#SPOTY16 - a long way to equality
Last year I blogged about the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, and bemoaned the lack of female representation. It would have been nice to come back a year on and say that everything I moaned about last year had been addressed.
I can't do that.
Last year, Andy Murray won. This year, Andy Murray won.
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Sports Personality of the Year: the show
It's Sports Personality of the Year night! I'm sort-of live-blogging this - sort-of in the sense that it'll be published after the night's over. Let's see what prominence female athletes get ...
The opening montage wasn't hopeful, with only a few women featured, including of course Jessica Ennis-Hill and . . .
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Sports Personality of the Year
It's December, so that can only mean one thing in the sporting world: it's time for SPOTY!
Yes, the BBC has announced its shortlist for the Sports Personality of the Year Award, that rather awkward concept which pits athletes from minority sports against global names, and provokes an annual argument over whether we're . . .
