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After a vintage Olympics for GB,  how do we see the awards going ?

My prediction would be

1) Rebecca Adlington (good for Mex's shoe fetish as well)
2) Lewis Hamilton  (these to be reversed if he wins the championship)
3) Chris Hoy
4) Padraig Harrington

Team - Gb Cycling Team
Overseas  Usain Bolt
Young Personality  Theo Walcott ?

Any other thoughts ?

Lifetime award       

Adlington will probably get the majority vote. Rightly so to be fair.

If hamilton wins the f1 he'll get it i'd imagine

Perhaps. Is it a still a public vote? If so I think more will go with the swimmer.

I want Lewis to win so he can bring Nicole

If it were to go to anyone from the olympics i'd have thought hoy would be more of a favourite anyway. And would harrington count, seeing as he isnt british?

This award is a pile of shit.
I can never take an award seriously that is given to Zara Phillips.
Such a good sportswoman in her field that when her horse got sick she had to pull out of the Olympics!!
Maybe Toytown should of got the award!
Using that rational we now have a short list:
Team GB - Bikes
Various running spikes
Lewis Hamiltons Car.
What a joke................. :notworthy:

I haven't watched it since I was a kid. I used to enjoy the Grandstand montage every year.

Should be Hoy. only 1 gold medal away from being britains best ever olympian (redgrave has 5 golds and a bronze to Hoys 4 golds and a silver)

Pedraig Harrington is Irish isnt he?

Fair point about Harrington folks.

Nev I can't believe you putt that, I thought you wood have known better, you left yourself a bit open for attack there.

just leave fore glasgow now Rob, that was dire!

Bir-die made an honest mistake.

F
Fell into the trap. I'm off home for a sand wedge.

Thereby leaving the field clear for Hoy in 2012 when he overtakes Redgrave.

I'm hooked on these puns, hope you have a nice slice in that sand-wedge of yours and not a bogie. 

Dame Rebecca should win it regardless of what Lewis does ... 2 Golds at the Olympics only happen every 4 years ( I hope she brings fellow olympic long distance swimmer Cassie Patten with her - my fave (the girl who nicknamed her "Dame"))

A nice cup of tee to follow.

I would say what about Ben Ainslie?  But a sport where a(u)gusta wind can be all the difference is not worthy a BBC SP winner.

He could have a scone with some cream. He'd better leave now though as it's a fairway to Devon.

hoy won three golds at this olympics

leave now!

 :poofs:

I think you may have thought about this too much.

ha ha!!

Hoy or Hamilton for me.  Adlington did fab but she got 2, Hoy got three.

Im hoping Hamilton wins F1 so its him though.

Murray must be up there somewhere also I'd have thought.

Hamiltion shouldn't even come close even if he wins. Hoy all the way for me. Even if Lewis is a good sportsman. It should be about personality though and it never is hence why i'm going for Hoy.

Gotta be Hoy I'd have thought. Mind you, since Zara fucking Phillips won it I will never make predictions again.

Winning the F1 title in only your second season surely is worthy enough for a winner?

Olympics goes in front of F1 in my book.

As per usual I won't watch it and will probably forget to find out who won it.

Harrington would be allowed to win it, you don't have to be a Brit.

Over winning 3 gold medals in one Olympics (not been done for years by a Brit) and making it 5 golds in total? I'd have thought not.

I did a massive reply to that message and it's disappeared!

Youngest ever F1 champion too if he does it.

All of Scotland will vote for Hoy. He'd be a great winner too in my opinion.

Don't they do an overseas one?

Yes they do. But I still think you can be in the main one even if you're foreign.

Padraig isn't on Corals' list for the main prize so I can only assume he is only up for the Overseas prize?

I'm pretty sure non-Britons can't be considered for the main prize. Greg Rusedski was considered British when he won it... Yes, Greg Rusedski won it!

Dettori was up one year though? I'm sure.

