Lewis favourite to win BBC gong, but does he deserve it?
Lewis Hamilton was favourite to win last year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year, despite throwing away the world title in his first season in F1. In the end Lewis lost out to Joe Calzaghe, a boxer from Wales who is yet to taste defeat. So, two agonising second places in one year for Lewis - although losing out on the drivers’ title was, we imagine, slightly more galling than losing out to Calzaghe (and at least he didn’t lose out to Zara Phillips).
This time around, with the world title tucked into his racing overalls, Lewis is an even stronger favourite to win the Beeb’s annual award. But there is even stiffer competition in 2008, in the form of several gold medal-winning Olympians from Beijing (Chris Hoy and Rebecca Adlington offer the biggest threat), not to mention tennis star Andy Murray, who has had a fine year (see the full short-list here).
Does Lewis deserve to win the award? Does he have more personality than a daffy blonde swimmer or a dour Scottish tennis player? What constitutes personality anyway? So many questions, which you can answer by leaving a witty comment. If you can’t be arsed to leave a comment, you can just vote…
5 responses so far
1 A Ludlow // Dec 2, 2008 at 11:54 am
No brainer really. He should have won last year too.
2 Krzysztof // Dec 3, 2008 at 1:18 pm
You are right Ludlow. You are no brainer.
3 Dave // Dec 10, 2008 at 12:43 pm
We all seem to forget that Massa would have won the F1 championship if only his pit crew had not signalled for him to leave the pit before his refuelling had been completed !
4 Krzysztof // Dec 10, 2008 at 3:59 pm
You are right Dave, not to mention that Massa’s engine blew up 3 laps before finish when he was a race leader in Hungary. Massa had a huge bad luck this year.
5 Slyman // Dec 14, 2008 at 8:57 am
Lewis has worked really hard to get where he is now, but not as hard as the olympic athletes I think Chris Hoy has a good personallity coupled with a few gold medals, so he should be 1st then Rebecca Adlington 2nd with lewis 3rd, Joe had his last year and Murray ha more to prove.