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Welcome to Liverpool, heart of the Industrial Revolution, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:07 | |
birthplace of The Beatles, a European City of Culture and Sport - | 0:00:07 | 0:00:12 | |
Liverpool, Everton and Aintree. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:13 | |
And now home to Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
This city has got a lot to offer | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
and, if you're a sports fan, so did 2017. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
It's going to be gold! | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
Great Britain and Northern Ireland silver medal! | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Celtic are the champions once again! | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
CHEERING | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
-Wow. -I just witnessed greatness. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
A seventh victory for David Weir! | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
Anthony Joshua has got Wladimir Klitschko! | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
That's got to be gold for Daley! | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
Peacock's going to take the gold! | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
Blue is the colour of the Premier League winners! | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
He's a one-man world superpower! | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
Aaron Ramsey scores for the Gunners! | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Chris Froome has won the Tour de France! | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
What a year he's had! | 0:01:07 | 0:01:08 | |
This kid is unbelievable! | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Kane! | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
Shrubsole, England's hero! | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
Double world champion, Bianca Walkden! | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
England, World Cup winners! | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Lewis Hamilton is a four-time Formula 1 world champion! | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
2017 was another massive year for sport | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
and it's produced 12 worthy contenders | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
from 12 different sports all vying to be crowned | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2017. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
To guide us through the shortlist, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
I'm delighted to be joined by font of all knowledge Richard Osmond, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
from Pointless, amongst other things. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
And two-time world diving champion Tom Daley. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
-Welcome, guys. -Thank you. -Thank you. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
So much to choose from, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:52 | |
but what has stood out for you sporting-wise in 2017, Richard? | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
Well, aside from this amazing shortlist, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
I'm a huge fan of an underdog story | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
so I thought that the FA Cup this year was absolutely sensational. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
If I had to pick out one moment, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
probably you'd have to say Lincoln winning late on against Burnley, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
becoming the first club in over 100 years, first non-league club, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
to get to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
And, for you, to win a World Championship eight years | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
after your first, Tom, and still look like you need ID | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
to get into even the library is an incredible thing. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Yeah, I mean, I was just a baby back in 2009 and, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
eight years later, I'm still going strong | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
-but now the grandad of the team instead of the baby. -Good stuff. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
Well, have you ever wondered how the shortlist | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
for Sports Personality Of The Year is decided? | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
It's not that straightforward. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
Here's Colin Murray to tell you more. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
Hello, I'm Colin Murray. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
Behind me are gathered 12 very angry men and women around a table | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
to decide the 2017 shortlist for the Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
There are top journalists in that room, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
there are great sports people in that room, and then there's me. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
Let's do it. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
Hello and welcome to our session this morning. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
It's a really great group to be part of | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
cos it's a very, very lively debate, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
in the best possible sense, and very different perspectives. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
Growing up as a kid, dreaming of becoming a sports person, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
one of the first things that you see that you go | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
"I want to be there one day" | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
is the Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
You tend to focus on what has that individual done, | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
what's their back story? What's their story in terms of | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
how they've achieved what they've achieved? | 0:03:22 | 0:03:23 | |
And they need not necessarily have won something incredible. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
-It just might be their journey. -You don't necessarily do it | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
for these awards. You do it because you want to be very good | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
at your sport. But then to think at the end of the year | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
you'll also get recognised by the nation, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
it just adds almost a bit of icing on top of the cake. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
We had some really, really great discussions. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
We all came to a consensus, in the end, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
and it's a list that we're really proud of | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
and feel is very, very strong. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
That was a long, long debate. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
My idea to just have all of the Northern Ireland squad | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year didn't get through, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
but what a cracking dozen it is, and it's now up to you to decide. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:59 | |
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
Well, over the next hour, we're going to hear from | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
all of this year's contenders and hear from some top sports stars | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
who've won this iconic trophy in the past. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
And, just like five years ago, | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
all eyes were on the Olympic Stadium in London. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
This time for the World Athletics Championships. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
And, just like 2012, Mo Farah was the one to beat. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
And who better to talk you through his incredible story than | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
a man who won Sports Personality Of The Year in 1974, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
and commentated on all of Mo's achievements? | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
And with an insatiable appetite for gold. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
He's a one-man world superpower! | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
It's gold for Farah! | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
It's a big year, 2017, | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
to have the World Championship right on our doorstep. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
It was incredible and for me the biggest thing really was | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
winning the gold and the silver. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
That 10K race in London was one of the hardest races of my life. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
He knows what he has to do from this point in, but they're making it | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
hard, they're making it tough and Mo Farah comes to the front. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
I ran four seconds outside my personal best and that was tough. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
He was even tripped on the last lap and, you know, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
the strength of the man, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:14 | |
the inner strength he's got, the physical strength, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
kept him on his feet, kept his balance, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
and there was only one thing he was going to do that night in London - | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
it was to win the gold medal. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:22 | |
He's going to take another world title. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
He's a one-man world superpower. It's gold for Farah! | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
5,000 metres - cameras trained on one man, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
a moment of history they hope. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
Tactically, I think | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
I did everything that I could do in order for me to win that race. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
Mo's under a little bit of pressure. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
He's got to do what he's done before. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
But there was just a better man on the day | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
and there's nothing you can do. Better opposition won on that day. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Mo Farah fights for the silver. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
That's the end of a fantastic track career. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
I enjoyed my track career and I'm sure next year | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
