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Now on BBC one and BBC one HD, some of the greatest names in sport | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
arrive on the red carpet to celebrate another incredible 12 | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
months of sporting achievement, on this, its landmark 60th year. It is | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
live to Leeds as you decide who will be crowned BBC Sports Personality of | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
the Year, 2013. Probably more nervous here than I have been in the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
ring. Not sure I can speak actually. Very special. It is a great honour. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Thank you very much to everyone. Stars. Such a big honour to even | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
hold this trophy. Heroes. It is a great privilege. It really has made | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
my year. Winners. I would just like to thank everybody who voted. I | :00:57. | :01:10. | |
cannot tell you how honoured I am. Etched in time forever. It is an | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
anniversary year. 60 years of all this. England are the world | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
champions. She has done it! We have witnessed history. I think this is | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
the trophy that every sports man or woman longs to win. He has done it. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Awarded for greatness. The winner. I've seen dreams come true. Amazing. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Like 1966. They think it's all over, it is now. Botham in 81. I remember | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
him. Get in! And I remember him. And of course, 2012, a year we will | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
never forget. Here he comes, Wiggins. Impossible to follow that, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
so they said. Well, here's the thing. We did. Welcome to the year | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
that couldn't be, but has been. Welcome to the BBC Sports | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Personality of the Year 2013. # Know I've done wrong. | :02:03. | :02:18. | |
# I left your heart torn. # Is that what devils do? | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
# Took you so low. # Where only fools go. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
# I shook the angel in you. # Now I'm rising from the ground. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
# Rising up to you. # Filled with all the strength I | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
found. # There's nothing I can't do! | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Wales storming to the title. They are the champions of Europe. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Unbeatable. You have done it in style. | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
# It's unforgivable. # I stole and burnt your soul. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
# Is that what demons do? # They rule the worst of me. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
# Destroy everything. # They bring down angels like you. | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
# Now I'm rising from the ground. # Rising up to you. | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
# Filled with all the strength I found. | :03:51. | :03:51. | |
# There's nothing I can't do! # I need to know now, know now, can | :03:52. | :04:04. | |
you love me again? # I need to know now, know now, can | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
you love me again? The waiting is over. What a | :04:08. | :04:20. | |
fantastic victory. She's got it, a new national record! Justin Rose has | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
won the US Open. The comeback of 2013. Victory for Cockroft, the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
sprint double. Another 100 to Ian Bell. He has been prolific. Leigh | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Halfpenny, over she goes. What a game. What a hero! What a sportsman! | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
What a jockey! Mo Farah is going to get there again. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
# I told you once again. # Do this again, do this again, oh | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
no. # I told you once again. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
# Do this again, do this again, oh no. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
The Challenge Cup final win. Wigan have the double. Watson's header has | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
won the FA Cup final for Wigan Athletic. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
# I need to know now, know now, can you love me again? And Van Persie | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
kicks at home. Manchester United, champions. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
# Can you love me again? # Can you love me again? | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, Yorkshire's very own John Newman. | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
And now please welcome your hosts for tonight's very special | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
evening... Gabby Logan, Clare Balding and Gary Lineker. | :06:08. | :06:51. | |
Thank you very much. Good evening and welcome to the BBC Sports | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
Personality of the Year 2013. Hello, Leeds. Hello. As you can see and | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
hear, there's 12,000 packed into the First Direct Arena here in this | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
historic sporting city. It is a privilege to be joined by each and | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
every one of you. And it's a big hello too to all of you at home, as | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
we look back on another incredible 12 months, as well as celebrate the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
show's 60th year. Among the many fans here tonight, we are also in | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
the company of sporting royalty. There are hundreds of sportsmen and | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
women who have inspired us all. Achieving their personal goals, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
excelling in their fields, and making this year so very special. | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
Welcome, all. Between now and 10pm here on BBC One, we'll relive all | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
those special moments of the past 12 months. Those moments that made you | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
sing, shout, laugh and we'll see them all along the way, as well as | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
give out eight awards with the highlight being the crowning of BBC | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
Sports Personality of the Year for 2013. It should be some night as | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
always but this year is extra special as the show celebrates its | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
landmark 60th year. Before we remind you of the ten contenders, let's | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
celebrate many of our esteemed pass contenders who are here tonight. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, please show your appreciation for members of our | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Sports Personality of the Year hall of fame. Swimmer Anita Lonsborough, | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
motor racing's John Surtees and show jumper David Broome... | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
APPLAUSE Sprinter Dorothy Hyman, hurdler | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
David Hemery and tennis player Ann Jones... | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
APPLAUSE Pentathlete Dame Mary Peters, racing | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
driver Sir Jackie Stewart, and athlete Brendan Foster... | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
APPLAUSE Athletes Steve Cram and Liz | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
McColgan, boxer Barry McGuigan... APPLAUSE | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
Triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, athlete Paula Radcliffe and boxer | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
Joe Calzaghe. And please give it up for cyclist | :09:43. | :10:03. | |
Sir Chris Hoy, footballer Ryan Giggs, racing's AP McCoy... And, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
finally, last year's winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins. | :10:10. | :10:21. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, our Sports Personality of the Year winners. | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
What has having this award meant for you? You realise what it meant last | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
year and be in the company of some of the country 's greatest sportsmen | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and women is an absolute privilege. I think it is a very special night. | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
To see so many of the past winners, it is incredible. Never lets us down | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
with the suit. Bradley and our esteemed group have all experienced | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
the joy of winning this magnificent trophy. But which name will be on it | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
for 2013? Well, that's up to you. There are many ways you can vote for | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
your favourite, one of which is online via the BBC Sport website. To | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
do that, you first need to register, so go to the website at | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
bbc.co.uk/sport and you can register right now. Or you can also vote by | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
using your mobile or landline. But, just to warn you, voting does not | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
open now. It will later in the show after we have seen all ten | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
contenders. Here are the contenders and one of the stars will be crowned | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2013. | :11:35. | :13:32. | |
Here are the contenders and one of the stars will be crowned BBC Sport | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
personality of the year for 2013. Voting will open later in the show. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Calls cost 15 pence from a mobile and BT landline. So, let's start | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
with Rugby Union and the Six Nations. As ever, there was pride, | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
there was passion. But, in the end, it all came down to a winner takes | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
all clash in Cardiff between those two old flames, Wales and England. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Welcome to the madness. England looking for the Grand Slam. Wales | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
with a chance to take the title. Over she goes. England are on the | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
ball. You can hear the crunch up here. | :14:04. | :14:19. | |
Tackling is absolutely brutal. I don't know about you, I am out of | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
breath watching this. Oh, my word, what a game. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
The first try of the game. The lead stretches out. He knew it. He turned | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
away. Oh, my word. Sam Warburton storms away! Wales are storming to | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
the title. And it is turning into a rout. The title goes to Wales. I | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
need a lie down. What a win for Wales. Back-to-back | :14:52. | :15:06. | |
Six Nations' success with Leigh Halfpenny the star player. In the | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
summer he enjoyed another Man of the Series experience, as he inspired | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the British and Irish Lions to a roaring success Down Under. Putting | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
on the Lion's jersey, it is four countries coming together as one. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
The history that has gone before it, it was incredible. What I always | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
dreamed of. For a men who is not that big, he is incredibly brave. He | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
has been one of the best players in the world this year. He has had the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
responsibility to do some goal kicking. He nailed everything. This | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
is where it all started for me. When I'm about to do the kick, this is | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
where I'm picturing myself. It allows me to block out the crowd. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
I'm imagining it being quiet. No-one around, just me, and the ball, of | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
course. I see it as a privilege. The mandate I was given was to do | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
whatever it takes to win a Lions Series. That first win in the First | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Test was huge. It was a chance it win right on the death. I couldn't | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
look, really. I turned around, if the kick was missed that was it for | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
the rest of the Series. The Second Test was there. The final. Australia | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
have come back and been strong. Scored a good try. We have had a | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
chance right at the end for Lee to kick a goal. It was a big kick. I | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
did as well as I could. I was devastated. He rang his mum to say | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
how disappointed he was to lose to the Test Match. His mum got on the | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
plane to support him. It is not often you get second chances in | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
international rugby but we did and thank God we did. Leigh had an | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
incredible game in that last game. The decisions he made defensively, | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
his positional play, to run and counterattack, everything seemed to | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
go right for him We blew them off the park in the second half. I was | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
looking around thinking - is this happening? | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
In Indeed. Please welcome, the British | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
and Irish Lions, led out by our first contender, Leigh Halfpenny. | :17:38. | :18:03. | |
Leigh, it's fabulous to have you here, but with your band of brothers | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
as well, I'm sure they remind you, you couldn't have got to 49 points, | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
a record haul for a Lion, without them. Certainly not. You do become | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
like a band of brothers. It is about four countries coming together and | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
forming one team and achieving something special by winning a | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Lions' Series Down Under in Australia. I feel very privileged to | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
have been part of such - it was an absolute amazing group of people. An | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
incredible experience for you. It didn't look at one point after it | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
was going that way. After that second match, you had to bring in | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
the powers of Super Mum, who flew across the world, as you told us. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
What did she say to you, what was her pep talk like? Just to go out | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
and enjoy it, like I always tried to do when I take the field. She is not | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
a big fan of flying, so it took a lot of courage to fly out. And she | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
wanted to be there for the Third Test. Not only did my mum fly out | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
but my dad and uncle were out there already and my mum, my sister and my | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
auntie flew out as well. It was amazing to have them there. She | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
picked you up and got you going into that Third Test. What a match it | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
was. Tell us a bit there about where you are from. A population of less | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
than 9,000. Rugby internationals and huge cricket stars from this small | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
town, what is in the water? They are doing something right there It is | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
incredible to see so many people come out of such a small town. They | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
are a real proud village. I'm very proud to come from there. Yeah, the | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
support they have join me throughout my career has been amazing. I can't | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
