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This is the week of fat Welshmen, fat Englishmen, a fat German, a bald Dutchman and a perfectly normal looking Belgian battling for the title...

The races would have been much different tactically. How about this? Men 1 Raab 2 Ludwig 3 Bauer Women 1 Canins 2 Longo 3 Twigg

And if you know how Kiribati is pronounced in English you'll realise that's a fishing equipment shop in the west of Ireland

I wonder what the results would look like if they could have retested the urine samples.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. If you don't then please have a good week anyway...

Other awards Young Sports Personality of the Year: Jessica Gadirova Gymnastucs Lifetime Achievement Award Usain Bolt Athletics Helen Rollason Award “for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity” Rob Burrow Rugby League for campaigning for charity despite being weakened by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_neuron_diseases Special Award: Kevin Sinfield for rugby league for doing all he could for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_neuron_diseases World Sport Star Award: Argentina Lionel Messi for Argentina's victory at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Team of the Year: England women's national football team Coach of the Year: Sarina Wiegman, coach of the English soccer team

This has been removed after 2012. One of the competitors in 2016 was Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam who had 26 pro fights and held a world title before he returned to the Olympics However some of the professional boxing organizations will ban boxers who compete at the Olympics for getting a world ranking. Basically it's very complicated...

Similar question - baseball players who play in the US major leagues? Olympic or non-Olympic?

Question - are professional boxers and rugby players who only play 15 player rugby eligible for the non-Olympic award?

The BBC sports personality of the year awards 1st Beth Mead (football) 2nd Ben Stokes (cricket) 3rd Eve Muirhead (curling) Youth award Jessica Gadirova (gymnastics)

For the men I go for Foss. For the women I go for somebody who isn't even an option for the poll. The world junior champion Zoe Backstedt of Great Britain.

In the UK there were 19.3 million watching the game (already the figures usually rise a little in the following days) 15 million on BBC, just over 4 million on ITV. The record is 32 million back in 1966...

Syers once won the silver medal at the men's world championships. Julin was 4 months pregnant when she won gold in 1920. Henie dominated the 20s and 30s but was a bit of a diva off the ice, which probably helped her when she became a movie star. Nobody ever had the charisma of Witt. But be careful when you google photographs of her....

I really should read this forum more carefully...

First news from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year The award for the World Sportsperson of the Year goes to... the man in the picture below. The British shortlist will be published tomorrow, awards given on Wednesday

Bellingham of England?

Not this?

Maybe bad, nasty Argentina and beautiful football Argentina will have a penalty shoot out to decide who is world champion?

Lloris provides the world with one of the most legendary moments in football history

Back when I was 14 I gave away a penalty for that same sort of challenge, So I have hated that referee for 30 years now...

At this point can I mention that somebody tracked back one side of my family to where my ancestors came over with the Norman (French) invasion of England in the 11th century...

Let me guess, you weren't alive in 1990?