SPOTY 2012

[Colly]

Or Muambas rescuers.

Or possibly the Society for Black Lawyers, who for some reason are the moral authority of everything football judging by Sky quoting their comments on the current anti-Semitism story.

Edited November 27, 2012 by Colly

[lanky316]

Young Sports Personality = Frankel. He's only four and is the best that ever lived..

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

My vote for Sports Personality of the Year is.....

Ben Ainslie or Nicola Adams.

Not expecting that huh! What Wiggins did for British cycling by winning the Tour de France was ridiculously amazing. Huge, massive. It's just a shame that I've never liked the guy.

[METALMAN]

Unsung Hero will be the London 2012 volunteers, I think.

Except nobody ever shuts up about them!

I want Ennis or Murray to win. Don't give a toss about anyone else.

[Adam]

Is it just the main award we get to vote on?

I'd love to see David Rudisha win Overseas SPOTY.

[Lineker]

The 10 contenders shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2012 award have been announced.

Jessica-Jane Applegate, Olivia Breen, Josef Craig, Kyle Edmund and Georgia Hall are all included.

Quillan Isidore, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, Saskia Sills, Rebecca Tunney and Kimberley Woods make up the list of contenders, who all had to be aged 16 or under on 1 January 2012.

Past winners include Tom Daley in 2007, 2009 and 2010 and Wayne Rooney in 2002.

Last year's winner was golfer Lauren Taylor. She claimed the award after becoming the youngest winner of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, which she took in June 2011.

Applegate is also 16 years old. The Norfolk-born swimmer won gold at the Paralympics in London after setting a new Games record in the 200m Freestyle S14 final.

Breen, 16, was part of the women's T35/38 4x100m relay team which picked up Paralympic bronze in London this summer.

Fifteen-year-old swimmer Craig was crowned the youngest Paralympic gold medallist at London 2012, after smashing his own world record in the 400m freestyle S7 final.

Tennis player Edmund, 17, is the 2012 US Open boys' doubles champion. He also reached the quarter-finals of both the French and Australian Open this season.

Golfer Hall is the number one amateur European female golfer and the 16-year-old is ranked fourth in the world.

Isidore, 16, is a BMX world champion in his age category after an impressive display at the UCI BMX World Championships in Birmingham in May.

At 17, O'Connor was the youngest swimmer competing for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. She formed part of the women's 4x100m medley relay team which went on to make the final.

Windsurfer Sills is a multiple youth world champion in sailing. The 17-year-old picked up European and national titles in 2012.

Sixteen-year-old Tunney was the youngest member to represent Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics and is a British all-round gymnastics champion.

Woods , 17, is an Under-23 world champion in the K1W team event of canoe slalom, as well as a bronze medal winner in the C1 women's event.

The shortlist was drawn up from nominations made by a panel of judges chaired by BBC Sport's John Inverdale.

As well as compiling the shortlist, the panel choose their top three and their winner by secret ballot.

The top three will be announced mid-December and the winner will be announced live at BBC Sports Personality of the Year, taking place at ExCel in London on Sunday, 16 December.

For voting criteria on all the Awards, further information and updates visit bbc.co.uk/sportspersonality.

Past winners of the award

• 2011 - Lauren Taylor
  
• 2010 - Tom Daley
  
• 2009 - Tom Daley
  
• 2008 - Eleanor Simmonds
  
• 2007 - Tom Daley
  
• 2006 - Theo Walcott
  
• 2005 - Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
  
• 2004 - Andy Murray
  
• 2003 - Kate Haywood
  
• 2002 - Wayne Rooney
  
• 2001 - Amy Spencer

[Adam]

I'm aware of a grand total of one of them. Which I guess is not too surprising.

Kyle Edmund for the win!

[Lineker]

London 2012 chief Lord Coe will be awarded the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sports Personality show.

He led the successful bid to host the Olympics and oversaw a memorable Games as chairman of organisers Locog.