thank them enough. I'm sure they are proud of youton. You recently won | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Wales Sports Personality of the Year. Man of the Series. IR b. B | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
Player of the Year. Surely, Wales' Sexiest Man had to clinch it That | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
was it. Leigh, great to have you here tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
the Lions and our first contender, Leigh Halfpenny. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Has a year really passed back they | :20:41. | :21:01. | |
poured to the Olympic Stadium. The Anniversary Games. Echos of what had | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
been and what will be again. Had 12 months gone by? Another Olympic | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
champion gently leading her charge. Skaf David Florents. Double World | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Champion. Nicola Adams belting them with a smile. Andrew Selby and going | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
pro, Anthony Joshua, and Anthony Agogo and Luke Campbell. And wons | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
for Fran Halsall. Tumbling and turning, the rotations of medal | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
winning. The wheels that keep turning. Becky James, double gold, | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
double bronze, medal table-topping in Minsk. On to Manchester, world | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
records falling, cycling, smiling. And our night on a bike, Sir | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
Bradley, winning the Tour of Britain -- our Knight. The first of the | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Worlds in South Korea. A golden piece of eight. Out in front again, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Helen Glover. Had a whole year really passed? It has gone so fast. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
What a year it has been. During the evening we want you to share your | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
favourite sporting moments of the past 12 months. Using the hashtag | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
SPOTY. The best of the comments will be used on the BBC Sport website. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Sporting comebacks won't you love them. Botham's Ashes in '81, | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Europe's Ryder Cup miracle in Medinah and Sir Alex' Fergie time | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
fightbacks over the years. Great days. This year a comeback to end | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
all. It came in a boat race. Who would you call to work the Oracle, | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
if you need help, when all's at sea? Easy, Sir Ben Ainslie. On the 9th of | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
May Sir Ben Ainslie was racing for the America's Cup in San Francisco | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Bay. He watched up wind is another boat, Artemis, capsised. Trapped | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
underneath was his close friend Andrew Simpson who never made it | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
back to shore. He meant so much to so many of us. Every time you went | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
back on the water it was tough because you remembered Andrew. But | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Ben kept going, kept sailing. Kept racing. When the Americans won the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
first trophy in 1851, Queen Victoria asked who was second. Your Majesty, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
there is no second, came the reply. A race made for a four-time Olympic | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
champion. But the America's Cup 2013 was a different challenge. Ben | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
wasn't in Oracle Team USA's main crew, but four points to -1 down, | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
desperate times call for desperate measures. I had never actually | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
sailed in that role. I had 24 hours to prepare. It was soon 8-1 down, | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
match point to team New Zealand. But one great English sailor would not, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
could not accept defeat. We were really racing for pride and we | :24:00. | :24:13. | |
started winning races. 8-2. 8-3. Ben Ainslie is doing a really nice job | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
here. 8-4. 8-5. 8-6. 8-7. 8-8. Ben had changed the game. Time for one | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
last push. The comeback of 2013 is complete. On September 25, Sir Ben | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Ainslie delivered the greatest comeback in sailing history, to win | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
the oldest trophy in sport. Queen Victoria would have approved. Please | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
welcome our second contender of the night, Sir Ben Ainslie. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
APPLAUSE We had a couple of flares left over | :24:49. | :25:14. | |
from last year. We thought we'd use them. BBC cutbacks and all that. Sir | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Ben, Jeremy Irons joyed the piece there. He is a fan, we are all fans. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
You suffered a terrible loss prior to the race, didn't you? With the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
loss of your great friend Andrew Simpson, affectionately known as | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Bart. How do you cope with that, with the build-up? It was deafing | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
for all of us close to Andrew to see something like that happen, to lose | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
such a close friend. I think a lot of people here would agree that | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
sportsmen and women are often very single-minded people but Andrew was | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
the one guy amongst our group who had perspective in life. You know, | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
he had a great family, a wonderful wife and two great boys. So, you | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
know he taught us a lot of lessons in life and now in death. We miss | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
him terribly. A great loss. You are becoming something of the comeback | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
king. In the Olympics 18 months ago you performed her owics to get back | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
and win the gold. Likewise this time you turn things around, an | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
incredible comeback? It was. It was great to be part of a team. I was a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
little bit embarrassed I have to say. I came back and saw some of the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
headlines that it was actually Ben Ainslie's Team Oracle rather than | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Larry's team. The one thing, the great experience for me was, having | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
spent most of my year as a single-handed sailor, competing on | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
my own, as an individual, was to do something as a team. To Sierra Leone | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
and the guys with all sorts of sporting teams, to actually | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
experience that myself, to be part of a team, to do something really | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
special like that, to build that camaraderie was a great, a real | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
privilege. You are very modest, but you made a difference with your | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
tactical nous, that's for sure. You have won the America's Cup for | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
America, any chance doing it for Britain? I hope so. We are trying | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
hard and working incredibly hard since the America's Cup and we've | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
had a huge amount of support in the UK which is fantastic. It is a huge | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
challenge to take on billionaires in this game. But, we have been going | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
very well. Getting the funding together. We are starting to build a | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
team but we need to have a clear set of rules for the future, the | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
protocol a as they call it in the America's Cup. So we won't commit | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
unless we are happy with the rules moving forward. If anyone can do it, | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
you can, Sir Ben. Sir Ben Ainslie. Thank you very much. Thank you. | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
APPLAUSE # | :27:48. | :28:16. | |
I just want to celebrate another day of living. | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
# I just want to celebrate another day of love. | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
# Don't let it all get you down, no, no. | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
# Turn you round and around and around. | :28:25. | :28:25. | |
Four, three, two. # I just want to celebrate.# It has | :28:26. | :28:45. | |
been another power-packed year for our Paralympians. Ellie Simmonds won | :28:46. | :28:59. | |
three golds. On the track, two of those golds went to our next | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
contender. A woman who works hard, trains hard and is hard. You'll see | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
what I mean. It's Hannah Cockroft. This is just home. It's where I | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
started. It's where I've grown up. Being out on the moors, it gives you | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
this whole new sense of freedom and I love it. That is the place where I | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
fell in love with wheelchair racing. Hannah's always been determined. | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
It's like watching Bolt. If people say to her you can't do something, | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
she will go all out to try and find a way that she can. Not looking | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
forward to the day when she finishes not first. My family have definitely | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
helped me believe that anything is possible. I want to succeed just to | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
give them something back for the sacrifices my family have made for | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
me. We always said her if you can push on the hill, you can push on | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
the flat any time. If you tried stick one of the girls I race | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
against and ask them to push up my moors, they'd have no chance. It's | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
double gold for Cockcroft and Great Britain. After the Paralympic Games | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
I had a double World Champion title to defend. On the start line of | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
World Championships, every single girl knew what I have to offer. They | :30:14. | :30:25. | |
would come after me. I kind of had to deliver. Victory for Cockcroft. | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
Going into the 100, I knew I was in the best shape I ever had been. It | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
is once again herself against the clock. It's the sprint double. That | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
brought it home to me then she was the best in the world. If there | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
wasn't a massive struggle and a big fight when I was younger, then I | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
wouldn't be a fighter now, and I wouldn't believe that I can do | :30:48. | :30:57. | |
anything I want to do. Yorkshire, show your appreciation for Hannah | :30:58. | :30:58. | |
Cockroft. She is extremely popular here and | :30:59. | :31:29. | |
all over the country. How many world records have you | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
broken? 24 so far. Is it a case of going faster or further? The | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
challenge has been announced for me to go further. It -- I am working | :31:42. | :31:51. | |
really closely with my coach. I believe I can retain eight double | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
European title. I have everything to race for. She is so positive, isn't | :31:58. | :32:07. | |
she? At the moment we are looking at the double double, which you already | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
have. Do you think you won it on the Yorkshire moors? I definitely did. | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
Like my dad said, if I can push fast up a hill, I can push fast up a | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
flat. You do not need fancy training facilities or equipment, anyone can | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
go out there and ball in love with sport. I did not need a track, I | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
needed a road. It made me a champion. You needed this. You | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
needed the willpower and determination. I have been so lucky | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
to have an amazing team behind me. I have an incredible family. My older | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
brother lives in Finland. Hopefully he will catch up on this when he | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
comes home for Christmas tomorrow. I have an incredible coach who works | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
be very hard and totally believe in what I do. Without them, this is an | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
individual sport but I could not do it on my own. We will give you | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
another gold medal tonight for talking. Isn't she brilliant, the | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
first Paralympic yen in a non-Paralympics year to be | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
nominated? The third of our contenders, Hannah Cockroft. If you | :33:22. | :33:30. | |
want to vote for Hannah or any of the other contenders, please do not | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
vote now. Voting opens later in the show. Still to come: Rose blooms to | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
land a major success. We look back at a magic Ashes series. And we get | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
inspired by our unsung heroes. Tiger, Tiger burning bright, another | :33:49. | :34:03. | |
major just out of sight. So too for the youngster who has achieved so | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
much, a troublesome year but he is finding his touch. The first major | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
of the year, the Masters unfurled, and a man from down under the top of | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
the world. Great Scott, at last, a first for Australia. And real! A | :34:19. | :34:28. | |
famous links and a familiar sight as a family man hits great heights. It | :34:29. | :34:36. | |
is open season. Come on, give me a hug! Your a fourth view it as the | :34:37. | :34:51. | |
PGA slipped by. -- Fury for Furych. . Finally, oh finally in the US of | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
A, a Sondheim cup victory. Well done the blue and white. Oh, what a team! | :35:01. | :35:07. | |
Eight year in golf, is due to remember. A year of firsts from | :35:08. | :35:17. | |
January to December. So, joy in America for Europe's Solheim Cup | :35:18. | :35:26. | |
team. Congratulations to you. Quite right. | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
You were the youngest player to ever play. You won two matches as well. | :35:36. | :35:48. | |
What was the experience like? It was amazing. To be in America, in front | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
of the home crowds. It is something you always dream of. I have always | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
watched Tiger Woods playing, and I think, how does he handle the | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
pressure? I think I did it very well. Now you know. This was your | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
seventh Solheim Cup. What did it mean to finally win one in America? | :36:11. | :36:17. | |
It was fantastic. We had a really young team, six, seven rookies. They | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
played really well. We really thrashed them. It was fantastic to | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
do that for the first time. Congratulations to you all. Joy in | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
America for the Solheim Cup team. Let's stay in the States where | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
history was created by two top men. 18-year-old Matthew Fitzpatrick | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
here, from Sheffield became the first Englishman in over 100 years | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
to win the US Amateur Championship, before which he had been the leading | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
amateur at the British Open. Well played, sir. What a cracking period | :36:50. | :36:56. | |
of time that was for you. And our next contender became the | :36:57. | :37:05. | |