when I do marathon stuff, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
whenever the major championship is on and you're watching it, going, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
"I was in that position once," then that's when you start to reflect. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
There's only the great Carl Lewis | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
and Usain Bolt that have got any more Olympic gold medals | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
in individual events, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
and then when you look at his World Championship performances, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
he's won six gold medals. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
The only athlete in the history of the World Athletics Championships | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
who's got more than six gold medals is the great Usain Bolt. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
So, when you put him in the record books, he's, like, right up there. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year was a fantastic occasion. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
It was completely different to what it is now. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
It was low-key, comparatively. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:33 | |
However, the accolade of being voted by the BBC viewers | 0:06:33 | 0:06:38 | |
was then a huge honour, remains a huge honour. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
It was a pleasure to win it. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:42 | |
It's a pretty amazing feeling | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
to be called one of the greatest athletes in Britain. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
You know, I just love what I do | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
and I just want to continue running and do what I do best. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Having a dream and following that dream hasn't been easy | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
but it's been worth it. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
Another vintage year for Britain's greatest ever track | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
and field athlete, Sir Mo Farah, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
and if you think Mo does a lot of laps of the track, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
this guy does even more. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
2017 saw Lewis Hamilton become Britain's most successful | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Formula 1 driver of all time, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
eclipsing a certain Scotsman's 44-year-old record. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
I think Lewis Hamilton is a very good driver indeed. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
I love racing at the moment. I think my only goal | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
is really just to continue to try and raise the bar. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
He took my record away by winning four, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
but I had held the record for 44 years, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
so it was due to be changed. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
You can hear the cheers and applause from the Australian crowd, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
80,000 of them, Vettel winning the opening Grand Prix of the season. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
I'm not here to finish second place or finish sixth | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
or anywhere below first. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:44 | |
Hamilton is victorious in Barcelona. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
-There, he brake tested me! What the -BLEEP -is going on? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
CRASH! | 0:07:57 | 0:07:58 | |
Lewis Hamilton wins the British Grand Prix. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Mercedes have swapped on the line and it's Bottas third | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
and Lewis Hamilton fourth. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
Have I just made a decision that I'm going to | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
regret for the rest of my life? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
I started racing when I was eight, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:13 | |
Dad had four jobs just to keep us carting. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
I think Lewis has a huge gift of natural talent | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
and what you've got to do is match that natural talent with what's up | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
here, the little grey cells. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
The second half of this season, I think, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
Lewis has driven better than he's ever driven before. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
He's just become the all-time pole position record holder | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
in Formula 1. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
69 pole positions for Lewis Hamilton. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
When it rains, that's beautiful for me. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
It's a really good start from Raikkonen | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
The two Ferraris collide and that has paved | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
the way for Lewis Hamilton to win the Singapore Grand Prix of 2017. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
People were talking about it a lot. I remember trying to ignore that. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
I've just got to get in and do the job that I'm ready to do. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
-He hit me deliberately. -Not sure, Lewis. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Only once this season has he finished outside of the top five, | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
but it doesn't matter, because Lewis Hamilton | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
is a four-time Formula 1 world champion. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
Just so grateful for all your hard work this year. God bless you. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
I think the results speak for themselves and ultimately | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
when people then remind me that I'm the most successful British | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
driver to have ever lived, then that's, er... | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
how can you describe it? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
To be nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year, | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
it's something very special. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:33 | |
It's a wonderful night and it's just a nice thing to win. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
Every single championship that I've competed in, it's not been easy | 0:09:37 | 0:09:41 | |
to face the down days that you have but still I rise. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
From a slow start, excuse the pun, | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
it's been a fantastic year for Lewis Hamilton. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
He's broken so many records, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
perhaps - and hearing Sir Jackie there talk about it - | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
the most notable is that 44-year record, four Formula 1 titles now. | 0:09:54 | 0:10:00 | |
It really puts him up amongst the greats. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Yeah, that's the real deal, only Fangio | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
and Schumacher have won more, because Schumacher has won seven. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
Fangio - he could equal if he wins one more. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
I think even more impressive is he's got the most | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
pole positions of anyone, all time, of Formula 1. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
Beat Schumacher's record which was very impressive. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
He's also the only person on this list, on the shortlist, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
whose actually won Sports Personality Of The Year | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
before and only four people have ever won it | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
more than once. Can you name who those are? | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
I'm going to have little questions for you throughout this evening. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
Well, I know that Formula 1 is - | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
-unless you want answer this first, Tom - is very successful. -It is. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
-Damon Hill. -Damon Hill won it twice. -Nigel Mansell. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
-Nigel Mansell won it twice. -I think I was only alive for Murray. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
-He won it three times. -Three times. -OK, OK, yeah. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
There's only one other person who's won it twice. Shall I let you know? | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
-Henry Cooper. -Sir Henry Cooper. Absolutely right. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
So he'd only be the fifth person on that list | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
-if he were to win this. -Interesting that Formula 1 does so well, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
-motor racing does so well, isn't it? -It is. -Their fans are galvanised. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
I think it's exactly that. They've got fans who are absolutely adore | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
Formula 1, so when they've got someone who is a world champion | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
they have a very, very good chance of winning the title. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
Now, strangely, there are parallels, I feel, with your career. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
-Not only is it high speed, dangerous... -Yes. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
..risky and obviously you do it with a lot less protection around you... | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
-That's true. -..you both started your careers | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
incredibly young, came to prominence at a young age, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
what is it like when there's that level of expectation on you? | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
I mean, there's always lots of pressure, | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
especially if you're successful at a young age, but you don't have | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
to rise to that expectation or you fall and I think it really just | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
comes down to, you just have to put everything into every single | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
moment, so you go into a competition with no regrets. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
