BBC Sports personality

Why would you take Christmas Day off? Back in his pomp Big Ted used to train on Christmas Day knowing that when push came to shove later in the season he knew he'd trained every day possible, but not all of his rivals had.

Sport should be divided into sport (physical involving aerobic exercise) and recreational (darts, fishing etc.) with recreational always having to give preference to sport and not getting funding. It would encourage a fitter nation as well as sort out the perennial problem of sailors v fishermen!

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I agree A P Mc Coy is a deserving winner but they used to go through all sorts of sports not just Football, Rugby, Golf, Cricket and the 30 seconds they now seem to spend on anything like athletics etc. I can remember 505 and Fireball world champions being mentioned and Jeremy Robinson and Bill Masterman being in the audience amongst other sailors.
If think that very soon BBC will not be able to afford to show any major sports it would be good for them to feature more diverse sports.

Originally posted by s.a.l.t.y Im quite surprised that Ben Ainslie has not come close to winning already. Especially with the amount of work he's done with British sailing over the years, all the medals hes won, and the fact hes been named ISAF World Sailor of the Year a few times aswell. I dont know why sailing seems to come so far under the radar considering we are an island. You would think that this would be the national sport.

Realistically Ben won't get mass media attention/win Sports Personality of the Year/get a knighthood until he's won another medal, as per Steve Redgrave. Very unfair I know, but for whatever reason this country seems fixated by football and to a lesser extent cricket and rugby. Anyone from other sports needs to do something completely remarkable to even register.

Im quite surprised that Ben Ainslie has not come close to winning already. Especially with the amount of work he's done with British sailing over the years, all the medals hes won, and the fact hes been named ISAF World Sailor of the Year a few times aswell. I dont know why sailing seems to come so far under the radar considering we are an island. You would think that this would be the national sport.