first English player to win the US Open in 43 years. After a memorable | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
debut as an 18-year-old, back in 1998, a Major win finally came to | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
Justin Rose. This is it. One hole to go for Justin Rose and he leads the | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
US Open. As a kid, you have no doubts. I have had a couple of | :37:25. | :37:34. | |
bogeys in a row. The influence my dad had over my early career was | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
everything. It will be all call from here on in. I look back at our time | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
together incredibly fondly. He was my best friend. He burst onto the | :37:47. | :37:55. | |
scene as a 17-year-old. He passed away way too early but it was | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
amazing how he developed my game without having a huge knowledge | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
himself. His hand and heart must be thumping. Occasionally, kids give me | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
strength. They say golf does not have to be everything. To see your | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
kids puts things in perspective. Bad days disappears so much faster. He | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
fires the most important shot of his life to date. Going into the US | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
Open, I was excited. I said to my mum, let's do it for dad. It was | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
Father's Day. My coach sent me a really nice text. He said be the man | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
your dad to want you to be. Justin Rose, towards the hole. Almost drops | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
a sensational shot and Justin Rose has won the US Open. He is blinking | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
away tears. That is for his dad. That is when I allowed myself to get | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
emotional. My first thought was of my dad. To finish like that was | :39:04. | :39:11. | |
unexplainable. I love you Leo, I love you Lottie. Happy Father's Day! | :39:12. | :39:22. | |
A round of applause for Justin Rose. A truly monumental effort. | :39:23. | :39:24. | |
Sadly, Justin can't be with us tonight. He's been playing in | :39:25. | :39:33. | |
Thailand. His good form continues. He finished in fourth place. It is | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
now time for our first award, the Unsung Hero. This recognises those | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
special people in our communities who give up so much of their time to | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
help others. This year's award is part of the BBC's new participation | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
campaign, Get Inspired. For more information, go to the website. To | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
present it, please welcome two stars who know what inspiring others is | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
all about. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Nicola Adams and Amir | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
Khan. Boxing clever tonight. A great leads | :39:59. | :40:32. | |
Louth, Nicola. You are more than welcome to come across the Pennines. | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
Over the last few weeks, the winners from the BBC's 15 nations and | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
regions have been announced. And it's great that each and every one | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
of them are here tonight. They are all champions but picking an overall | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
winner was hard. The jury had to make a decision and here is the | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
winners' story. For over 30 years, Joe and Maggie Forber have provided | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
organised basketball for thousands of youngsters here in Greater | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
Manchester. They have voluntarily contributed countless hours to make | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
sport accessible for people of all walks of life and all backgrounds. | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
It's more than the basketball, I think, for us. It's how they come | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
through as people. We teach them discipline, courtesy, respect for | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
people. It's all part of a package which goes beyond the actual | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
basketball skills. It is their partnership which makes the place | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
buzz. It is Joe and Maggie, who are the heart and soul of the place. It | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
is them who you see on a daily basis in here doing every single job from | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
sweeping the floor, checking kids in on the register, through to | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
coaching. It is like they retired for about eight seconds and then | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
took on another job, which is full-time and a half. We'd get very | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
bored if we didn't have anything to do! What would we do if we were not | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
here? Where would we be? We would probably be sitting at home watching | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
TV. They genuinely care to make a difference. They are willing to put | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
their bodies on the line, their health on the line, to make sure | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
that just one more kid gets an opportunity. They are incredible. | :41:58. | :42:09. | |
The award goes to Maggie and Joe Forber. | :42:10. | :42:41. | |
Huge congratulations. I am sure you would like to say a few words. Are | :42:42. | :42:52. | |
you going to say the words? You want to say a few words. I thought you | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
were going to ask me some questions. Tell us about your work. I do not | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
know why I am here. I feel privileged to be in such company. I | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
have always been involved in sport. I have to mention my wife, Maggie, | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
right at the beginning because we really have done it together. | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
Without Maggie it would not have happened. If I can say one or two | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
words about where we are and what we do, we work from Manchester. We work | :43:25. | :43:33. | |
in basketball. It is supposed to be a minor sport in England but the | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
basketball centre where we work has more than 1000 youngsters a week | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
passes through the centre. -- passing through the centre. | :43:46. | :43:56. | |
That is all abilities. We play at the highest level. Our younger boys | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
and girls are very good. We cater for all abilities with community | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
basketball. It is an honour to have worked there. We will continue as | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
long as we can. As long as our health stands up, we will stay | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
there. I want to say quite sincerely I do not think we are any different | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
from many, many, many people - hundreds of thousands of people who | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
do voluntary work - not just in sport but other things as well. I | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
feel we are representing those tonight and it is a privilege to be | :44:34. | :44:34. | |
here. You are inspirational. Thank you so | :44:35. | :44:43. | |
much. Thank you for all the work. You are our Un Unsung Heroes, ladies | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
and gentlemen. The numbers you need to vote for | :44:48. | :45:00. | |
your BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Remember, voting only opens | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
later in the show: A reminder of all voting numbers are | :45:03. | :45:47. | |
available to view on the red button. The fast track and the perils that | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
come with speed and the prizes. Tai Woffinden, world speedway champion. | :45:54. | :46:02. | |
Mark Marques, the GP champion. King of Superbikes, Tom Sykes. The slow | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
slower track, the gentle turn, Stuart Anderson, world indoor | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
champion. Falling so fast you can barely say his name, Gary Hunt. | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
Jerry Hughes, eighth months at sea, the first deaf sailor to go single | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
hand around the world. The win pen tat athletes maintaining their | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
title. A 22nd world title for George Dgweed. And amber Hill, the face of | :46:33. | :46:41. | |
the future a shooting star. And aunchts rora's Encore, the Grand | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
National. The sport of kings, the sport of the Queen. 20 days in | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
August, the high heat of summer, the Ashes emphatically regained. And the | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
triumphant England women's Ashes' team join us here now. I'm joined by | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
Heather Knight and Katherine Brunt. You were the top scorer. Player of | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
the Series, over 300 runs. What did you put the success of the team down | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
to? Hard to put it down to one reason. We had a tough winter. We | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
lost both our World Cup crowns to the Australians. That hurt us and we | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
had a point to prove in summer in the Ashes. I'm glad to say we went | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
out to do that and had contributions from everyone. | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
You are one of the fastest bowlers in the world, Katherine. What do you | :47:33. | :47:35. | |
think this will mean to the popularity and the following of | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
women's cricket in this country? I think it has done a great deal for | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
women's cricket in general. The following we get is growing more and | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
more the more we play. We have been playing on Sky Sports which helps | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
massively. We sold out the Essex County Men's Ground this year which | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
was massive for us in itself. It goes to show how far women's cricket | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
is progressing. And you are going out to defend the Ashes in the | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
winter. Perhaps you should go earlier and help the fellas. Many | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
congratulations to you, Clare. A great triumph for the women and | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
England's men, let's not forget did enjoy a long, hot, successful | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
summer. To look back, on that series, we turn to magician, Dynamo | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
and former umpire, Dickie Bird. Clr People ask why it's so special. | :48:23. | :48:34. | |
But if you have to ask, maybe you'll never understand. It's something | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
that is difficult to explain. There's something magical about it. | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
And this summer, here on hallowed English turf, things were no | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
different, as an old rivalry was renewed. All for one little urn of | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
precious ashes. Battle lines were drawn. And no quarter was asked or | :48:59. | :49:08. | |
given. England drew first blood. Just. Can there ever have been a | :49:09. | :49:16. | |
more dramatic finish? Boys grow into men out in the middle. Sometimes, it | :49:17. | :49:24. | |
was about luck. That's out. Broad is not walking. Rather than judgement. | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
Terrible mistake by the umpire. Wickets fell as landmarks were | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
passed. England were in the ascendancy and took control. Their | :49:37. | :49:46. | |
passion always burns brightly. Performances to remember. They've | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
been done by a very good bowler there. From a fiery summer of | :49:53. | :50:00. | |
cricket. And he's caught. Until it all ended here, in the darkness. | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
Over 130 years of history and the expectation of a nation. The Ashes | :50:06. | :50:15. | |
were England's once more. But the battle still rages. | :50:16. | :50:26. | |
He says the battle still rages. Only just. It is the Aussies who are | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
winning the war Down Under. They beat England by 3881 runs in the | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
First Test and were clearly enjoying it. Last week in Adelaide they won | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
the Second Test by 218 runs: Another crushing defeat. Currently in the | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
Third Test England are struggling, Australia lead by 369 runs with | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
seven second innings wickets in tact. More bad news is that Stuart | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
Broad was struck on the right foot by a ball from Mitchell Johnson. He | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
has been taken to hospital for an X-ray. He won't bowl again this Test | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
but is hoping to play in the final two matches of the Series. So it's | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
an emergency situation and in an emergency, you ring the bell. For | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
our next contender, Ian Bell. Summing up his achievement, a man | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
who will never turn done a Big Breakfast. What a summer. England | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
retain the Ashes and who was man of the series? Ian Bell. Let me tell | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
you a little story about him. I was Belly's captain when we won in 2005. | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
A lovely technique, a real player. But slightly overawed. I believed in | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
him, but he was struggling, no doubt about that. Looking back, I don't | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
think I was ever ready for test cricket at that time. In those five | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
test matches I learned a lot about myself and what it takes to be a top | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
international cricketer and I had to work really hard on my game. The | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
Australians really had it in for him, the "Shermanator" and the rest | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
of it. He was close to becoming a laughing stock. Some doubted whether | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
he would play test match cricket ever again. That was a time then | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
when I thought it could all be over. At that point, my career could have | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
gone one of two ways. I was a young player that they identified they | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
could bully away, try and get on top of me. Maybe I did not believe in my | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
own ability enough. They were good lessons, if I'm honest. Friday 12th | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
of July at Trent Bridge, England were on their knees. They needed a | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
hero. Enter Ian Bell to score his first Ashes century on home soil. In | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
the sunshine, a full house in. Ian Bell is on his way. As a young kid | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
you grow up and you always remember the Botham Ashes and the dream is to | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
be the man of the series in the Ashes. You want to make a | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
contribution that changes games. There he is, his 100. That is a | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
terrific effort. And then we went on to Lords and did exactly what I | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
wanted to do. And his arms raised, a second rescue, a second 100. Well | :52:49. | :52:51. | |
played, Ian Bell. Maybe I'm guilty in my career of scoring runs when it | :52:52. | :52:59. | |
wasn't at its toughest. This wasn't the most stylish but it was runs | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
when the team needed it most. Another 100 for Ian Bell. He punches | :53:04. | :53:06. | |
the air with delight. He has been prolific. 562 runs, three centuries, | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
Man of the Series, the Shermanator seems a long time ago. They are not | :53:11. | :53:12. | |