We are going to miss Mo Farah - what a legend he's been. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
Three Olympic Games, you've been in the same team as him, Tom. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
-What's he like to be around? -I mean, he's just such a great character. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
He's so lovely, especially his family. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
I got to actually meet his family in 2012 and it's just | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
so sweet to see how supportive they are of him | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
and, you know, he's superhuman, you know, he's won so many medals | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
and he's just definitely going to go down in the history books. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
His dedication, his sacrifice, his life has been about running | 0:11:55 | 0:12:00 | |
and so no wonder he has eclipsed so many of the greats, | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
-but who even comes close to him? -I don't think anyone comes close | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
in terms of the numbers, but the interesting thing, | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
talking about what we're talking about this evening, | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
is he's never won Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
Third is the best he's ever done. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:13 | |
There's a few people who've come second twice. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Sally Gunnell and Denise Lewis both came second twice, | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
but two other people who came second twice but never won - Frank Bruno, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Bobby Charlton as well. Ronnie O'Sullivan never won, | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
but Mo Farah, by a mile, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
surely the best British sportsperson | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
never to have yet to win this award. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
Let's see if those people who feel he should put their money | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
where their mouth is in 2017. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
Now, when you think of British tennis, these days, | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
all thoughts turn to Andy Murray, however, | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
2017 represented a breakthrough year for Johanna Konta. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
It's 40 years since Virginia Wade won both Wimbledon | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
and Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
Four decades later, | 0:12:46 | 0:12:47 | |
Jo gripped the nation as she came oh so close. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:51 | |
Wimbledon is special - to play here, | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
to win here, even just to be here, it's a privilege. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
There's a thrill walking through the gates at Wimbledon. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
You just can't wait to get on court. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
I find it the most relaxing and actually the most tranquil | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
out of all the slams. It really feels all about the game. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
Johanna Konta - high home hopes for her. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
She moves through to the second round with little fuss. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
She's very level-headed, she handles everything very, very well. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
Yeah, got it now. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
What a battle! Konta through | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
to the third round for the very first time. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
It's such an ultimate goal, Wimbledon, | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
especially if you are British. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
-Aggh! -Come on! | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
Jo Konta, three down, four to go. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
The Briton never experienced expectation | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
like she's experiencing in this part of the world at the moment. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:48 | |
Jo Konta - Wimbledon quarterfinalist. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
You feel like you're in this big stadium of noise | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
at that moment when you walk out. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
I definitely felt the investment from the nation at the time | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
and definitely felt their desire and their want for me to do well. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
It's over. British tennis history is made. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
We've not had a day like this for 39 years, | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
a British woman in the semifinals of Wimbledon. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
I was lucky enough to be sitting in the front seat | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
of the royal box for that match. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:22 | |
As a young girl, you dream about these matches. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
So just about set - Venus Williams against Johanna Konta. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
They want it to go on, this dream for Johanna Konta | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
and the pressure grows. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
There it is. Venus Williams! | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
For Konta, it ends here and what a run she has had. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
It was definitely a highlight of my career so far. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
It didn't take me by surprise, the level that she played, | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
but I definitely wished that didn't play as well she did on the day. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
It was definitely something that I look back on | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
with incredible amount of fondness. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
The Sports Personality of 1977 is Virginia Wade. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year is more than | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
icing on the cake, it's a really meaningful award. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
Honestly, just to be nominated is a privilege. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
It's pretty impressive, all those athletes, what they've achieved | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
this year and I just feel very lucky to be counted alongside them. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
Konta made her mark at Wimbledon this summer, but north of the Thames | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
at Lord's, one woman delivered the unthinkable. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
She delivered a performance which no English cricketer | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
had ever managed before. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:35 | |
Bowler Anya Shrubsole steered the women's England cricket team | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
to victory in the World Cup final. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
We're almost ready to get under way, this ICC women's World Cup final. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
Wide of the crease she comes in. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
It's driven over the head of mid-off. Smiles on the Indian bench. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
The thing about England and World Cups across all | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
the different sports, we have a habit of not delivering | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
and India needed something like 36 | 0:15:57 | 0:15:58 | |
off 40-odd deliveries, they were strolling. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
She'd have been walking back to her mark thinking, "Oh, no." | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
Everyone will admit, even us on the field, they were the favourites | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
for most of the way through that innings. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
Shrubsole comes in, slow delivery, big appeal for LBW | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
and it's given. Shrubsole makes the breakthrough. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
That was probably the wicket that gave us a look-in. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
You always think if you get one wicket, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
then you could potentially get two or three | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
and then suddenly the pressure is right back on the Indians. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
Goswami struggling there. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
And Shrubsole picks up her fourth wicket. What a spell this is. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
For me at that point, it was about making things as simple | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
as I possibly could, so I decided to bowl two balls basically | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
and make sure that I absolutely nailed those. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
Anya had that one chance to deliver something special | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
and she certainly did that. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Shrubsole in now and bowls her - six wickets for Anya Shrubsole! | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
England's hero, England win the World Cup | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
in front of a packed house at Lord's. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
For all the hard work that we've put in as a team to come to fruition | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
and be world champions | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
is a feeling that is pretty impossible to describe. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
For me, it was like a football team being two goals down | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
with ten minutes to go. England should have lost that game, | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
she got the wickets and England end up winning the game. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
You know, if that had been an England footballer, Dele Alli | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
would have been front page, he'd have had his own open-top bus ride. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
Anya delivered exactly that. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
All I try and do is just contribute towards England winning games, | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
so to walk away and know that you've done that, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
is a pretty special feeling. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
I've got a seven-year-old daughter | 0:17:22 | 0:17:23 | |
