Sports personality of the year

[MANTIS01]

When I look at Jessica Ennis I see someone who could happily drill us all into the carpet without breaking sweat. We would be left twitching & dribbling on the floor while she would just spring up looking for a PB in the next event. That kind of explosive power is appealing. Having said that I been watching Andrew Flintoff's fight series this week and saw his wife for the first time. Holy momma, hope nothing happens to Freddy tongiht.

[Tal]

So....sports personality of the year then...

[kinboshi]

So....sports personality of the year then...

Freddie's wife?

[bobAlike]

So....sports personality of the year then...

Freddie's wife?

MANTIS FTW, Ennis to come second

[smashedagain]

So....sports personality of the year then...

Freddie's wife?

MANTIS FTW, Ennis to come second

ha ha. What's Wiggins done to his trade mark sideys，I was growing mine in celebration but tbh they turned out to look like lead character in the cult 79/80's show "Monkey"

[Graham C]

Msn poll of 109,000 votes has Wiggins on top followed by Ennis, then Farrah.  Obviously it's not the real thing but 109k votes is a decent enough sample.  Not sure it's worth backing Ennis without Wiggins as Mo is pretty close. 

[kukushkin88]

Msn poll of 109,000 votes has Wiggins on top followed by Ennis, then Farrah.  Obviously it's not the real thing but 109k votes is a decent enough sample.  Not sure it's worth backing Ennis without Wiggins as Mo is pretty close. 

Surely this just suggests a max bet on Ennis, can´t see why you´d want to be on the without Wiggins market, if the above is decently representative then Ennis is a great bet.

[The Camel]

I'm still not convinced Wiggins is a shoo in.

And if these figures are representative, it backs my theory up.

If it's close I think athletes will have the edge.

Come the night it will be an Olympics love in and I'm assuming (not certain though) that the BBC won't have footage of the Tour.

[AndrewT]

Wiggins won just as many of those shiny gold medals as Ennis.

On top of that there was the jaunt in France.

[The Camel]

Wiggins won just as many of those shiny gold medals as Ennis.

On top of that there was the jaunt in France.

Yeah, but he won his gold in a boring event.

Might as well have been sailing or archery.

[Tal]

I think the point The Camel is making is the general public are complete idiots and get distracted easily by shiny things, rather than worrying about whether their answer is actually correct.

This being the case, he makes a valid point. Ennis won one event. Yes it was in seven parts but all her opponents had to do the same. Not all of Farah's ran both 5 and 10k. Wiggins won the TdF and the Olympic TT. Murray won Olympic gold at Wimbledon, placed highest in Wimbledon in however many years and won the US Open.

And still Ennis might win.

[Jon MW]

I think the point The Camel is making is the general public are complete idiots and get distracted easily by shiny things, rather than worrying about whether their answer is actually correct.

This being the case, he makes a valid point. Ennis won one event. Yes it was in seven parts but all her opponents had to do the same. Not all of Farah's ran both 5 and 10k. Wiggins won the TdF and the Olympic TT. Murray won Olympic gold at Wimbledon, placed highest in Wimbledon in however many years and won the US Open.

And still Ennis might win.

Ennis was in all the adverts and the BBC talked a lot about her - and the general public are complete idiots, so definitely might be worth a bet.

[kukushkin88]

I think the point The Camel is making is the general public are complete idiots and get distracted easily by shiny things, rather than worrying about whether their answer is actually correct.

This being the case, he makes a valid point. Ennis won one event. Yes it was in seven parts but all her opponents had to do the same. Not all of Farah's ran both 5 and 10k. Wiggins won the TdF and the Olympic TT. Murray won Olympic gold at Wimbledon, placed highest in Wimbledon in however many years and won the US Open.

And still Ennis might win.

Ennis was in all the adverts and the BBC talked a lot about her - and the general public are complete idiots, so definitely might be worth a bet.

I´m a member of the general public and if I was to vote it would be for Ennis :-).

[outragous76]

The problem with wiggins is he just isn't likeable, where as Ennis and farah have great public draw. For me, the only thing keeping wiggins up top is the fact that Ennis and farah steal each others votes!

[DaveShoelace]

I am also leaning towards Ennis and Farah, however one thing I am still wondering about the voting demographic. Are we sure it is made up of idiots in the general public, because if so, Im really surprised Tony McCoy won it in 2010 with 40% of the vote. I know it was a really weak year and this year the country is on a real high with Olympic fever, but surely most of the general public didnt even know who McCoy was?

This was the voting, interesting Ennis made 3rd that year:

1. Tony McCoy 293,152 (41.98%)
2. Phil Taylor 72,095 (10.33)
3. Jessica Ennis 62,953 (9.02)
4. Lee Westwood 58,640 (8.4)
5. Graeme McDowell 52,108 (7.46)
6. Tom Daley 50,763 (7.27%)
7. Mark Cavendish 44,170 (6.33)
8. Amy Williams 43,056 (6.17)
9. Graeme Swann 13,767 (1.97)
10. David Haye 7,538 (1.08)