laughing any more. Such an interesting story about the | :53:13. | :53:22. | |
rebuilding of confidence. Ian is unable to join us now. He and his | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
England colleagues will be just about waking up ahead of a tricky | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
fourth day ahead of that Test in Perth. Good luck to him for | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
tonight's award. So, from the fast tracks of Australia, to the fast | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
tracks of track and field athletics and the very best in the business | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
headed to Russia for the World Championships this summer. And | :53:45. | :53:57. | |
Bolt's going to take the gold medal again. Unbeatable. Unsurpassable. | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
Isinbayeva is the champion. A majestic performance from the queen | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
of distance running. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by an absolute mile! It | :54:05. | :54:07. | |
is all about LaShawn Merritt. 19.98. That's a magnificent seven. Great | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
Britain, the bronze medal. World championship gold runs for Tiffany | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
Porter. Double gold, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Total domination by | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
Valerie Adams. Usain Bolt flying to the line. Eight World Championship | :54:23. | :54:24. | |
gold medals. Just incredible. Moscow was indeed | :54:25. | :54:34. | |
magic, where, yet again, at a major, our next contender delivered when it | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
really mattered. Thanks to a built-in clock that's almost her | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
secret weapon. The summer time was certainly another fine time for | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
Christine Ohuruogu. It's all about timing. Cross the line. Get to the | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
end, get to the end. Leave everything on the track. The 400 is | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
a very difficult event to master. It's all about timing. COMMENTATOR: | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
Ohuruogu wins the gold. Christine Ohuruogu takes the gold medal. She | :55:04. | :55:11. | |
does this every time. I do thrive of big challenges. The bigger the | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
better. The supreme big-time competitor seems her best when | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
medals are at stake. I wasn't settling for second. She is shifting | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
through the gears and Christine Ohuruogu will have to stay in | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
contact. I knew it was going to be me and her. I know she is strong. | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
She hasn't stamped her authority on the final. There was no panic bell | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
saying - oh my gosh, you are behind, you are behind, start running. When | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
you can find your rhythm, it's effortless. COMMENTATOR: Christine | :55:45. | :55:46. | |
Ohuruogu will start to run her down and is coming fast. I remember | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
seeing her, just thinking - I can get there, I can get there. | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
COMMENTATOR: Christine is coming, she might just make it. The race | :55:54. | :55:59. | |
isn't over until it's over. 10m to go, she wasn't there. 3m to go, she | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
wasn't there. Did she get it? All I heard was the cheering. I didn't | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
want to turn around. I didn't know who it was. She's go the it. A new | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
national record. I thought the record was the one thing I really do | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
need. There must be a place in the all time greats of British athletics | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
now for Christine Ohuruogu. There is something about pushing yourself to | :56:25. | :56:26. | |
the edge and seeing whether you fall over or not. Yeah, I've not fallen, | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
yet. She is one of our all-time greats. | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
She is right on time tonight. Christine Ohuruogu. | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
You were walking in, as we were about to begin this interview. Let's | :56:43. | :57:12. | |
talk about the grand scheme of nicks your career. You do peak for the | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
majors every time. Olympic gold and silver. Two golds. The only British | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
woman to win twol golds at a World Championships, ladies and gentlemen. | :57:23. | :57:24. | |
APPLAUSE How do you do it every time? That's | :57:25. | :57:32. | |
actually quite a difficult question. I don't know exactly how I do it but | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
me and my coach we always know that the Championships are where it is | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
at. That's where I really have to go out and do everything possible that | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
I can to win. We like winning medals. You know, the Championships | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
is where we go out to shine. Then let's talk about the race strategy. | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
It might work for you, but our nerves are absolutely frayed. We | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
have bitten our finger nails to the quick. I know, I promised I would | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
try to make it easier. I will try to make it easier in the future. But, | :58:04. | :58:08. | |
you know, I think the 400 is a beautiful race to run. It is tough | :58:09. | :58:11. | |
as anything but the beautiful thing about it is once you find your feet, | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
once everything is in sync, your physical and mental, everything | :58:17. | :58:19. | |
comes together. It really does feel really easy and this is' where we | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
try to... We don't want to change your technique but maybe this photo | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
finish is cutting it fine. I'm not sure how much further you can go. | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
That dip was the difference? It really was. My coach always says - | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
run to the line. I did and the last thing I could do was throw myself | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
over it. That's what I did. You Z you throw yourself into everything. | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
Not only do you have hours and hours training on the track and all the | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
weights but you have this pledge to visit every school in your borough | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
and you are going to go and do speeches and inspire kids. How is it | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
going? Really well. Since I started last year, I think I have done over | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
30 schools. I still have a lot to do, but, you know, I really love | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
doing it. It is something that is so natural and easy and the kids are so | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
happy you have come in and you invest some time in them and help | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
them on their way. That's what they like, that you have come in and you | :59:13. | :59:16. | |
are helping them on their way into their future. That makes me feel | :59:17. | :59:19. | |
humble. You are an incredible woman. Isn't she? An incredible woman and | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
athlete that. Thank you so much. Best of luck. | :59:25. | :59:34. | |
There's no one to touch Alistair Brownlee. Non Stanford, fantastic | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
victory. Jonathan, triumphant, what a win. Double gold for Great | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
Britain. Stunning success. It will all come down to the final race of | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
the year. Wow, what drama. His race is run. She's still in first | :59:51. | :00:00. | |
position. Gomez is hunting him down. Oh, my word, it is Gomez's victory. | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
A complete tactical numpty! Non Stanford is the champion of the | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
world. We're good at that, and you can now show your appreciation for | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
our top class triathletes as they are here tonight. So, please welcome | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Yorkshire's finest band of brothers, Alistair and Johnny Brownlee, and | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
2013 World Champion Non Stanford. Alistair, Jonny and Non are here to | :00:18. | :00:55. | |
present our next award, the Young Sports Personality of the Year. This | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
has been chosen by a panel that Alistair and Jonny were on, as well | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
as representatives from the Youth Sport Trust and Blue Peter. The | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
standard was incredible and the winner will be one of these three | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
contenders. Young Sports Personality of the Year. Sprinter Dina | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Asher-Smith became the second youngest woman in history to win a | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
medal at the World Athletics Championships. Her four by 100 metre | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
relay bronze came after she was crowned a double European junior | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
champion, with her golds coming in the 200 metres and sprint relay. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Skeet shooter Amber Hill rewrote the record books in 2013. As a | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
15-year-old she became the youngest ever winner of a senior World Cup, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
and finished the season ranked number one in Britain. She also | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
dominates her age group on the global stage where she is also a | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
world-record holder. Golfer Charley Hull became the youngest ever | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Solheim Cup player and her two wins helped Europe beat the USA for the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
first time in America. And all this came in a season where she had five | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
consecutive runner-up finishes on the pro tour as its youngest member. | :01:51. | :02:02. | |
Non, please can you do the honours. The 2013 Young sports personality is | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Amber Hill. Many congratulations. Do you want to | :02:05. | :02:40. | |
say a few words? You stand in the middle. It is your moment. This year | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
has been incredible. I cannot believe I have won this award. So | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
many athletes were nominated. I would like to take the time to thank | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
friends and family for their support and to my sponsors for being so | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
generous and the BBC for an amazing experience. You cannot ask for much | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
more. Thank you so much and congratulations to all the other | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
athletes who were nominated for this award. A wonderful wedding speech. | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
Our Young sports personality for 2013, Amber Hill. -- winning speech. | :03:18. | :03:32. | |
Just a reminder, if you want to vote for any of our contenders, please do | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
not do it yet. Now to our next contender who has enjoyed a | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
wonderful two years on his bike. In 2012, he won Olympic bronze in the | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
time trial. But, this year, not only did he go one better in the world's | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
greatest road race, he cruised to victory. 2013 was a tour de force | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
for Chris Froome. The first time I can remember really falling in love | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
with my bike was going down the rift Valley. Feeling the wind rushing and | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
being able to do it on my own. Chris Froome, he grew up here in Kenya. He | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
was very humble and he was shy. I did not imagine he would be a | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
serious rider. Being British, I had lived in Kenya, yes, but it did not | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
feel right racing as a Kenyan. It was a huge challenge to be able to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
go from riding on dirt roads around here to riding in the Tour de | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
France. Nothing compares to the Tour de France. It is the race. I was | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
ready. In some of those stages, he was there by himself. I felt like I | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
was on the bike, I want to go in front of Chris Froome and say, let's | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
go, let's go. I had identified one tour as one of | :04:47. | :05:05. | |
the key stages. Chris Froome strikes out alone and goes for the stage | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
victory here. Your legs are burning, your lungs are burning. But if I was | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
feeling like that then every other guy's feeling like that, if not | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
worse. All the preparation, all the training, this last part of the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
climb, this is where it all counts. This is where I am going to win the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Tour de France. What a fantastic victory. He is in yellow and the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
others are falling by the wayside. Crossing the finish line, we all | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
spread out and celebrated together. That is a memory that will stay with | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
me for the rest of my life. He went on and became one of the greatest | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
riders in the world. All these people are very, very proud of him. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
The man is a machine. Please welcome, Chris Froome. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
What a year for you. You have gone from BMX in Kenyan to being the tour | :05:54. | :06:23. | |
champion. You have come a long way, haven't you? It has been pretty | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
unbelievable. It has been a pretty tough, uphill battle to get where I | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
can. It has been worth every second. You got the yellow jersey after the | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
eighth stage. You dominated the race. You have that magical finish | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
in Paris. It does not get better than that, does it? It does not. We | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
saw the images, coming in with my team-mates, I do not believe they | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
get enough credit for all the hard work and determination they put into | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
getting me into Paris with the yellow jersey still on my | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
shoulders. Getting there and being able to celebrate with them for the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
first time, coming over the finish line, it was unforgettable. It is | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
quite a tactical sport, isn't it? Is there a danger you might become a | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
marked man? Certainly. I am sure other teams will lift the bar. We | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
are going to have to train even harder. Next year's Tour de France, | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
where else would it start but Leeds? I thought that might get a | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
cheer. It would be nice for a home win. We have seen how the sport has | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
grown so much in the past few years. To have the Tour de France | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
coming here, as defending champion, it really does not get much better | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
than that. I can only imagine, when I was a kid I would have killed to | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
see the Tour de France come past my front door. Simile people will have | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
that opportunity next year. They will love it. They will all be | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
cheering you on. All the best, Chris Froome. | :08:18. | :08:31. | |
There was a time when Sir Henry Cecil made life look as easy as | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