who couldn't keep her eyes off the final. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
She'd never ever mentioned to me about playing cricket | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
and since then, she's been getting her older brother | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
to throw balls to her in the garden. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
She joined the local cricket club | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
and I think in years gone by, it'll probably... | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
The 2005 moment, you know, the amount of kids now that come | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
and say, "I only to play cricket | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
"or I watch cricket because of 2005." | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
I think that probably means more now than actually the urn. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
I hope they realise that they've motivated and given | 0:17:48 | 0:17:53 | |
an opportunity to many kids to go and pick up a bat and ball. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, England's Ashes heroes. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
I think it really shows just where women's cricket is | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
and how far it's come that you've got a female cricketer | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
who's on the shortlist for Sports Personality, | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
so it's a huge honour for me, | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
but also a representation of all the work that's been done by the team. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:16 | |
What a performance, what a moment. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
One of my favourite of the summer, I think, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
and the first time a female cricketer has ever been on this list | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
and Michael Vaughan alluded to it there, | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
it feels like a pivotal moment. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
I mean, yeah, imagine being a young girl and seeing that, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
you know, a team performing in front of a sell-out crowd, | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
like, you can achieve anything and it's really exciting see | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
women's cricket come as far as it has and it's really exciting to | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
think, that she was, back in 2001, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
the little girl that went to Lord's and now she's playing and she's... | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
That was a lovely tweet, wasn't it? | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
From her dad and her looking over the boundary | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
and saying she wanted to play in a World Cup there. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
I mean, incredible, I mean, quite apart from gender, | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
this is what Sports Personality is all about | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
and she was put under the greatest pressure of her career | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
and gave the greatest performance of her career | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
and that's what being a sportsperson is. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
Tough for a cricketer maybe to win Sports Personality. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
Three cricketers have been in the top three in the last 40 years, | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
-two of them won. Botham. -Botham, yeah. -Freddie Flintoff. -Yeah. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
And a third place for Graham Gooch, | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
but I think what an incredible performance from Anya Shrubsole. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
She said...she tweeted, "I'm very humbled to be on this list," | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
and, you know, goodness me, she's earned her place on that list. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
Well, if Anya Shrubsole is a brilliant individual | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
in a great team, Johanna Konta is very much out there on her own | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
on Centre Court in the summer, | 0:19:36 | 0:19:37 | |
with the eyes and expectations of a nation. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
We've been so used to putting all our hopes | 0:19:40 | 0:19:41 | |
on Andy Murray's shoulders, but she had a wonderful Wimbledon | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
and made history. It's been a long, long time, Richard. How long? | 0:19:44 | 0:19:48 | |
Well, '77 was the last time we had a woman in the semifinals at | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
Wimbledon which was Virginia Wade, of course, who went on to win it. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
I suspect Johanna Konta will win it at some point. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
It would be lovely if she did and the interesting thing, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
I think, in TV terms is the ratings which were enormous. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
Like, nearly 7.5 million people | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
watching that Johanna Konta quarterfinal against Halep | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
and that was the biggest ratings of any match at Wimbledon. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Bigger than the men's final, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
bigger than the Murray games, bigger than Nadal. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
Bigger than EastEnders so, you know, it's the real deal. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
People really took to her. I think we're going to see a lot more | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
of her personality as well over the next few years. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
I think the British public | 0:20:17 | 0:20:18 | |
are really going to fall in love with Johanna Konta. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
-And maybe on the Bake Off as well with her love for baking. -Yeah. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
Seems to be a theme amongst quite a lot of athletes these days... | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
-We like sweet treats. -Oh, you're a baking fan? | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
I'm a big baking fan and I saw on Instagram actually she's got | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
the same apron that I do, the Union Jack one. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
-Do you have to be an Olympian? -Yeah, I think so. -Now, that... | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
-I think so. -I like a fact. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
-I'm just going to write that down. -LAUGHTER | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
-It might come up on Pointless soon. -Yep. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
Now, Sports Personality Of The Year not only celebrates the achievements | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
of the year, it also looks back on the achievements of a lifetime. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
The gaffer, Sir Bobby Robson. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
One of the greatest evenings of my life. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
George Best. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
Thank you very much, it's wonderful to be here. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
This year's lifetime achievement, the winner is Martina Navratilova. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
This year's lifetime achievement award goes to Sir Bobby Charlton. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
Absolutely knocked out with this. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
Severiano Ballesteros. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
Thank you very much to everyone. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
Make the sacrifices, because it's worth it. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
Sir Chris Hoy. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:15 | |
Thank you so much. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
Sir Chris Hoy joining a long list of sporting luminaries there. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
From cycling on the boards to cycling on the roads and this year | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
was another record-breaking year for Chris Froome. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
A fourth yellow jersey was followed | 0:21:30 | 0:21:31 | |
by the red jersey of the Vuelta a Espana. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
Here to tell us about his story is Sir Chris Hoy, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
who won SPOTY the last time we were here in Liverpool. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
The 2008 season was the dream season, really. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
I won triple gold in Beijing, which was the dream, but I never really | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
believed it was going to happen and to finish the year | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
with the Sports Personality Trophy was the cherry | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
on top of the icing on top of the cake. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2008 is... | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
Chris Hoy. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
CHEERING | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
And then they read my name out and it was brilliant, but also | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
oh, my God, I'm going to have to think of something to say now! | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
I sort of walked up really slowly thinking, | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
"Right, don't forget anybody." | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
I would say this year, Chris Froome's sporting achievements | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
rank alongside anybody's in any sport. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
Obviously, as a cyclist, I'm biased but I think, you know, he is... | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
He could be a worthy winner this year. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
An historic day in world sport as Britain's Chris Froome | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
has become the first cyclist to win both the Tour de France | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
and Vuelta a Espana titles | 0:22:26 | 0:22:27 | |
at its current position in the racing calendar. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
You'd be hard pushed not to say | 0:22:30 | 0:22:31 | |
that he's the greatest grand tour rider of his generation. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
Four times Tour de France champion, Vuelta champion... | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
His consistency, the way that he deals with everything | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
that's thrown at him in those three-week tours. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
