team GB' were rubbish! What about the ones who were disqualified from their events? What about the 4x100m boys who dropped the baton; do they deserve special recognition? Might as well cop out entirely and declare sport the winner.

Exactly. Couldn't be bothered watching the programme as knew it would be full of endless over the top sentiments about the Olympics.

[sussexsaint]

How the hell can Sarah Storey get fewer viotes than Grainger !

 

Jess looked smoking last night

[dubai_phil]

 

And THAT is why he is Sports PERSONALITY of the Year