Keely Hodgkinson has been named BBC Sports Person of the Year.
Voted by viewers for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the award is shown live on BBC One from 7pm to 9pm on weekdays.BBC1 was the only channel and most TV did not have my parents got their first TV in 1958. You either watched it live or you didn’t watch it at all. video recording devices, let alone on-demand viewing, were not unheard of.
The winner is chosen by public votes. In my youth, voting was by letter. In today’s world, you vote live via QR code or phone. A shortlist of six nominees is chosen by a BBC panel, an award that is taken seriously by athletes. This year, four of the six nominees attended the ceremony live, with the third-placed English cricketer participating live from New Zealand, where he was playing.
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Sports means sportswith the last 6 winners representing Football/Soccer, Tennis, Formula 1, Cricket, and cycling. Three speed skating winners and even a member of the Royal Family competed at the world level. Looking at the list of past winners, I was shocked to find that track and field was the dominant sport, next best to Formula 1. With eight, our sport with podiums is 53 is the next best football. It was 24 years old. However, Hodgkinson is only the second to win in the last 20 years. When interpreting the results, it should be remembered that this is a direct vote of those who watch the television coverage. it was a postal vote.
It’s definitely a great publication for track and field. Kelly is an attractive young woman, which certainly helps the perception of the sport. In addition to the leading award, there are several awards and it was good to see our sport collect two.
Coach of the year
Trevor Pinter and Jenny Meadows
World sports star
Armand Duplantis
Of course, it’s just a TV show and a popular vote, but it certainly doesn’t do our sport any harm to see Keely Hodgkinson. won, leaving Real Madrid and England football star Jude Bellingham in his wake.The list of previous winners below is a complete history of British athletics success.
Previous Athletics winners
1954 – Christopher Chatway
1955 – Gordon Peary
1963 – Dorothy Hyman
1964 – Mary Rand
1968 – David Hemery
1972 – Mary Peters
1974 – Brendan Foster
1978 – Steve Ovett
1979 – Seb Co
1982 – Daley Thompson
1983 – Steve Cram
1987 – Fatima Whitbread
1991 – Liz McColgan
1993 – Linford Christie
1995 – Jonathan Edwards
2002 – Paula Radcliffe
2004 – Kelly Holmes
2017 – Mo Farah