He doesn't seek the limelight, | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
he just wants to be the best he can possibly be | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
and he has this desire to win, win, win. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
2017 for me just has been the final product | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
of everything coming together. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
I've won the Tour de France now four times, | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
but each time, rolling into Paris, I've welled up with tears. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
It's just so emotional. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:04 | |
It marks the end of this three-week journey around France | 0:23:04 | 0:23:09 | |
that you just... | 0:23:09 | 0:23:10 | |
It feels as if you're just up against all the odds every day. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
It's just an amazing feeling, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
amazing feeling of having won the biggest bike race in the world. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Chris Froome will take part in this year's Vuelta a Espana. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
Only two other riders in history have won the Tour | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
and Vuelta in the same year. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
Normally in grand Tours, you have a few stages in between | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
that are for us climbers and GC riders. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
We can sit in the bunch | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
and get a little bit of a recovery day, if you like. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
In this year's Vuelta, every single day was just game on. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
This was by far the hardest one I'd ever done, | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
so, yeah, I'm extremely grateful to have been able to back it up | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
from the Tour de France. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:46 | |
It's a dream come true. It's just incredible. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
An award like the Sports Personality Of The Year, | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
it's an opportunity to be able to reflect on what has been | 0:23:51 | 0:23:55 | |
and it's not something we do very often. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
For me, it's quite a special time of the year to be able to look | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
back on what 2017 has been for me and what it's meant to me. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
Certainly, this year has been, I would say, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
the most amazing season of my career. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
From domination in road cycling to unrivalled consistency | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
on a motorbike. Northern Ireland's Jonathan Rea | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
won his third consecutive World Superbike title this year. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
It's simply never been done before. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
I sort of got hooked on bikes watching my dad. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
I was wanting to polish the wheels for my dad's bike | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
and like I see my son now wanting to get involved. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
I had a 50cc motocross bike and it must have been | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
crossing at the time where my grandfather passed away and | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
he was always telling me that "One day, you'll be world champion, son." | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
Johnny Rea, three times world champion in consecutive years. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
80% podium rate in the three years that he's done it, 50% win rate. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
It's unheard of. I mean, Johnny Rea won more races this year | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
than I won in my whole career. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
He just ticks every box for me, to be honest. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
Consistency, aggression, wet weather riding. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
That's the key, to be very fast | 0:25:06 | 0:25:07 | |
and very consistent and you win championships. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
It's not rocket science. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:11 | |
The key to the year was the start of the season, | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
but there's been so many keys to the year. I've... | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
I've had so many race wins this year | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
that it's kind of just made the championship. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
I didn't ever have to think about the championship | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
from a points point of view. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
I was confident going to Donington this year | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
and in race one I was doing my job at the front | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
and suddenly my tyre started losing pressure. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
All of a sudden, the bike went from underneath me | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
going down the fastest part of the circuit. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
But I made amends for it the next day by going out | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
and, you know, putting a really, really strong race win in | 0:25:45 | 0:25:49 | |
and changed the dynamic of the season. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
As soon as the lights went out on the race, I was... | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
I was ready to make it mine | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
and that is the best way I've won the championship yet. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
To win one is amazing, really, | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
so to win three is incredible. It really is. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
Obviously, Carl Fogarty holds the record, four times champion. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
Johnny could be six, seven, eight. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
I've held the record for 20 years, I think it is. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
That's long enough to hold a record. Records are made for breaking and... | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
No, I couldn't think of anyone better | 0:26:16 | 0:26:17 | |
for it to go to than Jonathan. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
I'm still with the best team in the championship, | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
I'm still with the best manufacturer in the championship, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
I'm still going to be the strongest rider in the championship, | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
so, yeah, I don't see the train slowing down any time soon. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
Come on in and join the party, please. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
World Superbike champion James Toseland. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
A pal of mine, James Toseland, got nominated in 2007. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
I remember I actually watched that night | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
and he rode onto the stage and played the piano. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
It's a really special evening of a lot of people | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
and the BBC recognising what you've achieved. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
I'd love to ride onto the stage, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
but I'm definitely not playing the piano. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
-Well, that's going to be some entrance on Sunday. -Yeah. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
Motorcycling is very, very big in Northern Ireland. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
Huge in Northern Ireland. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:01 | |
In fact, in 2015, they held a poll | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
to find Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsperson. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
And, yeah, they've had some amazing sports people. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
I'll tell you who didn't win - George Best didn't win. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
-Dame Mary Peters? -Dame Mary Peters didn't win, Rory McIlroy didn't win. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
It was a road bike racer, Joey Dunlop. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
The greatest sportsman in Northern Irish history, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
and Johnny Rea is a great heir to that legacy, I have to say. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
Is there something about the roads, do you think, | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
-that has cultivated this? -I guess there must be, yes. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
No stats on the roads? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
Well, I tell you what, I mean, Johnny Rea, it's meaningless to him | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
because he can't actually ride a bike on the road. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
He doesn't have a licence. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
-LAUGHTER -Imagine! | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
Really, he literally is only allowed to drive on private tracks. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
-He's got no... -Just as well he's good at that. -Yeah, isn't it? | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
And he is going at incredible speeds. 184mph. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:48 | |
Very close, in fact, his 0-60 in 3.12 seconds to the speed | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
that you would be entering the water, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:53 | |
-but you're just wearing budgie smugglers. -I know! | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
-We do 1.8 seconds, 0-35 miles per hour, so it's pretty quick. -Wow! | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
Faster than a motorbike. You must have big G force as well, | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
-presumably, when you're doing the... -Yeah, exactly. It was actually... | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
-The thing! -Yeah. -You know, the thing. The thing, Gabby. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
-Sorry, I'm... -Doing the somersault and twists. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
-I'm an intellectual diving judge. -Exactly. Yeah, of course. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
Yeah, the G force that we experience when we're spinning around, | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
although it's for shorter periods of time, is actually more than | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
