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And anyway Sports personality of the year shouldnt be exclusive to able bodied athletes
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It's not. You say it like there's some ban on them. If they do well enough they will appear, Tanny Grey THompson did a few years ago.
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so theres no reason why a paralympic athlete shouldnt win
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There's no reason why our 8 time world tiddlywink champion shouldn't win either, that's better than winning 5 medals.
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oh so a paralympic athlete is comparable to a tiddly wink champion when put up against an olympic athlete??? Darren Kennys times werent far off Olympic gold standard actually!!
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What I'm saying is if you want to include little-known sports few people are interested there are thousands of people who dedicate so much time, effort and money into them that we don't hear much about. Tiddly winks may be one of them.
I used to watch speedway and Mark Loram became world champion in 2000, the only British champion in the last 16 years. All his heart and soul went into that, it was the biggest achievement of his life in what is a very dangerous sport. Yet I doubt most people on here have even heard of him.
It'll never happen though, sports personality is always going to be dominated by football, boxing, horse racing, cricket, rugby, golf, F1, tennis and Olympic gold medalists.
23-09-2008, 01:12 PM
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