this. Out in front, ten times champion | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
trainer. In his rose garden, lovingly tended, always fragrant. | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
But cruel frosts were to strike. The yard went into decline. His body, | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
too. That might have been that. In life's weighing room, all square. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
And then came Frankel. And the horse like no other bore the trainer like | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
no other, back to the heights, where briefly, brilliantly, he was out in | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
front again. 25 classic winners, 75 winners at | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Royal Ascot. The voice of racing himself, Sir | :09:16. | :09:32. | |
Peter O'Sullevan. I'm so pleased that Lady Cecil and Henry's children | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
are here tonight. He had flair, he had incredible intuition with horses | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
and he had personality in buckets. I also know how much he admired our | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
next contender. A jockey with an unbelievable strength of mind and | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
body, he also has an unquenshionable thirst for records and riding | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
winners. He is AP McCoy. Mountain Tunes still staying on. | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
Surely he can't get there. And Mountain Tunes for Tony McCoy. A | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
tremendous attack on the outside. He's done it! 4000 up Tony McCoy and | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Mountain Tunes. # There's a man going round taking | :10:07. | :10:20. | |
names. # And he decides who to free and who | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
to blame. # Everybody went be treated or the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
same. # There'll be a golden ladder | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
reaching down. # When the man comes around.#. | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
Next out on the course is AP McCoy. # The hairs on your arm will stand | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
up. # And the terror in each set and | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
each sup. # Will you partake of that last | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
offered cup? # Or disappear into the potter's | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
ground? # When the man comes around. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
# Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
# 100 million angels singin'. # Multitudes are marchin' to the big | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
kettledrum. # Voices callin', voices crying. | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
# It's alpha and omega's kingdom come. #. What a hero! What a | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
sportsman! What a jockey! Ladies and gentlemen, AP McCoy. | :11:44. | :11:55. | |
And no one who knows him will be surprised to learn he has been | :11:56. | :12:19. | |
working today. Very unsuccessfully. I am glad you did not mention it, to | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
be honest. We will pass over that. You are a difficult man to impress. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Even new web pleased and proud to reach 4000 winners. Just the way it | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
happened. -- even if you were pleased. At the beginning of this | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
season or last season I knew I was getting to a reasonable number of | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
winners and then I got injured. I missed the first 27 days of the | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
season. I ended up in intensive care for five days. Then I was reading | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
that people were doubting whether I would be champion jockey. It gives | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
you something to drive towards. I felt a lot of fulfilment when I rode | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
that. -- 4000th winner. My wife and son were there and my little girl, | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
my dad and my brother. It was for Jonjo O'Neill and my boss, JP | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
McManus. It could not have worked out any better. I know what you are | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
like, you will have set yourself the next target. What was it? Doing | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
better than I did today. That is my next target. I dream a lot. I think | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
I will ride 5000 winners. My wife will kill me. Matt. I want to be | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
champion jockey at the end of this season. -- my wife will kill me for | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
saying that. Good luck tonight, AP McCoy. | :14:04. | :14:16. | |
Fred Perry is invincible at Wimbledon. We'll fight on the | :14:17. | :14:29. | |
beaches. The death of John F Kennedy... Roger Kennedy helped make | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
it an exciting format. John Lloyd should be winning this match. The | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
opening of the Berlin Wall. The dream is over. What must Tim Henman | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
be thinking? I'm getting closer! There are days in our sporting | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
history that are truly unforgettable. July 30th 1966 | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
England win the World Cup. August fourth 2012 and that Super Saturday | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
at the Olympics. Now, Sunday, July seventh 2013, will be a day that | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
will live long in the memory. The time 5:25pm. The place, a baking | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
hot Centre Court. And the result, a first British men's singles champion | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
for 77 years. It was the ultimate triumph for Andy Murray. | :15:11. | :15:23. | |
For the second year in a row Andy Murray is in the final. Last year's | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
final... Was that emphatic, or what? He is a set away from history. | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
I know I'm never going to play in that much panic, stress, excitement, | :15:46. | :15:58. | |
ever again. One down, three to go. Two down, two to go. I went 40-love | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
up in the game and I thought to myself - am I literally about to win | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
Wimbledon? He struggled to breathe, I was so, so tense. I can't believe | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
it. The pressure was getting to me. My arm was shaking. | :16:20. | :16:33. | |
I just think he deserves this. Championship point. | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
The waiting is over. Andy Murray is the Wimbledon champion. I came back | :16:45. | :16:56. | |
after the tournament, when there was absolutely no-one here. The quietest | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
place I could come to, was amazingly, on to Centre Court. That | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
was really when it hit me, what had happened. You simply cannot give | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
more. I'm in the quite sure how our nerves survived those two weeks. The | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
waiting was over then. We are going to have to wait a bit longer to | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
speak to Andy. He has been training hard. We understand he is in the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
shower. We'll wait for you Andy. Let's move back to Moscow, nobody | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
ran around that blue track more than our next contender. Following an | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
incredible long distance double at last year's Olympics, he did it | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
again at this year's World Championships. It's been another | :17:39. | :17:55. | |
mo-mentous year for Mo Farah. If you wanted the word that summed up Mo | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Farah, it's bravery. He is brave in the way that he runs his races. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Farah is going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain. Beautiful! | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
You couldn't do better than what he did in London. This time he was | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
going for another major double. This time, a World Championship. Probably | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
more pressure on him this time than even London. Where he wants to be in | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the front. He was gripping the race by the throat and making it | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
impossibly difficult for people at the end of that race. And here comes | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Jeilan, the defending champion. And Mo Farah starts to go away. Jeilan | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
is still there. Jeilan comes again. But Farah is going to get there. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
This is world domination for Farah. There is a wonderful moment that top | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
athletes reach in their career, where you actually think you are | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
going to win, but crucially, the athletes that you are pitched | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
against, actually think they are running for second place. The double | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
Olympic champion attempting to become the double world champion. Mo | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
brought a focus that allowed him to go out there hungrier for the 5000 | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
than he was in the 10. Mo Farah working hard. He hasn't got this one | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
yet. He's got to battle for this. He's sprinting for gold. He's | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
running for greatness. Mo Farah is going to get there again. Farah wins | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
it. By winning the double in Moscow, Mo, in modern times, has become the | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
most successful distance runner of all time. | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
What an accolade from Lord Coe. Indeed. The most successful distance | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
runner of modern times. Well, unfortunately Mo is training hard. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Next year he is going to attempt the marathon. He is a man for all | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
distances. He isn't able to join us for the moment. He is in the State. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
We all wish him well for tonight's award and for 2014 and more success. | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
APPLAUSE Well I'm still waiting for Andy to | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
get out of the shower but mum is here. Judy. Is he always this late? | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Thanks a lot, Andy for landing me in it again. Obviously he is over in | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Miami and he has messed up his timing again. Maybe he is trying to | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
make up for the fact that he forgot to go to you when you won Wimbledon | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
last year? He tanked on completely, didn't he? How have things changed | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
with Andy suddenly becoming the Wimbledon champion? The expectancy | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
of a nation. It must have been so nerve-wrecking to watch. I think it | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
has not been easy since Tim and Greg retired having to shoulder that | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
burden of expectation and that kind of desire, obviously for a British | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
men's Wimbledon champion for 70-odd years. You know, for him, obviously | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
he was very young when Tim and Greg retired. He really had to grow up | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
dem public. That's not such an easy thing to do -- to grow up in public. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
He is 16 now. All I can say is I know how hard he has worked for so | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
many years. -- he's 26. It has been dream since he visited Wimbledon | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
when he was seven, to win it. In July to see him do it, was something | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
quite extraordinary. Magnificent. Let's look at some of the scenes. | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
They were memorable. Not just the match-point but some of the victory | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
celebrations. If you look up there you will see them, Judy. He ignored | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
you for a little while. He probably has a few things on his mind. There | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
you go. In the end, he found you. I think everybody was shouting at him, | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
"What about your mum?" There is his name on that board A Murray 2013. It | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
must mean so much? You must be so proud of him. Incredibly proud. I | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
know how hard he has worked for so many years. I know it was a dream | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
come true for him to win that and to win the US Open and get that monkey | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
off his back. He had come so close getting to four finals but never | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
making it. He never stopped believing. Every setback made him | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
stronger. I think he really deserved to get that this year. I know he is | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
very sorry that he can't be here tonight. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
APPLAUSE Judy, there he is. He has saved you. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
You have done a magnificent job. Andy, mum has been filling in for | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
you, you are a little bit late. But that's allowed you are Wimbledon | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
men's champion. How is she doing? Have you got used to that sound yet? | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Um, no, it's been tough. You know, I've obviously been trying to | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
achieve that for a number of years now. And actually the couple of | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
weeks and months afterwards, I found it quite hard to come to terms with, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
but it's starting to, you know, I start to get used to it a little bit | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
more. I've obviously been training hard to get myself back on the | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
court. It was great to get over that final hurdle. There was a bit of | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
pressure on me to do it. A massive burden. One which you managed quite | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
magnificently, Andy. I suppose the interview, as well - we have seen | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
some of the great scenes there with your mum but the interview with Sue, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
must have been so much easier this year than the year before? Yeah, I | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
managed to keep it together this year. But, yeah, I mean, obviously, | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
I think everyone probably saw how much it meant to me the year before. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
I had come close a few times and hadn't quite managed to get over | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
that final hurdle and, then, yeah, obviously to do it the following | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
year, after kind of cracking up in front of everyone on Centre Court | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
wasn't that easy. I was a little bit embarrassed but I came back strong | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
the next year and I'm glad I managed to win. The great thing is, Sue had | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
been promised that she didn't have to do this show any more once we had | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
a Wimbledon champion. She is finally off the hook and sends her thanks. | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
One thing - I don't want to put any real pressure on you, Andy, but it | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
has been a hell of a long time since we had someone defend a men's single | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
title? . Any chance? I was waiting for That you are actually the first | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
one to ask me that. I'll give it a go. I'm just trying to recover from | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