what it is in Formula 1 and for Superbike racing too. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
Now, what's interesting about Chris Froome's year is | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
not his fourth Tour de France, it's that that was almost a warm up | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
for him to the Vuelta, which was the aim of the season. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
How do you do that as an athlete? | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
You know, you're peaking and trying to peak at the right time | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
knowing when you have to be at your very best. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 | |
Yeah, I mean, sometimes we have to train through certain competitions | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
to get to the peak competition, | 0:28:41 | 0:28:42 | |
whether it be a World Championships or the Vuelta. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
And when you're training through a competition, sometimes, | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
because you don't have the expectation | 0:28:47 | 0:28:49 | |
of wanting to go out there and win | 0:28:49 | 0:28:50 | |
and thinking about winning that competition, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
sometimes you just end up doing way better than you first expected to. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
And there's no explanation for it, really, | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
-other than the fact Chris Froome is a machine. -Yeah. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
He's absolutely incredible. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
It's like when you used the Olympics as a warm up for Splash. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
-Exactly! -It's exactly that, isn't it? | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
-You knew when you had to peak. -Yeah, exactly. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
You get the Olympics out the way and then you get into Splash. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:11 | |
But, yeah, he is a machine and, you know, to win those two events | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
and they're much closer together than they used to be, | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
the Vuelta and the Tour de France, | 0:29:16 | 0:29:17 | |
he essentially went John O'Groats to Land's End | 0:29:17 | 0:29:21 | |
five times in a row in just over a week | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
is what he did in those two events. Won both of them. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
It's an incredible achievement. If he's ever going to win | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year, you'd think it would be this year. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
Only four cyclists have ever won, but three of them have been | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
in the last ten years, so Britain's love of cycling is really peaking. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
Well, who says nice guys can't win? | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
Our next contender is one of the nicest and nastiest. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
Big AJ might come over as a gentle giant, but he can pack a punch. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:49 | |
Seconds out for Anthony Joshua. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:51 | |
2017 ranks in the sense that the hard work just starts now. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:56 | |
When your idols become your rivals, | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
you have to kind of disregard all the respect that you have for them. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:02 | |
Train hard, go through your toughest battles under the dark lights | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
so you can shine under the bright lights. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
I believe it's the biggest fight in British boxing history. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
I feel totally obsessed. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
It was a huge fight | 0:30:13 | 0:30:14 | |
and it's a lot of weight to put on somebody's shoulders. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
Klitschko is very respectful, and I took inspiration from Klitschko, | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
so the press conference wasn't the most entertaining | 0:30:20 | 0:30:22 | |
in terms of flipping tables and disrespecting each other, | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
but it showed that's not where it matters. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
Where it matters is in the ring. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:28 | |
And we are underway. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:29 | |
Anthony Joshua just taken a steam hammer of a right-hand | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
and Wladimir Klitschko is not reacting well. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
This is a toe-to-toe slugfest. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:36 | |
Wobbles down to the canvas. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
What a right-hand! | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
And Anthony Joshua is down. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:41 | |
Wladimir Klitschko in desperate trouble | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
and referee David Fields has stepped in. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
Anthony Joshua has stopped his man. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
Firstly, I thought it was a great fight. I think, you know, | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
you had all the ingredients you need in a great fight. There's drama. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
You know, they both went down. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:55 | |
AJ would never have been in that sort of fight. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
When you're fighting against an opponent | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
like Klitschko, Klitschko has been there, he's done it. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
So a lot of people are going to see what's going to happen | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
when his back's against the ropes. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:07 | |
No fight is won easily. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:08 | |
I was two inches away from losing and I don't forget... | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
..the good and the bad that come with the sport. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
You know, under them lights, in front of all them tens of thousands, | 0:31:13 | 0:31:17 | |
when you get hit on the chin and you go down, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
that's something that just comes from instinct. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:22 | |
Boxing's a great sport because you come back, | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
you defend yourself, you give what you can and after, win or lose, | 0:31:25 | 0:31:29 | |
you shake hands and show a lot of respect to your opponent. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:31 | |
He knows that he's still learning and I love that. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
You know, we never stop learning. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
Even when I retired at 37, I was still learning. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:38 | |
Still trying to learn from my mistakes | 0:31:38 | 0:31:39 | |
because we all make mistakes. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
I've seen the different sides of the table, | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
but both I can look at in a positive light | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
because both shape a person and both make a person who they are today. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:51 | |
If it wasn't for boxing, I don't know where I would be. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:53 | |
It can give people a life and better them as a person. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
The 2007 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year is Joe Calzaghe. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
Look at what AJ has done. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:04 | |
You know, at the end of the day, turned his life around. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:06 | |
He's a role model for many people. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
I've given a lot of myself to, like, the public and what I do, | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
what I've done wrong and how I've, you know, | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
found sport and what it's done for me. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
And to be nominated kind of reflects that journey that I've been on | 0:32:18 | 0:32:22 | |
and people are relating to it and understanding | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
where I'm coming from, so it's a real blessing and it's an honour. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:28 | |
It's fight night all right. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
From the champion in the ring to the champion of the mat. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
Liverpool local lass Bianca Walkden loves a scrap. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
She's good at it too. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:37 | |
This year, she became the two-time tae kwon do world champion. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
Tae kwon do's a really good martial arts. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
It requires, like, a lot of discipline, | 0:32:44 | 0:32:45 | |
a lot of respect for your opponent because you're going out there | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
and you're trying to kill each other, basically, like, for the win. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
Like, in the heavyweight girls, she is, | 0:32:51 | 0:32:53 | |
like, the most agile out of anybody, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:54 | |
so she's, like, lean, she's ripped. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:57 | |
You know, I take her kicks and it hurts, | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
like, sometimes my ribs are killing for ages. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
I started tae kwon do when I was 11 years old. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
As soon as I walked into the gym | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
and everyone was kicking each other, shouting at each other, trying | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
to knock each other out and I think, like, it just attracted me | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
there and then and here I am now. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:19 | |
Bianca is a very, very bubbly person. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:26 | |
She's lovable to be around. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:27 | |
And she was always beating her older sister up, to be fair, | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
practising, so it was in her to become a fighter. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
She's a big role model to women in her sport. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