Hoy for me... he's been a bit good for years. Plus i would pick Rebecca Romero over Addlington, as i'm pretty sure she has 2 Olympic medals in 2 different sports, or something daft.

meh. no-one gives a fuck about 95% of the sports at the olmypics apart from a 1 month period every 4 years. if Hamilton wins the title the award should be his. 

Put Hamilton in a Red Bull car and see how many fucking races he wins then.

Its all about technology.....in that so called sport........darts has more skill.

How come he's got so much more points than kovelienen then?

Thats the same for the cycling surely? put hoy on the afghans bikes see how he does

Don: You are correct.

Any sport they relies on Technology or requires a judgement (ice skating, diving etc etc) is shite!

I was glad they didnt let that bloke with bionic legs run - would of opened up a can of worms.

Arent Olympic cycling teams equipment pretty much all the same?

You could say the same of any sport really,  put Messi in a pair of 1920's boots and I'm sure he'll look significantly less fleet footed. Give any modern athlete a 1950's training regime and they'd be shit

And Darts isnt a sport its a pub game.

Golf isnt a sport either..

it is really isnt it.

No............just a very good game.

when do you draw the line between sport and a game though? Football is afterall "only a game"

Anything that doesnt make you sweat whilst doing it (so a hot golf course in Florida doesnt count).

Curry eating it is then.

As is furious wanking

I don't know if you can class the merits of a game/sport on the amount of exercise it takes. I like to think of actually playing it. And whilst I could get a few mates together and kick a ball about, use an old dustbin and child size bat with tennis ball to play cricket, race our bikes up and down the alley (maybe more when I was 8), go to a snooker hall and play a few hour long frames, head down to the pitch and putt, get the chess board out or play mario kart. It's unlikely that we'll get our hands on a couple of F1 cars to drive round a track.

Or have a great big huge fucking stable of horses to compete at the highest level at Show jumping.

Yeah Horse stuff has similar criticisms, although not quite as bad as F1.

Well i see your point but Curry eating hasnt got a deluded following who actually believe its a sport.....unlike Golf, Figure Skating etc etc.

My definition of sport is that:
a) it involves a physical skill; and
b) there is a winner and one or more losers determined by an objective scoring method

So darts is a sport, figure skating isn't, poker and chess aren't because the skill is mental and furious wanking could be if it was based on time or something.

If Wanking was i would of moped up.........no pun intended.

Interesting combination of onanism and motorsport there Flash.

Bollocks. Did you see the margins of victory involved? Chris Hoy would have won the individual sprint at the Olympics on the bike I ride to work. Lewis Hamilton would not win Formula One in my Ford Fiesta.

I'm not putting Hamilton down, I'm just not having anyone suggest Chris Hoy won because of his fucking bike.

I very much doubt that.

But I do get your point. I think all the bikes used in competition at the Olympics are very much similar - unlike F1 cars which have huge difference between the teams/manufacturers.

Yeah, I was exaggerating to make a point, but it's got 700 x 23c tires on it and a 53/12 biggest gear and I don't know how much more he'd need. Sure it weighs a lot more than an Olympic track bike, so he'd be much slower off the mark, but I honestly think Hoy's ability could still see him home. He is a beast.

mopped up!!! :doh:

but you could pop down the go-kart track. Same as having a cheap tennis racquet or a crap pair of football boots, everyone starts out with the basics and moves up. There are very few sports that don't spend a fortune at the highest level.

He'd actually probably be much quicker off the line thanks to the possession of lower ratio gears.

If it was on my bike then when he changed gears it would probably slip and he'd do himself a mischief :(

I'm not sure even I'd claim that he'd have enough time to shift gears and still win. He'd have to go 53/12 all the way, although he's probably got something like 54/11 on his bike, so it'd still be easy for him :-)

Bet that bloke swimmer 'Becky' wins.

Chris Hoy on my old raleigh Bomber...........shift up those Sturmy Archers!!