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Ennis is an amazing price. Delighted to see her drift out. Demands to be backed again.
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Wiggins has to be the other one George.
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Wiggins has to be the other one George.
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beckham :)
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What about Ellie Simmons? Youngest ever MBE.
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In terms of achievement Pirate I totally agree. But I'd make him 10 just to shortlist
What he needs to to of course is win the thing next year and rub it in the noses of our underachieving footballers by taking spoty by a landslide |
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Wellie 200
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Thinking about the edit, probably Haye should be a similar price
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George, I don't think the public realise how big an achievement it was for Wiggo to do what he did in the Tour - and for that matter Cavendish as well. I think in countries like France, Spain and Italy Cav would win by a mile if he was of that nationality for the Tour stages he won this year.
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Cav number 1 in Pro Cycling magazine's Top 50 riders of 2009 I might add. That's number 1 cyclist in the world.
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He'd certainly be closer. Rank outsider here. We are starting to 'get' cycling, but only a tour winner or a Scot with 3 golds could take home spoty
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There are still rumours of Sky buying out Wiggin's contract at Garmin.
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£200 matched on david haye top 3 at 1.3 :^0
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think cav is a decent price for top 3 at 5/1. when they show him winning all those stages it'll get the juices going imo
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Bit of a twunt tho innit?
Plus the footage is not BBC owned. I just can't see a good edit in it. People like Ennis, Tweddle and Murray will have far better |
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And again, the British reaction is 'he didn't win the race, did he?'
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Wellie 550. Simmons 500.
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will the british realise he (cavendish) didnt win the race :^0
if they show him winning all them stages ? |
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lol Donny yep
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Murray will not bother turning up(nap)
He's even missing xmas in Dunblane and going direct to Australia for the Open. The guy is 100% and doesn't crave the spotlight. |
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the Sunday Times Sportwoman of the year comp obviously doesnt count for much in this one..
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The beeb would love a paralympian to win SPOTY! And can you imagine the meltdown on here?
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Surely the value is in the place market - Ellie and Wellie both at 30 for example - rather than expecting a shock winner? The top 3 looks pretty open to me, with much depending on the edit among a group of relatively low-key performances.
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button 1.1 top 3 :)
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donny osmond 09 Nov 19:04
button 1.1 top 3 FREE MUNNY innit. |
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haye was on the One Show and was on great form.
if somehow he got a decent edit he could win this because he's great tv. rumours of 800,000 sign ups for the fight as well...if that was true that would be a major base. |
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Is anyone going to own up to backing Ryan Giggs?
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Ah I see Facebook campaign ffs...give me strength.
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Rooney yes, Giggs no, Clyde? ;-)
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Yes, I've backed Giggs as a cover bet. What I'd like to know is DO YOU THINK BUTTON is a vert to make the top 3??
Button, won when his CAR was technically superior. After a few weeks other teams caught them up technically and Button soon became mediocre again. Can't see him winning because his car was ahead of the game in those first few weeks. Limping over the line hardly ignited the viewers. In terms of achievement, Haye's win is surely the most unlikely and he prepared well then executed to his plan. Lennox won SPOTY when he became world champ too, so must have a chance. Andy Murray, six titles and also beating Rafa and Fed this year. If he wins in London it might just tip it in his favour. As for the rest of the outsiders, yes the edit on the night will decide that and Ennis has to get the best edit.... so she could gatecrash top 3. Might even win it with the right edit! |
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Still Button vs Ennis for me.
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Lennox Lewis also got beat by Greg Rusedski finishing runner up in the US Open. Haye beat a useless champion but his timing is perfect and in the eyes of the public it looks a lot better than it was. I wouldn't rule him out. It's a good year in depth but a weak year for outstanding mainstream personalities achievements, Button apart, but there is a cloud over Button. The vote will be split many ways mind which favours the petrol head. Part of me thinks Button is a big price but I'd rather get a guage of the publics feeling about his chances when the shortlist is announced at the end of this month.
I've only laid people who won't make the shortlist...Giggs Flintoff Broad Ferguson Wiggins for example and a few others. The only lays I wouldn't be very surprised if they made the shortlist is McCoy and mebbe Phil Taylor (who is a sporting legend imo). |
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Regarding Ennis I can't get it out of my head that in 2005 when Paula Radcliffe won the World Athletics Marathon she failed to make the public shortlist of six (as opposed to the media shortlist now used) The shortlist was Flintoff, Macarthur, Gerrard, Vaughan, Murray!! and Hatton that year.
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This is not a market that I usually monitor, but isn't Strauss a largish price for an ashes winning captain who also played fantastic? Cricketers go hand in hand with the BBC voters. I realise the beeb didn't have live coverage and it was in the Summer, but memories will be jogged.
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Out of all our world champions
Ennis, Idowu, Spofforth, Tancock, Tweddle, Button, Daley, Haye, Khan, Froch, Higgins and Taylor only one of them is dominant, and utterly dominant at that, in their sport. Al the others would have likely got beat on another day against the best challlengers around. |
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Wellie ?
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I hope not, I have just laid that at 1,000.0
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Of the 80 people on the list, I'd never heard of 2 of them...Samantha Davies and Chrissie Wellington. I've just read about her achievements on Wikipedia and they are remarkable. She won't win because hardly anyone will have heard of her but she is fully deserving. I wouldn't be surprised if she makes the shortlist now tbh.
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This was the bit that really astounded me......
Later that month, she retained her title at the long-distance Alpe d'Huez event, finishing second overall, more than 25 minutes ahead of second-placed Aléxandra Louison and only 1 minute 23 seconds behind the winning man, Marcus Ornellas.[36] She recorded the fastest overall time for the ascent of les 21 virages.....i.e. faster than all the male competitors... that must be unique in sport. |
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Unfortunately in a sport largely ignored by the Beeb. Even appears in googling 606 bbc comments that no coverage at the time was given in sports pages.
However still dont think there deserves to be such a huge mismatch between Wellie and Ennis prices - it was a public vote after all shes already won in beating Ennis. Can whoever selects top 10 ignore this ? They did in 2007 with Pendleton. had a cheeky tenner at 1000 in any case hoping its not repeated. |