The (Lewis Hamilton) Sports Personality of the Year Award 2007

[HackneyE9]

Mark Cavendish, surely. You can't argue with four stages of the Tour de France. It's not like playing reality-Nintendo with an expensive car, a la Hamilton.

 

[Red Faction]

timo glock all the way!!

 

[stavros]

Mark Cavendish, surely. You can't argue with four stages of the Tour de France. It's not like playing reality-Nintendo with an expensive car, a la Hamilton.

OTM. I'd pick Cav second, behind Hoy. If Calzaghe beats Jones he can have third, which would give a totally non-English top three. Has that ever happened before?

 

[stavros]

OK, how does Calzaghe fit into everyone's thinking now? The fight was on pay TV so maybe I can't pass judgement, but his record is even more impressive than last year now.

 

[Gingerman]

OK, how does Calzaghe fit into everyone's thinking now? The fight was on pay TV so maybe I can't pass judgement, but his record is even more impressive than last year now.

He won it last year which was a fairly thin year for british sport,cant see him winning again this year, far more compition.

 

[editor]

I wouldn't exactly call Hamilton a great 'personality' and his tax exile status would make me less inclined to vote for him.

 

[dtb]

Calzaghe has achieved more than any other sportsperson currently active in the UK at the moment so he should win again, obviously he won't. would they ever award it to 2 people? hamilton and calzaghe

 

[aylee]

timo glock all the way!!

Without denigrating Hamilton's achievements, he has earned vast sums from his driving and has had the good fortune to be backed by the best possible machinery.

Hoy's achievements are awesome, but he's also had the benefit of state-of-the-art facilities.

For astounding achievement against the odds, involving massive personal sacrifice, in a sport where our success has been at best sporadic and where the facilities nation-wide are generally quite shit, Adlington should get the award.

 

[baldrick]

For astounding achievement against the odds, involving massive personal sacrifice, in a sport where our success has been at best sporadic and where the facilities nation-wide are generally quite shit, Adlington should get the award.

Yup.

And she actually has a personality, unlike Hamilton.

 

[embree]

OK, how does Calzaghe fit into everyone's thinking now?

I would imagine that many Welsh are still convinced they'll never give it to a Welshman

 

[stavros]

Hoy's achievements are awesome, but he's also had the benefit of state-of-the-art facilities.

He's hardly been recognised though has he? And along with Calzaghe, Taylor and Wiggins, he's been dominant for a sustained period, so as with Joe last year and Redgrave in 2000 it would be as much for his career as a whole as for simply this year.

As for the Welsh vote, might it get split between Joe and Nicole Cooke?

 

[Gingerman]

Is Hamilton actually a human being?,he comes across as a corporate spouting robot.

 

[stavros]

Is Hamilton actually a human being?,he comes across as a corporate spouting robot.

He may well be. At the end of the day it's all irrelevent, because he's Swiss and thus doesn't qualify.