Sports Personality of the Year

ith a panel of over 30 leading sport experts representing a broad body of sports editors from acknowledged UK-based publications selecting the nominees based on a far-reaching criteria...."

   That's an interesting point which prompted me to employ Google to discover this:- "....with a panel of over 30 leading sport experts representing a broad body of sports editors from acknowledged UK-based publications selecting the nominees based on a far-reaching criteria...."
So, "experts" are selecting the options for the masses to vote for. The first bit sounds fair enough.......
I see now that the word 'Television' has been dropped from the title (don't know when that happened) - but it always provided the clue as to why participants in 'minority' sports, perhaps too difficult/expensive to televise, hadn't got a hope.

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Xpletive Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 28 Jan 06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 320	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xpletive Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Sports Personality of the Year Posted: 14 Dec 09 at 7:54pm
	That's an interesting point which prompted me to employ Google to discover this:- "....with a panel of over 30 leading sport experts representing a broad body of sports editors from acknowledged UK-based publications selecting the nominees based on a far-reaching criteria...." So, "experts" are selecting the options for the masses to vote for. The first bit sounds fair enough....... I see now that the word 'Television' has been dropped from the title (don't know when that happened) - but it always provided the clue as to why participants in 'minority' sports, perhaps too difficult/expensive to televise, hadn't got a hope. Edited by Xpletive