Steve Peat for Sports Personality of the Year?

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  • Joe_Pineapples
    Joe_Pineapples Posts: 1,718
    Cricket . . . . zzzzz

    Probably the most irrelevant sport imaginable up here in Scotland, although you're probably right.
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  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    I don't think flintoff will win it .team players don't win SPOTY as often as individual sportsmen/women.
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    Joe_Pineapples wrote:
    Darts can't be a sport IMO.
    How can it be classed as a sport if you can be a chain-smoking, obese, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen and yet still be classed as an 'athlete'??

    It's a game, just like snooker, bowls and dominoes.

    +1.

    Along with golf, they're not sports. They're games. On the same level as monopoly and scrabble.

    Sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

    So just regular old riding isn't a sport until you try to go faster or further then you did last time, or beat someone up a hill.
  • UncleMonty
    UncleMonty Posts: 385
    There does seem to be a pecking order when it comes to this title - Football, Rugby, Athletics, Cricket & Motor Sports seem to be the blue ribboned events as far as the UK public are concerned

    The Beijing Olympics pushed cycling & swimming forwards but in the non Olympic years you can forget about these.

    Peaty will get a mention as will all our other world champs but I think he's got more change of a Knighthood than he has of making the top 3
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Darts takes athleticism to new levels. Do you realise how far you walk during an average game? Not just the board and back, but the bar and back. And you have to carry pints too.

    jocky_wilson_darts.jpg

    Just look at that! Precision at the oche - tungsten in one hand, fag finely balanced in tother. Jocky was a true sportsman.
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  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    supersonic wrote:
    Darts takes athleticism to new levels. Do you realise how far you walk during an average game? Not just the board and back, but the bar and back. And you have to carry pints too.

    jocky_wilson_darts.jpg

    Just look at that! Precision at the oche - tungsten in one hand, fag finely balanced in tother. Jocky was a true sportsman.

    sonic you're bang on.its a travesty this man never won spoty.
  • wordnumb
    wordnumb Posts: 847
    I've never seen him ride but my money is on this Gary Speed bloke both Peaty and Warner keep going on about winning Sports Personality of the Year.
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Joe_Pineapples wrote:
    Darts can't be a sport IMO.
    How can it be classed as a sport if you can be a chain-smoking, obese, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen and yet still be classed as an 'athlete'??
    Not all sportsmen are athletes. Archery? Golf? Monster Truck racing?

    My money is on Jessica Ennis and she would be a worthy winner. Would love to see Peaty get a decent feature on the night at least however.
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  • supersonic
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    I'd love to put my money on Jessica Ennis.
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  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    what are the actual requirements for SPotY?

    Do you just have to be really good at your chosen discipline or does your personality really have a say in it?

    If so then I think Peaty deserves it more than others. eg I love F1 but don't think Jenson should win it. I just think Peaty has done more to deserve the prize and is a real people 's champion.

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