Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“so you have spent the last 4 months saying that in an olympic year, and with the level of achievement we saw for team GB in Rio, that success there should be the deciding factor for SPOTY nominations. yet here you are now wanting to give the team award to a team that had zero connection to the Olympics
why am i not surprised ...”
The Paralympics and the Olympics saw some unbelievable feats, and the athletes that did very well there deserve the recognition that should come their way, that much I do believe fully in.
So many people there achieved so much, that it is very hard indeed to narrow it down.
Where Leicester are concerned though, I do have to say a huge congratulations to them, as it was such a huge feat what they did, that it is not a turn around or anything like that, to say that they deserve the team award, what they did was over achieve to such a degree that they are now paying the consequences for it.
One has to put aside any perceived or not bias towards Rio and say that their achievements were so great, that unfortunately the ladies hockey side comes in at number two, and the male English rugby union side comes in at third.
It is just about recognising a team for their achievements in the face of such stiff competition.