Talk:BBC Sports Personality of the Year/Archive 1

Young personality of the year
This isn't covered and it would be easy to include it here in its own section. Skinnyweed 22:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes it is. &mdash; Dunc|&#9786; 22:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * So it is. Just that I've never found it before. Skinnyweed 16:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I've deleted this: As the list below demonstrates, the emphasis is more on sport and less on personality.

It is often stated that the winner "has no personality", but the people who say this are ignorant of what the word means in this context. Sports personality is just another way of saying "sportsperson". See the dictionary: "1 a : the quality or state of being a person b : personal existence".

Rumour and speculation
I've removed the following:

The 2005 programme was criticised for keeping the England cricket team from their beds in Pakistan, as they appeared during the ceremony live via satellite. This was despite the fact that they had a match to play the following day, which they went on to lose. Andrew Flintoff, the winner of the 2005 Sports Personality of the Year award, was out for a duck in the game. The show was also criticised for Sue Barker's jokes in regards to Paula Radcliffe's London Marathon loo break incident and Gavin Henson's relationship with Charlotte Church. It is also widely rumoured that in 1964 Speedway Rider Barry Briggs actually topped the public vote, but the BBC chose to give the award to their preferred recipient - second placed Mary Rand. The 2006 programme took place on December 10 at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham making this the first time that the show was staged outside London. The show had been criticised for its decision to exclude Little Britain star David Walliams from the shortlist, despite having been a favourite for his successful swimming of the English Channel. However, the ceremony included a surprise and one-off 'special achievement' award for raising over £1m for charity; the award was presented to Walliams by his Little Britain co-star Matt Lucas.

I'm happy for it to go back in provided it can be properly referenced and verified from reliable sources. Comments that are added to bloggs aren't reliable sources. -- JD554 11:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Winners by sport Table
The table of sports is a nonsense. Dividing atheltics up into its constituent parts is ridiculous. Athletics as a sport has provided 17 winners of SPOTY; that's what the table should reflect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MG291 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

2006 nominees
Is there any point in this still being in the article? We have the top three included in the table, and no other year (apart from the current one) has nominees listed.

I would also suggest that when this year's is finished, the 2007 nominees are removed once the table is updated. Ged UK (talk) 19:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Flags
Why in the winners section are all the national flags (eg. Wales, NI, Scotland, England) used while the Union Jack is used for Princess Anne and Zara Phillips? Highfields (talk, contribs, review) 18:15, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Youngest Winner
The main article states that Michael Owen at 18 is the youngest ever winner of the main award however on Ian Black's (1958 Winner) individual page it states that he at 17 was the youngest.

One of these needs to be corrected?

Martin Rees

12/11/08