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The award for sports personality of the year goes to heroic failure



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Published Date: 03 December 2007
By TOM LAPPIN
CHRISTMAS is the time for taking stock of what has been achieved over the year. Which must explain why the suicide statistics lurch upwards in December. The sporting equivalent of this dismaying process is the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year ceremony, which this year threatens to be one interminable litany of heroic failure.
Prohibitive odds-on to win the once-prestigious main award on Sunday is the Formula 1 prodigy Lewis Hamilton. Given that this was his first season in Formula 1, it's difficult not to be impressed. Indeed, unlike previous Formula 1 "personalities" Dam...



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  • Last Updated: 02 December 2007 10:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Tom Lappin
 
 

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