Coe, a 1500m Olympic gold medallist in 1980 and 1984, was the event's "head and heart", according to UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

The 56-year-old joins previous lifetime award recipients such as Pele, Bjorn Borg and Sir Steve Redgrave.

Coe is the first winner of the prize from an athletics background since the award became a regular honour in 2001.

In November, he was elected unopposed as new chairman of the British Olympic Association.

When known simply as Sebastian Coe, he won the main Sports Personality award in 1979 after setting three world records in the space of 41 days.

Coe was born in London but spent his teenage years in Sheffield, where his father Peter was his running coach.

His athletics career, which also yielded two 800m Olympic silver medals, was part of a golden era for British middle-distance running as he shared engaging battles with rivals Steve Ovett and Steve Cram.

Following retirement from the track, Coe was a Conservative MP from 1992 to 1997.

He then led London's bid for the Olympics and Paralympics, helping the outsiders to win the race in 2005 ahead of favourites Paris.

Coe spoke of legacy and wanted to deliver an event which would help transform east London, leaving a sporting imprint for Britain to build on.

While there were complaints over ticketing and empty seats at some venues, the promises were largely delivered.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge declared himself "relieved and happy", and praised his hosts after the Games.

"These were athletes' Games, the village was fantastic, the venues were state-of-the-art and well run, you had a fantastic public, and the volunteers are marvellous," he said.

Coe took great pride in the way Britain embraced the Games, as evidenced by his Paralympics closing speech.

"There are some famous words you can find stamped on the bottom of a product. Words, that when you read them, you know mean high quality, mean skill, mean creativity," he said.

"We have stamped those words on the Olympic and Paralympic Games of London 2012.

"London 2012. Made in Britain."

[therockbox]

oh look, Emeli Sande's on the BBC again.

seriously, who has she sucked off?

[therockbox]

Beckham on stage.

ooh he card read good.

[Matt]

You know what's both awesome and sad? The fact that this year there are a good 15 or so people that could have won the main award in another year. You can't say any of the nominees haven't achieved something remarkable this year and beyond that there are at least a few others who've done something remarkable. I mean, simply the fact that at least one person who has won double Olympic/Paralympic gold this year will miss out on being in the top 3 says something.

[therockbox]

Wiggins (Y)

[brenchill]

Paul Weller wins.

[Matt]

JEnnis is now tied with Sally Gunnall for coming in the top three the most times [3] without winning. Hopefully she can win it in the next couple of years, her career deserves it really.

[brenchill]

Back to footballers and cricketers next year, I'm afraid.

[Adam]

You know what's both awesome and sad? The fact that this year there are a good 15 or so people that could have won the main award in another year. You can't say any of the nominees haven't achieved something remarkable this year and beyond that there are at least a few others who've done something remarkable. I mean, simply the fact that at least one person who has won double Olympic/Paralympic gold this year will miss out on being in the top 3 says something.

Nevermind the top three, some didn't even get nominated! Totally agree with that. The likes of Laura Trott, Vicky Pendleton, Charlotte Equestrianladywhosenameicannotspell, Greg Rutherford. All could have been up there.

Delighted Wiggins won, he was my pick and to be honest I felt he and Murray just about deserved the edge for doing what everyone else did and win Olympic gold plus reaching the pinnacle of their sports in their own right. Any of the 12 could've won and I'd be happy, but that was a great top 3.

And yeah, I'd be surprised if Ennis ever won it now to be honest. Unless you has a stormer at the World Championships or something in a year when nobody else does anything. Would be great for her to win one though.

[METALMAN]

Wiggins is a great athlete but he's not a nice man.

[Matt]

Back to footballers and cricketers next year, I'm afraid.

Hopefully we do well in the World Championships, plus there's always a chance of the golfers/Murray doing well. Just as long as they don't give it to Paul Scholes for no good reason, it'll be fine.

[Chris2K]

Wiggins is a great athlete but he's not a nice man.

Hmm, so I'm not the only one who thinks that? I have no problem with him winning the award as his success is unparalleled for this country, but there's something about him that makes me not like him.

[Adam]

Admit it. The sideburns make you jealous don't they?