They all really look up to her. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
Yeah, what Bianca's achieved is absolutely phenomenal. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
She's had a long, tough journey. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:46 | |
She had two ACL reconstructions. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
In the past five years, I missed a home Olympics. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:52 | |
I've had to get eight screws in my knees | 0:33:52 | 0:33:54 | |
and get it all reconstructed, like, basically start again and, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
yeah, it hasn't been an easy road for me to do, but that's | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
my motto now, like, to die trying and to never regret anything. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
It's super hard to win the World Championships once. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
You know, I've never won the worlds, so it's ridiculously hard. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
-COMMENTATOR: -Six minutes to decide who will be world champion. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
I was just so focused, like, walking in. Didn't think of nothing. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
And then as soon as I got to the middle of the court | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
and the ref said go, I don't think I even blinked. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
I just kicked and I scored instantly. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
Walkden in blue. Fires in straightaway. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
Body shot straight out the blocks. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:29 | |
From that one kick, I thought, "I'm going to win this." | 0:34:29 | 0:34:33 | |
Bianca Walkden, dominating and owning the centre of the mat. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
Walkden shuffles around well, great footwork. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
Bianca Walkden, double world champion. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:45 | |
What a performer. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:46 | |
For her to do it back-to-back is phenomenal. | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
I don't think many people in the sport have done it. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
Yeah, I did well that day! I did fight really well. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:55 | |
I showed, like, I didn't win it by a fluke. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
It was nice to come out and be like, "Yeah, I did the job." | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
It's a massive achievement for me to be nominated for SPOTY | 0:35:02 | 0:35:05 | |
and I'm so honoured, like, to be recognised | 0:35:05 | 0:35:08 | |
with all them great athletes. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:10 | |
It's fantastic. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
Scousers can't let me come last! | 0:35:12 | 0:35:14 | |
Now, Richard, there's a few firsts for Bianca Walkden. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, firstly, | 0:35:18 | 0:35:19 | |
she's the first tae kwon do practitioner - | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
which is what you call someone who does tae kwon do - | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
first one ever to be nominated, | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
so it's amazing for people to see this sport and also to see her. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
She's absolutely incredible. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:29 | |
But I was looking through to see which sports have never won | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year. There's only three | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
big British sports, I think, that have never won. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
-Darts has never won. -Gymnastics has definitely never won. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
Gymnastics has never won. Rugby league has never won. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:40 | |
They've had a second place with Kevin Sinfield. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
Gymnastics has only... Third is the best a gymnast has ever finished. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
Do you know who that would be? | 0:35:46 | 0:35:47 | |
-Tweddle, right? -Beth Tweddle came third. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
And darts, Phil Taylor has come second. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
And, of course, she lives with double Olympic champion Jade Jones. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
What's that like when you're with somebody who is living | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
and breathing the sport you're competing in? | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
I think it's something good to have a team-mate live with you | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
because if you have someone that is understanding the commitment, | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
the dedication, having to eat the right things, | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
making sure you're going to bed at the right time, | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
those little things are really make a massive difference | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
because if you're living with someone who doesn't understand sport | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
then you're not going to give yourself the best chance. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
-Have you ever done that? -Well, I actually lived... | 0:36:17 | 0:36:19 | |
Just before Rio, my synchro partner, Dan, | 0:36:19 | 0:36:20 | |
moved in with me for six weeks before we left. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
It really does help you build a dynamic as well | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
to get past just talking about the sport. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
You can actually talk about other things. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
-So you live with a synchro partner? -Yes. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:30 | |
I would love to have seen that at breakfast. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
-It must have been like that Morecambe and Wise sketch. -Exactly. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
-The two of you... -Eat our eggs at the same time. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:37 | |
Of course, a local lass, she's going to get a wonderful reception. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
-Absolutely. -So, Anthony Joshua, what a year it's been for him. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
Is he the hardest man on the planet? | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
Is it possible to quantify that? | 0:36:45 | 0:36:46 | |
Er, well, it's possible to quantify how hard he can punch. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
He can punch at 5,000 Newtons. If you know what... This is roughly... | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
-That's, like, four Newtons. -Oh! -So 5,000 is quite hard. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
No, he is. One thing you can quantify, if he wins, Joshua, | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
he'll be the tallest ever winner | 0:37:00 | 0:37:02 | |
of Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:03 | |
-Wow! -A subject close to my heart. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
He's one metre 98. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
And it was, of course, the biggest post-war | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
attendance at a boxing match of 90,000. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
He certainly has global reach in his fan base, doesn't he? | 0:37:11 | 0:37:14 | |
And it's particularly kicking off on social media as well. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:16 | |
Being congratulated by boxing greats, | 0:37:16 | 0:37:18 | |
even Arnold Schwarzenegger and a funny tweet from Stuart Broad | 0:37:18 | 0:37:21 | |
that actually said Moeen Ali was going to be his next opponent. | 0:37:21 | 0:37:24 | |
Like, I mean, can you imagine that fight? | 0:37:24 | 0:37:26 | |
It would be an interesting one. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:27 | |
Cruel beyond belief, I think. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
I mean, the next fight will be interesting, actually. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
He's got a really good chance of winning this year, | 0:37:31 | 0:37:34 | |
like lots of people have, but, you know, next year | 0:37:34 | 0:37:36 | |
if he's fighting Parker and Deontay Wilder, | 0:37:36 | 0:37:37 | |
if he can win both of those, first person | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
to unify the heavyweight division since Lennox Lewis. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:42 | |
So, you know, the future is very, very bright for Anthony Joshua. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:47 | |
We saw that future and its potential in 2012, didn't we, | 0:37:47 | 0:37:50 | |
when he won Olympic gold? | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
Did you see much of him in 2012? | 0:37:52 | 0:37:53 | |
I mean, he's just so nice. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:55 | |
I remember actually going to EIS for a regular physio appointment | 0:37:55 | 0:37:58 | |
and he walked out of one of the treatment rooms. | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
He is just a massive and he is the definition of the BFG. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:03 | |
When I met him, I thought he was quite short. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:05 | |
-LAUGHTER -Oh, yeah. Of course you would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year has always celebrated young sports stars | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
who are growing into sporting greatness. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
This guy has won Young SPOTY three times and joins a long list | 0:38:14 | 0:38:18 | |
of budding sports stars who have blossomed into sporting legends. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
Wayne Rooney, record-breaker. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
Claudia Fragapane. She's in third. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
The waiting is over. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:36 | |
My next goal really is to get to the 2008 Olympics. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
What did it mean to win Young Sports Personality Of The Year? | 0:38:51 | 0:38:54 | |
I mean, it's such an honour to be among the list of such | 0:38:54 | 0:38:58 | |
amazing sports stars and it seems so long ago now. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
I was only 12 when I won the first time and it was... | 0:39:01 | 0:39:04 | |
Yeah, I remember my dad telling me | 0:39:04 | 0:39:06 | |
and it was definitely an emotional time. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:08 | |
-Three times now. -I know, three times. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
-You're still only 23. -I know. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
Well, from the wonder kid to the comeback kid | 0:39:12 | 0:39:14 | |
and after being disqualified from all three of her events | 0:39:14 | 0:39:17 | |
at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, 2017 was a year of redemption for | 0:39:17 | 0:39:21 | |
three-time world short track speed skating champion Elise Christie. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:25 | |
