Team GB for BBC Sprts Personality of the year?

[Badger Kitten]

Smeone suggested this on a Guardian comment thread and I thought YES.
How would one go about suggesting this as a votable possibility?
I do not twitter or Facebook or blog and no longer live in the UK so can't do much but what do you think of it as A Plan?

 

[The Boy]

There's a separate team category, ffs.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Yes but it's personality (individual) of the Year which is the big one, and it would be a way of acknowledging the fact that how can you pick one, this year of all years...

 

[Lo Siento.]

aaaaaaaaaargh, the nationalism, it hurts my eyes!

 

[bi0boy]

how can you pick one, this year of all years...

Maybe have a vote?

 

[The Boy]

Yes but it's personality (individual) of the Year which is the big one, and it would be a way of acknowledging the fact that how can you pick one, this year of all years...

Quite easily. Pick the athlete who's achievements are the greatest. Olympics or not.

 

[CyberRose]

Yes but it's personality (individual) of the Year which is the big one, and it would be a way of acknowledging the fact that how can you pick one, this year of all years...

Easy, Jessica Ennis. She should win the team one as well

 

[1927]

Fuck off, its Wiggo's end of.

 

[1927]

Maybe have a vote?

Yeah maybe the BBC could have shortlist of ten and then get viewers to ring or text with their votes. Votes cast after lines have closed will not be counted but may still be charged!

 

[The Boy]

Fuck off, its Wiggo's end of.

Can't stand the guy and even I can see this.

 

[1927]

Easy, Jessica Ennis. She should win the team one as well

FFS, how many medals did she win?

There's plenty that have won 2 in this games, she'd be lucky to make top 10 on merit!

 

[CyberRose]

Fuck off, its Wiggo's end of.

"End of"?! What are you? Some out of touch Tory MP?!

Jessica is the best all round athlete the world has ever known, she had to rely only on herself, not some technological advantage on a £20k bike...

 

[weltweit]

.. Jessica is the best all round athlete the world has ever known, she had to rely only on herself, not some technological advantage on a £20k bike...

Eh, surely some hyperbole here, surely she can't be the best the world has ever known.....?

 

[CyberRose]

Eh, surely some hyperbole here, surely she can't be the best the world has ever known.....?

She is

 

[weltweit]

She is

IIRC she did not even get maximum/record points in her event, others have scored higher than her.

 

[twistedAM]

Jessica is the best all round athlete the world has ever known, she had to rely only on herself, not some technological advantage on a £20k bike...

 

[The Boy]

"End of"?! What are you? Some out of touch Tory MP?!

Jessica is the best all round athlete the world has ever known, she had to rely only on herself, not some technological advantage on a £20k bike...

Best all round athlete? That the world has ever known?

You can have the first sentence. The second is nothing but hyperbole.

 

[twistedAM]

Best all round athlete? That the world has ever known?

You can have the first sentence. The second is nothing but hyperbole.

Hyperbole is kind. It's either trolling or gross stupidity.

 

[Lo Siento.]

"End of"?! What are you? Some out of touch Tory MP?!

Jessica is the best all round athlete the world has ever known, she had to rely only on herself, not some technological advantage on a £20k bike...

Wiggins became the first British person to ever win the Tour de France and won a gold medal in the same year. That's well beyond a gold medal in the track competition that arguably has the lowest prestige of any event...

 

[bi0boy]

More women vote than men, and considering most women aren't lesbians, Ennis won't be a dead cert.

 

[Lo Siento.]

More women vote than men, and considering most women aren't lesbians, Ennis won't be a dead cert.

I'd expect that to work the other way around. Women are more likely to identify with another woman, than lots of men to vote for a woman.

 

[bi0boy]

I'd expect that to work the other way around. Women are more likely to identify with another woman, than lots of men to vote for a woman.

I thought that once popular theory had been disproven by the X factor?

 

[Lo Siento.]

I thought that once popular theory had been disproven by the X factor?

would you expect the X factor voting patterns to be the same as for a sports award?

 

[bi0boy]

I'd certainly expect the profile of public telephone voters to be somewhat similar. It takes a special someone to pay to vote in such contests.

 

[Celt]

BK - nice to see you posting.

I think in the UK feelings are quite strong about particular athletes, and to be honest I think naming team GB would almost be a cop out.

I also more or less assume Bradley Wiggins who excelled at the Olympics within weeks of being the first Brit Ever to win the tour de france

 

[bi0boy]

I note Mo Farrah came third in the 2011 voting...

 

[Lo Siento.]

BK - nice to see you posting.

I think in the UK feelings are quite strong about particular athletes, and to be honest I think naming team GB would almost be a cop out.

It would be an act of self-congratulatory nationalist back-slapping of epic proportions. Look at us, aren't we great! It would say.

 

[Lo Siento.]

I'd certainly expect the profile of public telephone voters to be somewhat similar. It takes a special someone to pay to vote in such contests.

but even if they're the same voters, they wouldn't be applying the same criteria.

 

[CyberRose]

IIRC she did not even get maximum/record points in her event, others have scored higher than her.

So fucking what?

 

[bi0boy]

but even if they're the same voters, they wouldn't be applying the same criteria.

but I'd expect them to under the sway of the same influences.