back surgery just now. I will give it everything I have goted. I | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
trained extremely hard to finally do it. If I'm fit and ready - I had | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
unbelievable support at Wimbledon this year. It made a huge difference | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
especially in the final N sport it makes a big, big difference. So, if | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
I get the support behind me, I have a chance. Well, we wish you well. We | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
know you are driven and you are getting yourself fit out there. We | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
hope your back is ob. I can't imagine really why you prefer that | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
spot there than here. Good luck tonight and good luck with the | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Australian Open. We hope you are fit and well. Andy Murray, please, | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
ladies and gentlemen, and Judy. APPLAUSE | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
Accident look fresh and fragrant. He really did. We have now seen all ten | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
contenders that are aiming to BBC Sports Personality of the Year for | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
2013. I can now announce voting is open. Here are the names and the | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
all-important numbers. Here is a reminder of all the | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
details and who you can vote for. Still to come: We'll reveal the Team | :25:51. | :26:51. | |
of the Year. Announce a special Diamond award winner and crown the | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2013. Or #7 Our next award is in | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
memory of our beloved colleague, Helen Rollason. She presented | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
programmes for many years on BBC Television but 14 years ago died of | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
cancer. Her name lives on in her charity and the award shows all the | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
characters she showed. Over the years those who have received the | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
award have shown the many qualities and this year, Helen again would be | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
proud of its recipient, who has battled anding fought by never | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
giving up, and never giving in. One spring morning a 15-year-old lad | :27:38. | :28:03. | |
left home to watch a football match. He said "goodbye" cheekily to his | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
sister. He went to the newsagents where his mother was working. "I | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
hope they win for you son." "No problem mum, 3-0." Kevin Williams | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
never came home from Hillsborough. Neither did 95 other men, women and | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
children. Who could ever hope to find the truth of what happened | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
there? Nearly two years after the disaster, and relying on evidence | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
from police and pathologists, the coroner delivered a controversial | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
verdict - accidental death for the victims of Hillsborough. A verdict | :28:44. | :28:53. | |
and a time, 3.15pm. By 3.15pm, he said, the victims were dead, oes r | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
or as good as. Nothing after that was relevant r he said - the victims | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
were dead, or as good as. 3.15pm, a time set to draw a line under that | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
dark day. But Anne discovered evidence to suggest that over half | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
an hour later Kevin still had a pulse. She was told by the | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
policewoman in whose arms her son died that at around 4.00pm, he spoke | :29:23. | :29:34. | |
a word, "mum." Kevin's brother went after the truth N Liverpool there | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
were groups that would not give up. -- Kevin's mother went after the | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
truth. In Liverpool there were groups that would not give up. She | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
did it for her son, for the families of loved ones who died. For the | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
families who were blameless but blamed. Liverpool, a city united in | :29:55. | :30:06. | |
pursuit of the truth. But it was elusive this truth. She was told | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
time and time again that a new inquest was not in the interests of | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
justice. She went to the European Court of Human Rights. Her | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
application was - out of time. Anne was running out of time. 21 years | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
had passed. She was a grandmother now. Who wanted to know the truth. | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
She did. Tirelessly, tenaciously, she carried on. But, at last, the | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
tides began to turn. A hunger for the truth was stirring. The | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Hillsborough Independent Panel was set up and with the panel's | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
findings, after 23 years, the stone wall of resistance fell. The | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
verdicts of accidental death were quashed. New inquests were ordered | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
for those who died at Hillsborough. Time did run out for Anne. On April | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
18th this year, she died of cancer. Who could ever hope to find the | :31:05. | :31:12. | |
truth? The fearless Anne Williams of Formby, who never heard the doors to | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
the truth being shut in her face. What she heard was the last word of | :31:18. | :31:28. | |
her dying son, "mum." APPLAUSE Special thanks to Sue | :31:29. | :31:51. | |
Johnston for that beautiful reading. And I am delighted to be joined on | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
stage by Anne's daughter, Sara, and her brother Danny, as well as Alan | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
Hansen, who was captain of Liverpool on that fateful day. | :31:59. | :32:19. | |
A very special and poignant moment. Thank you. Alan, before you present | :32:20. | :32:32. | |
the award, Danny I know you would like to say a few words on behalf of | :32:33. | :32:44. | |
the family. We thank you for this prestigious award for an, | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
recognising her courage in her fight for justice for Kevin. She always | :32:51. | :32:58. | |
helped those who could not help themselves. We would like to | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
dedicate this award to all those who helped to support Anne Williams | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
throughout the tireless campaign, with a special mention to John | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
Glover, who also sadly passed away this year. Without her, her | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
supporters and their supporters, the campaign for justice would not be | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
where it is today. She was such an easy person to like and an even | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
easier person to love. She is messed by so many. While she is in our | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
hearts and minds, we will never walk alone. Finally, I would like to | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
steal a quote from Stevie Hart, through the darkness of Hillsborough | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
came a shining light of hope that was our little Anne. Thank you. | :33:46. | :34:14. | |
There are three ways you can vote for the BBC Sports Personality of | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
the Year 2013. Please dial carefully and remember | :34:20. | :34:43. | |
to get the permission of the bill payer before you call. You can vote | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
online for free. You will find full terms and conditions. All voting | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
numbers are available to view on the red button. Voting closes in just | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
over 20 minutes' time. If you have not voted yet, do it now. Familiar | :35:03. | :35:15. | |
faces and routines. Champions of Europe. New faces, Ireland winning | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
the Six Nations Grand Slam. In November, some classic rugby but the | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
North/South divide is still there will stop Phil Taylor, a 16th world | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
title. The first win at Frimley Green for Scott waits. The | :35:35. | :35:42. | |
unexpected at Wimbledon Marion Bartoli winning and retiring. Laura | :35:43. | :35:54. | |
Robson progressed. The Serb was master of London. Out of retirement, | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
was he ever in it? Ronnie O Sullivan, world title number five. | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
Century break after century break. The Thames turned dark blue. It was | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
Oxford 's race. The Special Olympics National games in Bath. 1700 special | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
athletes. In Celtic, the Scottish league title, the League Cup went to | :36:19. | :36:29. | |
St Mirren. On the world stage, Farewell to Sachin Tendulkar. | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
Richard Whitehead, 40 marathons in 40 days. Six days after the Boston | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
bombings, a tribute paid in London. 36,000 going through the old | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
familiar routines around the streets of the capital. The voice and words | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
of Eddie Butler. Let me give you some clues. George Formby, a pier, | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
pies, and a mintball. In 2013, there was a town in the North-West that | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
won trophies for fun. So, who better to sing about their success than a | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
man who loves the place so much he now lives there, here's Wiggins on | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
Wigan. This is Wigan. Pride of the North West. Trophy town. | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
The lesson of 2013 is never write Wigan off. This is a town with | :37:16. | :37:25. | |
history. Sprinkled with a bit of salt. Sam Tomkins wins it for Wigan. | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
As a fan from the start of the season it was never in any doubt. I | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
desperately wanted to win that Challenge Cup. We are no strangers | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
to success. But this year... It's been unbelievable. Watson's header | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
has won the FA Cup Final for Wigan Athletic! Do you know, I had a | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
dream. I dreamt we'd play Manchester City in the final and we'd win 1-0 | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
in the last minute. What a day in their history. As a kid you dream | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
about playing an FA Cup final but to score a goal, the winning goal, is | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
something you can't really explain. Well, if I say it made me cry, it | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
really did. It's not always been easy. Three tries for Warrington, | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
without Wigan touching the ball. But when you're on the canvas, it's best | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
to get back up. They've turned it right around. Probably one of the | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
best Wigan performances ever. I get goose bumps thinking about the | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
tries. Sam's probably given me about 30 tries this year. Given him a | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
career! When you've got spirit and a bit of salt you can do anything. | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
Even the impossible. To win all three, is something really, really | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
remarkable. There must be something in the water. This is Wigan. And | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
this was our year. What a year for Wigan! And, for many of the double | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
winning Warriors, their season wasn't over, as they had a Rugby | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
League World Cup to focus on. There were big crowds, big games, big hits | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
and big hopes for England. But, in the end, it all came down to the big | :39:07. | :39:16. | |
two. This is the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. They are in. What a game, | :39:17. | :39:34. | |
what a game! The hat-trick. My word! An outrageous rugby league try. He | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
is in for another. Every game a classic. England against New Zealand | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
in the semifinal. He has scored. A moment for heroes. | :39:47. | :40:04. | |
He has nailed it. He has nailed it. This is it. The 2013 Rugby League | :40:05. | :40:13. | |
World Cup final. It's Slater. Billy Slater is loving this World Cup | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
Final. This will cap it all off. Australia, the World Champions | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
again! What a performance by Australia, the Kangaroos are | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
certainly one of the best outfits in world sport. And that brings us | :40:28. | :40:34. | |
nicely onto our next award which is for Team of the Year. It's been | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
decided by an expert panel from the sports industry. Full details if you | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
are interested are on the website. To present the award, two huge stars | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
from their chosen fields, Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli and F1 great | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
Mark Webber. Well done on the stairs. I advised | :40:47. | :41:28. | |
you to hold on to Mark and bring him down with you. This year has been | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
incredible. You have announced your retirement. You are revelling and | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
buzzing from the Wimbledon win. The trophy actually had my name on it. | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
It is such an honour. When you win a regular trophy, you win a trophy. | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
When you win Wimbledon, it is a part of history. I feel it was a part of | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
history. England will always stay in my heart. Thank you. Thank you. We | :41:59. | :42:06. | |
will not see you racing Formula One any more. A retirement from the | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
sport for you. What will you miss the most? You miss the competition | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
at that level. The quickest cars against the best guys week in and | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
week out. It is extremely rewarding. I enjoyed it. I get more time to | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
watch the cricket. I have upset a few. I just want to add, it is an | :42:28. | :42:36. | |
inspirational and special night. I have really enjoyed it. So many | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
great stories. It has been one of the most special nights in sport. I | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
am sure plenty of people want to talk cricket It has been a great | :42:47. | :42:55. | |
year. With you in the bar. Here are the top three contenders for Team of | :42:56. | :42:58. | |
the Year. The British and Irish Lions certainly roared down under in | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
2013. They scored a memorable test victory against Australia, their | :43:04. | :43:05. | |
first tour success for 16 years. Team Europe's women's golfers | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
created history in 2013 by winning the Solheim Cup in America for the | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
first time, and they did so in style, by 18 points to ten. And Team | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
Sky once more hit the heights as they won the Tour de France for a | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
second successive year with their main man, Chris Froome, taking the | :43:21. | :43:31. | |
coveted yellow jersey. A great year. Could you please do us the honours | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
and tell us the team of the year? The team of the year for 2013 is the | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
British and Irish Lions. Mark, if you want to hand over the | :43:40. | :44:16. | |
award to the captain, Sam Warren. Are you going to come and join in? | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
Sam, I'm sure you want to say a few words. By the way, my advice, that | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
