BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015

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and the nominations are out, who is your winner.

Lizzie Armitstead

Lucy Bronze

Tyson Fury

Adam Peaty

Greg Rutherford

Mo Farah

Andy Murray

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Chris Froome

Kevin Sinfield

Max Whitlock

Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis for me 3 times World Champion or maybe Murray for the Davis Cup win.
 
Fury will be a controversial choice.

Having said that, I think he deserves and I hope he wins.
 
Well that's absolutely horrible. I could pick out about 8 winners and each one of them would be fully deserved. Can't choose. :eek:

Somehow Fury isn't one of them, though. :lol:
 
Murray for me. We haven't won the Davis Cup since the days of Fred Perry and let's face it, Murray won it 90% by himself.
 
Where's Coneygree?

The Davis Cup win should remove any doubt about the Team of the Year.
 
Why is Froome so under-appreciated in the UK, because cycling in general doesn't get much attention? What he did/does is pretty close to what Hamilton does in the F1, especially for people on the continent.
 
Hamilton was SPOTY in 2014, it would be plain daft if he were to win it back-to-back for the manufacture-led procession. Murray too is a recent recipient, and would be better recognised under the team category.

Armitstead, Peaty, Whitlock, Rutherfood, many of the others on the list would be more deserving of the recogniton IMO.


RobinLFC said:
Why is Froome so under-appreciated in the UK, because cycling in general doesn't get much attention? What he did/does is pretty close to what Hamilton does in the F1, especially for people on the continent.
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Since 2008 cycling has been responsible for three winners of the award.
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
Since 2008 cycling has been responsible for three winners of the award.
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Oh alright, didn't know that. Just felt that way because you've got some very talented riders in Froome, Wiggins, Cavendish, Thomas, Kennaugh and others and their achievements always seem to go under the radar on this forum, Froome's win at the TdF barely got any attention on here. Could be it's just a wrong impression I've got though.
 
RobinLFC said:
Oh alright, didn't know that. Just felt that way because you've got some very talented riders in Froome, Wiggins, Cavendish, Thomas, Kennaugh and others and their achievements always seem to go under the radar on this forum, Froome's win at the TdF barely got any attention on here. Could be it's just a wrong impression I've got though.
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No it's true, it got far less attention than Wiggins' got, we're a little blasé about it now. He's also been unlucky so far that in the years he's done well, someone else has done something that's more of a novelty. Plus he doesn't come across as having a personality as such. It took Murray weeping on live television after losing the Wimbledon final for people to warm to him.
 
I think it'll be either Ennis-Hill or Hamilton, probably the former, with Mo Farah finishing shamefully low again. The Davis Cup team will get team of the year, I'd say that's more fitting than Murray winning the individual award on the back of his own performances.
 
Peaty is the 2015 world champion and the 2014 European and Commonwealth champion in 100 metre breaststroke, the 2015 World champion and 2014 European champion in 50 metre breaststroke, part of the Great Britain team that won the mixed medlay relay world title, and the world record holder as of 5 August 2015 in all three events. He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships.

First man to go under 58 seconds in the 100m too.
 
Bookies leaning towards Murray with Ennis-Hill and Fury also fancied.

Then it's quite a drop to Hamilton in 4th.
 
Due to the nature of how big wins in their earlier careers soften the achievements of this year, it has to be Fury over Hamilton or Murray. Certainly in terms of individual sporting achievements. However, boxers tend to win these awards by being likeable characters or having a very credible following that will vote on these sort of events. Fury lacks either and nor will he have the weight of sports journalists to back his cause I feel.

Though I shall state once again, taken in merit and isolation of the gravitas of what their sporting achievement has done, Fury is a clear winner as an individual. Murray and Hamilton have colossal assists from their teams for starters. Mo's achevements shouldn't be overlooked either but the delivery of such fine achievements after his, may reduce the impulse to vote for him in many.
 
While Hamilton has been great this year, the simple fact is that he only really had to beat Rosberg who is merely a decent driver. That car he has is absurdly good and would give anyone race wins.
 
Sam said:
I don't really follow boxing that much, what is controversial about Fury? Is he a bit of a cnut?
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He's a bible basher who believes that homosexuality and abortion should be illegal. He's also a bum of a fighter rather than an all time great like Hamilton.
 
FC Ronaldo said:
Due to the nature of how big wins in their earlier careers soften the achievements of this year, it has to be Fury over Hamilton or Murray. Certainly in terms of individual sporting achievements. However, boxers tend to win these awards by being likeable characters or having a very credible following that will vote on these sort of events. Fury lacks either and nor will he have the weight of sports journalists to back his cause I feel.

Though I shall state once again, taken in merit and isolation of the gravitas of what their sporting achievement has done, Fury is a clear winner as an individual. Murray and Hamilton have colossal assists from their teams for starters. Mo's achevements shouldn't be overlooked either but the delivery of such fine achievements after his, may reduce the impulse to vote for him in many.
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I'm not sure Murray has had a colossal assist from his team. He's won 11 of 12 points for GB this year and only 3 of those were doubles. He's pretty much the reason GB won.
 
Tyson Fury deserves it, but he's the least PC choice possible, so he won't stand a chance.
 
Tommy said:
Tyson Fury deserves it, but he's the least PC choice possible, so he won't stand a chance.
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Not sure it's PC exactly. It's a personality of the year award and most people would say he has pretty unpleasant aspects to his personality, I think.
 
sullydnl said:
Not sure it's PC exactly. It's a personality of the year award and most people would say he has pretty unpleasant aspects to his personality, I think.
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It's more about achievements than anything else, otherwise there's no way Calzaghe would've won it in 2007. Every award given is based on success moreso than anything else, and based on success, I've gotta give it to Tyson.
 
The lack of Anthony Crolla is astonishing.

House robbed, his brain cells robbed by a whack to the head and a world title robbed back earlier in the year. He then went out and won it with a knockout. His story is fantastic. A hell of a lot more deserving than a vile homophobe like Fury.

Murray and Peaty being the other outstanding performers.

Peaty in particular has had a ridiculous year relative to his sport.
 
712 said:
Because he said he hated the English but then went back on it, when he realised how much money it would lose him. I wouldn't mind him hating the English, half the caf does, just so long as he was honest about it.
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That probably is part of the reason, maybe it's just his face? It hurts my eyes to look at him
 
Sam said:
I don't really follow boxing that much, what is controversial about Fury? Is he a bit of a cnut?
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He likened homosexuals to paedophiles. As a boxer a great deal of the British and American press are calling him the worst lineal heavyweight champion in history talent wise. I agree that he is certainly near the bottom.
 
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