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Anyone who admires what he's achieved, maybe they just don't like him much as a person? I seem to vaguely remember there was some negative publicity about him after the London Olympics when he got something like £250,000 for running half a marathon or something? I think it was a whole marathon but he only ran half of it ..? And there were things about him doing anything for money ... ? I remember he ran some race earlier this year and on the radio they were on about that, about some of the things he's done for the money not going down well ... something like that, I was only half listening!
I think what really has hurt him is the claims made against his coach and the fact him winning has become rather routine now. His story isn't what it used to be. And that's what win votes with SPOTY... story. It's never really been decided by pure sporting achievement. |
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Final full results:
1. Andy Murray - 247,419 2. Alistair Brownlee - 121,665 3. Nick Skelton - 109,197 4. Mo Farah - 54,476 5. Sophie Christiansen - 37,284 6. Kate Richardson-Walsh - 34,604 7. Max Whitlock - 32,858 8. Laura Kenny - 31,781 9. Jamie Vardy - 25,020 10. Jason Kenny - 12,376 11. Adam Peaty - 11,129 12. Gareth Bale - 10,786 13. Nicola Adams - 7,812 14. Kadeena Cox - 5,574 15. Dame Sarah Storey - 3,580 16. Danny Willett - 2,227 |
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Sophie getting fifth is a tremendous result for her, and for the Paralympic movement.
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Andy got 361,446 last year and that was mostly for a team win in the Davis Cup.
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Oh sorry I thought you meant in the room with him like Lennox.
There was quite a big blurb on it before the awards were announced because three of them weren't there.
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Was that the same age of Linford Christie when he left Jamaica and moved here
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Final full results:
1. Andy Murray - 247,419 2. Alistair Brownlee - 121,665 3. Nick Skelton - 109,197 4. Mo Farah - 54,476 5. Sophie Christiansen - 37,284 6. Kate Richardson-Walsh - 34,604 7. Max Whitlock - 32,858 8. Laura Kenny - 31,781 9. Jamie Vardy - 25,020 10. Jason Kenny - 12,376 11. Adam Peaty - 11,129 12. Gareth Bale - 10,786 13. Nicola Adams - 7,812 14. Kadeena Cox - 5,574 15. Dame Sarah Storey - 3,580 16. Danny Willett - 2,227 Top 3 were pretty clear of the field there. Sophie and Kate placed much higher than I would have expected, good for them!
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Top 3 way clear. Great to see Sophie and Kate finishing so high up
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Andy got 361,446 last year and that was mostly for a team win in the Davis Cup.
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Almost. A quick google tells us he was 7 when he left Jamaica.
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on a side note, would like to point and laugh at the telegraph who claimed earlier in the week Bale was likely to place in the top 3....
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tougher competition this year though.
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on a side note, would like to point and laugh at the telegraph who claimed earlier in the week Bale was likely to place in the top 3....
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tougher competition this year though.
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And a lot fewer votes for some reason. Maybe people assumed Murray's easy victory.
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Was that the same age of Linford Christie when he left Jamaica and moved here
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Andy Murray is our greatest sportsman at present - thoroughly deserved.
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Linford Christie isn't a muslim though.
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Linford Christie isn't a muslim though.
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what was the total vote overall last year? I remember Murray had a huge victory margin, but can't recall the vote total.
2016: 747,788 Murray got 33.1% of the vote this year compared to 35.8% last year. |
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Sadly that is the real reason. Too many bigoted, ignorant idiots out there who cannot see past what the Daily Mail/Sun tell them.
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2015: 1,009,471
2016: 747,788 Murray got 33.1% of the vote this year compared to 35.8% last.
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He still got more than double the votes Brownlee got.
) and finally these last couple of years it seems like people finally appreciate him.
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Final full results:
1. Andy Murray - 247,419 2. Alistair Brownlee - 121,665 3. Nick Skelton - 109,197 4. Mo Farah - 54,476 5. Sophie Christiansen - 37,284 6. Kate Richardson-Walsh - 34,604 7. Max Whitlock - 32,858 8. Laura Kenny - 31,781 9. Jamie Vardy - 25,020 10. Jason Kenny - 12,376 11. Adam Peaty - 11,129 12. Gareth Bale - 10,786 13. Nicola Adams - 7,812 14. Kadeena Cox - 5,574 15. Dame Sarah Storey - 3,580 16. Danny Willett - 2,227 Surprised Laura is so low and Max didn't finish over 5th and 6th. Peaty should have added the other Breaststroke event and will have been higher. Had the been there, Frrome and Frampton would have been 30,000 votes, I would have thought. |
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yep, its amazing how popular he is now, all those years on this forum defending him from people saying some pretty awful things about him (including one poster suggesting it was shame Hamilton didn't have one more bullet
) and finally these last couple of years it seems like people finally appreciate him. |
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There was quite a big blurb on it before the awards were announced because three of them weren't there.

) and finally these last couple of years it seems like people finally appreciate him.