trophy is not going to be easy to sleep with as the trophy as you | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
slept with on the way home from the victory in Australia. That was | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
actually - a lot of people asked me about that. I actually staged that. | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
To credit to my acting skills. I fooled a lot of people on that. What | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
a great honour to win Sports Personality of the Year after a | :44:44. | :44:45. | |
fantastic Series. I'm sure you want to speak on behalf of the whole | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
team. On behalf of everyone at the British and Irish Lions. A lot of | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
players can't make it because they are fulfilling European commitments | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
with their clubs. It is incredible to be receiving this. It is not the | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
15 guys who take the field on the first, second or Third Test. There | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
is a backroom staff of maybe 35 or 40 people and about 70 or 80 of us | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
working towards the same goal. Fantastic we can achieve that. A | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
massive thank you on behalf of everybody there, a great achievement | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
and one we will all remember. An Australian Mark Webber loved giving | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
you that award as well. Congratulations to the Lions, ladies | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
and gentlemen. Our 2013 Team of the Year. | :45:29. | :45:30. | |
APPLAUSE There are three ways you can vote | :45:31. | :45:47. | |
for your BBC Sports Personality of the Year 20130. Mobile, landline or | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
online: A reminder of all voting numbers are | :45:53. | :46:31. | |
available to view on the red button. Voting closes shortly. If you | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
haven't made your vote yet, do it now. You've not got long left to | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
vote. Looking ahead to next March, it's Sport Relief and back ever with | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
Sport Relief Games. You can enter now and run, swim or vibele at over | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
1,000 venues in the UK. Join in on the fun and games. It | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
should be as special as ever. Here is a taster of things to come. | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
Welcome to this very special Sport Relief Strictly Come Dancing. Four | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
of the country's top Paralympians. Zbll That fun all starts on March | :47:06. | :47:23. | |
21st. Boxing now and time to big-up our World Champions, Scotland's | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
Ricky Burns retained his WBO lightweight world title and Scott | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
Quigg continued his unbeaten record as a pro and became the WBA bantam | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
lightweight champion but 2013 was the year of the snake, Karl Carl | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
'The Cobra' Froch. One of the all-time finest boxers | :47:43. | :47:59. | |
ever to lace on the gloves. What a finish by Carl Froch. Carl Froch, | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
down on the seat of his trucks. It is that warrior instinct drawing him | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
him back into the fight. Can Froch detonate another one of those big | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
right hands? It comes down to willpower. One of Britain's fighting | :48:13. | :48:19. | |
heroes. He is the world champion. Ladies and gentlemen, Carl Froch. | :48:20. | :48:39. | |
APPLAUSE I'm very impressed with running down | :48:40. | :48:49. | |
the stairs. You beat Kessler and an explosive fight against George | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
Groves. A four-time World Champion. Not a quiet year. A great year. | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
Extra special. My first-ever career defeat was against Kessler. I got | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
the chance to avenge that in front of a packed audience at the O 2. A | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
fantastic event for me. I became four time champion of the world and | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
avenge that loss which was, for me a very proud moment but special for my | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
coach Rob McCracken. I'm very pleased for him. We do it as a team. | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
How tough, though, was the fight against George? He is here tonight. | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
It was very tough. He done himself proud. A lot of credit to him. He | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
got off to a very, very good start. APPLAUSE | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
I think you saw there, he put me on the seat of my pants in round 1. To | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
get back up and then fight back and then close the show in round 9 in | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
the way I z I think it was very, very tough to do that against a | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
young, fresh, hungry, unbeaten fighter like George Groves but | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
that's what World Championship fighting is all B it is difficult at | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
top level. And finally, what is next for you? Next for me, I really want | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
to enjoy Christmas. No-one has mentioned Christmas tonight, | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
actually. I want to have a nice Christmas with Rachael and our two | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
kids and in the New Year think about what I'm going to do and what the | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
future holds. I'm not hanging the gloves up yet. It's an option but I | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
don't think I'm ready to retire yet. Next year should be a fantastic year | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
again. We definitely want to see more of you. Congratulations on | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
another great year. 2013 was also memorable for more of our champion | :50:25. | :50:32. | |
performers. England lost hope after a poor summer at the Women's Euros, | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
but then new hope. Unbeaten so far in World Cup qualification. | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
Scotland, too. Liverpool Women's Super League champions. | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
Liam Phillips, BMX World Champion for the first time. Going with | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
gravity on a mountain bike, Rachael Atherton. Defying gravity, tumbling, | :50:57. | :51:05. | |
Tai Woffinden. Trampolining, the British Synchronised Team. A first | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
Euro hockey final for 22 years. England losing on penalties to | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
Germany - not so new. A 3-0 white wash of Australia. England netball | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
celebrating in style. A third world title for Nick Matthew. The | :51:23. | :51:25. | |
Commonwealths in Glasgow, next. Before then, the winter Olympics. | :51:26. | :51:32. | |
Our world class winners, Elyse, Christie. Scotland's women on ice. | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
Shelly Rudman go flat out, fast. And James Woods. Get ready for the world | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
of slope-style skiing. They are all on their way to Sochi. | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
We wish all our Olympians well. As you can see, it's just, what, 53 | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
days until the games begin. Let's hope we can strike gold in Sochi. | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
And you will be able to follow the winter Olympics on the BBC across | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
all our platforms. The countdown for that is on. A reminder that time is | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
also counting down for you to vote for your Sports Personality of the | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
Year. You have approximately ten minutes left. If you haven't done it | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
yet, do it now. Time for our next award, the | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
overseas personality. In to 13, we have seen wonderful performances. U | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
sane bolt's three golds at the world champ Championships in Moscow was | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
matched by fellow Jamaican, Shelly-Ann Frazer-Pryce. They both | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
won, 100, 200 and sprint relays. We saw a,back from Rafael Nadal. Two | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
Grand Slams for him, making it 13 in total and the same French and US | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
Open triumphs for Serena Williams. That's 17 year slams and counting | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
for her. But this year, the panel unanimously | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
agreed to reward a man who re-wrote the Formula 1 record books. He raced | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
to 13 wins, which included nine victories on the trot, giving him a | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
fourth successive title N 2013, there was only one man in pole | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
position, Sebastian Vettel. -- in 2013. | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
# The force, it has a lot of power # It makes me feel like this. | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
COMMENTATOR: Sebastian Vettel. Vettel wins in Bahrain. | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
He he wins in Canada for the first time. You've won your home race. | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
Yeah, baby. COMMENTATOR: And Vettel wins in Belgium. A brilliant drive. | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
It's Sebastian Vettel to take his 7th win. Vettel wins in Korea. His | :53:46. | :53:57. | |
9th win. A brilliant drive. Nine consecutive Grand Prix wins. Nobody | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
has ever done it. Sebastian Vettel is the 2013 World Champion. You are | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
a four time World Champion. Enjoy it. I love you guys. Good evening, | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
Leeds. Sorry I can't be there. Thank you very much for the award, BBC | :54:12. | :54:18. | |
Overseas Sports Personality Of The Year. Something special. As I like | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
to collect trophies, I have a special place to put that one. It | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
has been a fantastic year, obviously. Four titles in a row. A | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
lot of wins this year. Once again, a big thank you. Have a fun night and | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
enjoy. APPLAUSE | :54:36. | :54:44. | |
Congratulations to Sebastian. One more trophy to put in that rather | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
large cabinet. From the fast lane of Formula 1 to the fast lane of | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
football. It was to be a year full of romance, drama and thrills. The | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
stories of 2013, certainly reminded us why we call it the beautiful | :54:58. | :55:05. | |
game. Nothing beats waking up on match day. That indescribable | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
feeling in the pit of your stomach. The walk to the ground. A glimpse of | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
the turf. The smell of the changing rooms. We've all done it, putting on | :55:13. | :55:15. | |
your shirt and running out, imagining you are playing for | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
Brazil. But miracles do happen, from the league basement to the Cup | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
Final. This is a historic day for Bradford. Days never to be | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
forgotten, regardless of the result. Bradford, nil, Swansea - 5. Even | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
nightmares can be overcome. One year on from missing a penalty in the | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
Champions' League Final, who'd have guessed? Robben must now score and | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
he does score. It's not far from football's from here, you know, from | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
football's grass roots to the pinacle. For a boy to dream of | :55:51. | :55:58. | |
flying volleys and league titles. And Van Persie thrashes it home. | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
Manchester United, champions. It is a fabled journey that once was made | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
from Govan to the top of the world. The greatest managerial career of | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
modern times. And a quiet family man from South Wales who went that bit | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
further and became the Galactico. If you don't believe in fairy tales, | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
how does a young player on loan sent out nine times, return to make his | :56:24. | :56:31. | |
England debut and do this? He scores. What a debut for Andros | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
Townsend! Football, wherever it's played is about moments that allow | :56:37. | :56:47. | |
us to dream. This is our time. Ow! A smack in the face for Warren Brown, | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
who by the way, your useless fact of the night, spent ten years being a | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
professional Thai boxer. He said we all need to dreams and dreams can | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
come true. Good luck to England in Brazil. Galvanising any successful | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
team is down to the coach. That is our next reward. To present is it, | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
fresh from the jungle, Rebecca Adlington and from the dancefloor, | :57:09. | :57:09. | |
Ben Cohen. Fantastic to see both of you. Both | :57:10. | :57:40. | |
of them know the value of a great coach. Here are the top four | :57:41. | :57:41. | |
contenders. Forcing force Sir Dave Brailsford's Midas touch | :57:42. | :57:55. | |
continued as Team Sky's team principal, masterminded another Tour | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
de France triumph. Andy Flower continued to inspire England's | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
cricketers after a summer Test series strike over New Zealand. His | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
team went on to beat the Aussies and win the Ashes. Warren Gatland also | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
had a fine summer against Australia as he galvanised the British and | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
Irish Lions to a memorable Test series success for the first time | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
since 19 # 97. And evan Lendl oversaw an historic Wimbledon | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
triumph for Andy Murray as his Grand Slam winning experience helped give | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
the Scot that extra edge. Becky has the envelope. Who is the | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
winner? The winner is Warren Gatland. | :58:38. | :58:49. | |
Many congratulations. If you would like to say a few | :58:50. | :59:15. | |
words, you may. Thank you very much. This is a reflection of the | :59:16. | :59:22. | |
people who are involved. Two years of meticulous planning and | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
preparation from the logistics manager, some great coaches, the | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
medical team, sports and conditioning staff, analysts and | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
other staff. And, of course, the players. I keep in mind in myself, | :59:36. | :59:42. | |
great players make great coaches. Thank you very much. He is very | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
humble in accepting the award. Congratulations. We're very close to | :59:46. | :00:00. | |
announcing the winner of the 2013 BBC Sport's Personality of the Year. | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
And I can tell you that the phone lines and online vote has now | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
closed. Please do not call as your vote will not count and you may be | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
charged, the website will also not allow any more votes to be | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
registered. As well as some wonderful sporting performances in | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
2013, it has also been a year when we have lost some close friends and | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
icons none more so than Nelson Mandela, who was buried today. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Mandela once said... Sport has the power to change the world, to | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
inspire and to unite in a way little else does. And, boy, did he use it? | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Who can forget the moment when he presented the Rugby Union World Cup | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
to South African captain Francois Pienaar in 1995? It was one of the | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
20th century's defining images. As we remember some of the great | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
friends and sporting colleagues who have passed away this year, Nelson | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Mandela's words are more relevant than ever. What counts in life is | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
not the mere fact we have lived. It is what difference we have made to | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
the lives of others that will determine the significance of the | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
life we lead. Temp # my shirt is torn. These shoes | :01:04. | :01:40. | |
are born. My blood has been drawn but still I am strong. | :01:41. | :02:05. | |
# I keep, I keep... Keep running. I keep... Keep coming. I keep. Keep | :02:06. | :02:26. | |
running. Oh, no. I keep, keep running. I keep coming. | :02:27. | :02:40. | |
# giving up never crossed my mind. I feel like I am a force of nature. | :02:41. | :02:53. | |
Trying to stop a river when it wants to rise. Trying to stop the flames | :02:54. | :03:08. | |
of a burning fire. I keep... Keep running. I keep... Keep coming. I | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
keep. Keep coming. # I keep... Keep running. I keep... | :03:13. | :03:30. | |
Keep running. No, I keep... Keep coming. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
People we have loved, admired and last. | :03:39. | :04:22. | |
Thank you to John Newman and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Now, it's | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
the 60th anniversary of the programme. We are going to celebrate | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
that landmark by presenting a unique Diamond Award to a unique sporting | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
icon. He was born on New Year's Eve, 1941 in Govan, Glasgow, and so began | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
the life of one of football's greatest men. After 16 years as a | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
player, he turned to management, a job in which he would exceed and | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
excel. In 1986, after a successful eight years at Aberdeen, he was | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
appointed as the man to transform Manchester United, and the rest is | :04:52. | :04:52. | |
history. In a 26 year period, he won a | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
staggering 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
four League Cups and two Champions League triumphs. In May, his | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
retirement came as a shock. The boss had gone but he will never be | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
forgotten. The record of Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson will last | :05:21. | :05:21. | |
forever. SIR ALEX FERGUSON: No one's prepared | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
for the United job because it's just a unique job. You've got to be able | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
to make decisions which are unpopular. But know you're right. | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
And I think I can do that. You have been the most fantastic experience | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
of my life. They say the best come but once in a lifetime and never the | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
like are seen again. Bruce, yes! Unbelievable! Something amazing | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
happened here. The Theatre of Dreams. He dared to dream and we | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
followed. That is the moment Old Trafford has been waiting for since | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
1967. Faded glories were all around. He would have to start again. There | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
is a smile on the face of the United manager. Some joy at last for Alex | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Ferguson. United against the world. In English football they have no | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
equal. He circled the wagons protecting all who served him. Trust | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
like that can't be bought. The man they all call The Boss. Building a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
club with kindred spirits. A father figure. A confidant. A winner. The | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
master of the mind games. A word. A pause. A glare. There's nothing | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
wrong with losing your temper, nothing wrong. There was always only | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
one way. Altering the landscape of football. He derailed a dynasty. | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Cantona! And built an empire. Can you believe it, Manchester United | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
have won the Champions League! Time after time, year after year, he kept | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
us hungry, hungrier than the rest. That is very, very special. Never | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
dated or out of touch. He was the agenda. The leader. The one to beat. | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
We silenced the neighbours in his final flourish. The title stays in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Manchester but Manchester is red again. The greatest? History will | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
tell a tale of a man without equal, leaving a generation that knows only | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
success. Who believes it would never, could never end. The most | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
remarkable career British football management has ever seen. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
What of an encore? Not this time. Not now. Just memories. | :07:58. | :08:13. | |
I am delighted to be joined by Manchester United greats, past and | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
present, who have seen him become the most successful British football | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
manager of all time. He made the impossible come true. | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
To fight the unbeatable foe. Please welcome, Sir Alex Ferguson. | :08:35. | :08:59. | |
What a fantastic reception, Sir Alex! It is wonderful so many of | :09:00. | :10:17. | |
your friends and family are here tonight. One special somebody sadly | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
though couldn't be here but he has sent this message. Hi, boss. I had | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
this chance to send you a message and I will share with everyone, what | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
you did for me, which is unbelievable. And I never forget in | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
my life. I remember when I arrived in Manchester, 18 years old. As I | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
said before many, many times, you were like a father to me. In | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
football, you gave me many opportunities, you teach me many | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
things and I feel glad to send this message. I feel glad to send you | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
this message. I remember when I was there in the club, I asked for the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
shirt number 28. And you gave me the number seven. You put me under a lot | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
of pressure but after you said, no problem, you're going to deserve to | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
put this shirt on your body because you are a fantastic player. You | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
teach me the way how to be a good professional, a good boy. And you | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
deserve this award because you are a fantastic man, you are a fantastic | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
person and you are the number one. Have a good evening and we will keep | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
in touch. Take care. Thanks of course to Cristiano | :11:32. | :11:52. | |
Ronaldo. A wonderful tribute, Sir Alex, from one of Manchester | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
United's greatest ever players. We have our award winner. Now we just | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
need the trophy. To present it, please welcome your friend and | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
fellow Manchester United and England legend, Sir Bobby Charlton. | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
I am sure you would like to say a few words. Sir Bobby, thank you. You | :12:10. | :12:46. | |
are one of the reasons that I existed as long as I did in the | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
early days at Manchester United. He believed in me. He believed in the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
direction that Manchester United were taking in terms of producing | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
young players. Bobby played an integral part in that and I thank | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
him for that. The experience of being a club manager at Manchester | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
United, I do not know how you could explain it. All these lads behind me | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
played a magnificent part. They deserve the recognition that I | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
received tonight because it was always a team effort. From the | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
staff, everyone, directors who supported me, and the players I had | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
to deal with. An incredible array of talent and fantastic footballers. | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
They set the bar themselves a lot of times. Sometimes we had to maybe be | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
positive and motivate them but you have something inside you. You have | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
an engine inside you and it is easier to work with. These lads had | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
that. They had a dynamism about them. It makes it easier for the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
manager. I would just like to... I am going to say this now. In Leeds, | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
getting a welcome like that, fantastic. Thank you. | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
I'm used to you booing me, when I come down here. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
BOOS You didn't let me down. But listen, this is a wonderful thing | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
for me. Thank you to the BBC and everyone who gave me this award. To | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
my family and my wife - well she doesn't go to these things - my | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
grandson is with me tonight. So Jake will be very proud to be with me | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
tonight. I've had a great life a great career. I'm still busy. I've | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
not gone away. But you know something, I picked the right time. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
27 years in this industry is very, very difficult. I'm enjoying my | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
retirement. Once again, thank you very much. | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
APPLAUSE Our Diamond Award winner, Sir Alex | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Ferguson. APPLAUSE | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
Fantastic, I'm glad he acknowledged the Leeds' response there. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Congratulations to Sir Alex. There is one more magical, historical | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
moment still to come, as we reveal, for the 60th time, the BBC Sports | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Personality of the Year. Time for the BBC Sports Personality | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
of the Year. Henry Cooper. Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne. Jayne | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Torvill. Christopher Dean. Nick Faldo. Paula Radcliffe. | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
Joe Calzaghe. Chris Hoy. David Beckham. Ryan Giggs. Mark Cavendish. | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
Bradley Wiggins. Here are the contenders for 2013: | :16:18. | :16:36. | |
It's now time to reveal the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
2013. And Sir Alex has been joined my last year's winner, Sir Bradley | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
Wiggins. They'll present the awards in the arena and in Miami, alongside | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Andy Murray, just in case is nar Tina Navratolova. | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
All votes have been the counted and independently verified. So let's | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
find out the results. Bradley, who is in third place. | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
In third, is AP McCoy. APPLAUSE | :17:10. | :17:43. | |
Well done, AP. Bradley, please, tell us who will be runner-up this year? | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
In second place, Leigh Halfpenny. Congratulations Leigh. So, Bradley, | :17:48. | :18:27. | |
that leaves one thing. Could you please tell us, who is the BBC | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Sports Personality of the Year for 2013? The 2013 Sports Personality of | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
the Year is... Andy Murray. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :18:38. | :18:37. | |
Force forcing I'm so pleased you actually got | :18:38. | :19:31. | |
given the trophy this year, Andy. Many congratulations. Please say a | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
few words to us here. Yeah, firstly I would like to thank Martina for | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
giving this to me. She is possibly the greatest tennis player of all | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
times. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. I have a few people | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
to thank. Thank you. I'd like to thank my family, first. There is a | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
lot of them there in the crowd supporting me since I was a kid, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
making a lot of sacrifices for me. I couldn't have done it without you, | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
so, thank you. I would also like to thank my team. They are all standing | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
right behind the camera here. They have been with me for a very long | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
time. They have put in a lot of hard work and I also couldn't have done | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
it without them. It is a big team effort. So, thank you to everyone | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
right behind the camera. APPLAUSE | :20:32. | :20:46. | |
And finally, would like to thank all the public who voted for giving me | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
so much support over the last couple of years. It has made a huge, huge | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
difference around Wimbledon. I couldn't have done it without you. I | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
know sometimes I'm not the easiest person to support, but I've had a | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
lot of pressure on me for a long time. I'm glad I finally managed to | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
breakthrough. No matter how excited I try to sound, my voice still | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
sounds incredibly boring. So I'm very happy and excited right now. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
But that's just my voice, I'm sorry. APPLAUSE | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
And, finally, I'm very sorry I couldn't be there tonight. I | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
couldn't have got into the position I'm in, if I didn't take my training | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
and my preparation extremely hard. I have been doing it for the last | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
five, six years. I've dedicated probably the last 10 to 15 years of | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
my life to this. So, thank you very much everyone. I'm sorry I couldn't | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
be there. Thank you. APPLAUSE | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2013 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Andy | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
Murray. APPLAUSE | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
Many congratulations to all our winners tonight and thank you for | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
making it another memorable year of sport. And thank you to everyone | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
here in Leeds for making it such a special evening, and, of course, to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
all of you at home as well. Have a very, merry Christmas. Andy, | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
congratulations, merry Christmas to you and your team out there. Well | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
done to Andy and to all our winners tonight. Good night. | :22:48. | :22:57. |