We haven't seen a woman deliver gold on ice skates | 0:39:25 | 0:39:27 | |
since a certain pair Bolero-ed their way into British hearts in 1984. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:32 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:36 | |
It was amazing to win Sports Personality Of The Year, but it's | 0:39:37 | 0:39:41 | |
been a long time since someone from the ice rink has been nominated. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
Elise Christie was a figure skater until the age of 14. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:48 | |
Then she changed it a speed skating and has never looked back, | 0:39:48 | 0:39:51 | |
even after a tough winter Olympics in 2014. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:55 | |
Oh, they've gone down! | 0:39:55 | 0:39:56 | |
They've all gone down. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:58 | |
Christie has been penalised. | 0:39:58 | 0:39:59 | |
I just use my instinct and went for it and, unfortunately, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
you know, now I'm regretting that. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:03 | |
I can't believe it, Christie's been penalised again. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:08 | |
Obviously, you know, I found it hard, | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
but, you know, I've got to keep just pushing through. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:13 | |
..and takes Christie out as well. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:16 | |
I just can't believe it's happened again. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
I've spent all this time training, not to even be given the chance | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
to do that final. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
For me at the time, it was such a big loss, you know, | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
and then I also knew what everyone else had been saying | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
on social media. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:32 | |
The British speed skater Elise Christie has been the victim | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
of online bullying after a tough Winter Olympics in Sochi. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
Everyone was just abusing me online and I just withdrew from everything. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:43 | |
I just didn't talk to anyone. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
There was nothing anyone could do, I was just so scared and alone. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
I became too scared of losing the medal to win. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
I became this...a bit more timid and picked up medals for a few years. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:58 | |
I came back for last season and was risking to win | 0:40:58 | 0:41:02 | |
and not being afraid of failing | 0:41:02 | 0:41:03 | |
and now I feel I'm very much there in that place. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
It shows a lot of mental strength to come back | 0:41:06 | 0:41:09 | |
from such a disappointment. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
I think it shows how strong of a person Elise is, | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
never mind how strong she is physically, but also mentally. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
Elise Christie! | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
MUSIC: Remember The Name by Fort Minor | 0:41:20 | 0:41:25 | |
The first one I think, you know, was the biggest deal | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
cos, obviously, that's it, you've done it, | 0:41:38 | 0:41:40 | |
you'll always be a world champion | 0:41:40 | 0:41:42 | |
and I just remember screaming, like, and I never act like that. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
My emotions tend to stay in the box in public. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
It's fantastic that she could win three gold medals, | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
to win one is great but to have three, | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
what a very talented young lady. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:56 | |
It was my dream to be world champion for a while | 0:41:56 | 0:41:58 | |
but I wasn't actually aiming for the overall title yet, that was... | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
That was on a different year on the trajectory. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
It was an incredible season. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
What a story and fingers crossed for Elise in a few weeks' time | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
at the Winter Olympics. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:11 | |
Now, from blades on the ice to a blade on the track, | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
Jonnie Peacock is the double Paralympic champion. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
He's the Usain Bolt of para-athletics, strictly speaking. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:22 | |
When I was five, I was quite ill. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
I was covered head to toe in a rash. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:27 | |
It was meningitis, | 0:42:27 | 0:42:29 | |
I was rushed into hospital, put into a coma. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:32 | |
Just before I went to sleep, | 0:42:32 | 0:42:34 | |
they told my mum that this was possibly going to be the last time | 0:42:34 | 0:42:39 | |
that she could ever see me, so to perhaps say goodbye. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
She didn't say goodbye, she told me to fight it. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:47 | |
Luckily, I managed to fight it off. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
We had some blood pressure issues with my leg, | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
that's basically why it was dying. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:58 | |
They realised that the best course going forward would be to amputate. | 0:42:58 | 0:43:02 | |
As soon as they gave me a leg and I'd learned to walk, | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
I was pretty much running. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:07 | |
I just loved sports so I don't think I would have ever let | 0:43:07 | 0:43:10 | |
anything hold me back. | 0:43:10 | 0:43:12 | |
CROWD: Peacock! | 0:43:12 | 0:43:13 | |
"Peacock, Peacock!" rings around the arena here. | 0:43:13 | 0:43:15 | |
Peacock striding clear. | 0:43:17 | 0:43:19 | |
Peacock takes the gold for Britain. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
I think Jonnie is a massive inspiration, | 0:43:22 | 0:43:24 | |
to be able to do one Paralympics and become champion is one thing | 0:43:24 | 0:43:28 | |
but then to be able to come back and do it again is an amazing thing. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:32 | |
Little children, kind of adults, | 0:43:32 | 0:43:33 | |
everyone around the world will look up to him and think, | 0:43:33 | 0:43:36 | |
"Well, if he can do it with everything that he's been through, | 0:43:36 | 0:43:38 | |
"why can't I?" | 0:43:38 | 0:43:39 | |
Peacock's gold again! | 0:43:39 | 0:43:41 | |
He is now one of the great Paralympians. | 0:43:41 | 0:43:44 | |
Going back to that stadium where it all started for me | 0:43:44 | 0:43:47 | |
and to be able to do a home Paralympics | 0:43:47 | 0:43:49 | |
and a home World Championships, | 0:43:49 | 0:43:52 | |
those two medals were always going to mean a lot. | 0:43:52 | 0:43:54 | |
That track's special to me. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:55 | |
The last two years really have been leading up to that race. | 0:43:55 | 0:43:58 | |
Jonnie Peacock's riding away from the blocks. | 0:43:58 | 0:44:01 | |
Peacock will cross the line with a roar. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:03 | |
Peacock won here five years ago. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
He's returned to this stadium and produced again. | 0:44:05 | 0:44:08 | |
Being nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year, | 0:44:08 | 0:44:11 | |
it's such an honour, you know, the names that have been on this list | 0:44:11 | 0:44:14 | |
and to be within those names is really incredible. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
About a month ago, I saw the doctor that took my leg off | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
and I think it was good to see him see me | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
because at the time when he has to decide whether to amputate or not, | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
he's obviously doing it under the assumption | 0:44:26 | 0:44:29 | |
that I'm going to be better for it, I'm going to live a better life. | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
So I think seeing that I've kind of dealt with things OK | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
and that I was running, | 0:44:36 | 0:44:38 | |
he realised that he makes decisions that really do... | 0:44:38 | 0:44:41 | |
..do the best. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:44 | |
Richard, can you put Jonnie Peacock's achievements | 0:44:44 | 0:44:46 | |
-into context for us? -Yeah, well, the T44 100 metres, | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
that's the blue ribbon, really, of the Paralympics. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
That is, essentially, the 100 metres race. | 0:44:52 | 0:44:54 | |
He has not lost a final in T44 100 metres. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:57 | |
He's absolutely dominant in that event, | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
it's an incredible achievement, you know, added to that, | 0:44:59 | 0:45:02 | |
he got further through Strictly than virtually anyone else | 0:45:02 | 0:45:04 | |
who's ever been nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:45:04 | 0:45:07 | |
Iwan Thomas got knocked out in the first round. | 0:45:07 | 0:45:10 | |
Tony Jacklin got knocked out in the first round. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:12 | |
Joe Calzaghe made it to week five. | 0:45:12 | 0:45:14 | |
Denise Lewis made the final. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:15 | |
Denise Lewis and Colin Jackson both came second. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
They're the best Sports Personality podium finishers ever in Strictly. | 0:45:18 | 0:45:21 | |
-What an interesting connection. -How did you do? -Sorry? | 0:45:21 | 0:45:24 | |
-How did you do? -That's a pointless question. Erm... | 0:45:24 | 0:45:26 | |
TOM LAUGHS | 0:45:26 | 0:45:27 | |
We've kind of got used to para success, Games upon Games, | 0:45:27 | 0:45:31 | |
but Jonnie was at the vanguard of that and he really brought it | 0:45:31 | 0:45:34 | |
to the fore, didn't he, and gave it a public face, if you like? | 0:45:34 | 0:45:37 | |
-He was the poster boy. -Yeah, I mean, in 2012, | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
the British public were obsessed with the Paralympics. | 0:45:40 | 0:45:42 | |
They wanted more from the Olympics and it was the Paralympics | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
and we had the superheroes that were the para athletes | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
and Jonnie Peacock really championed that and now he's just been | 0:45:47 | 0:45:50 | |
so successful year after year after year. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:52 | |
So, I mean, he's a great guy. | 0:45:52 | 0:45:54 | |
Elise Christie had such a terrible Olympics in 2014 | 0:45:54 | 0:45:58 | |
and that happens to athletes | 0:45:58 | 0:45:59 | |
but what happened next to her was unforgivable, | 0:45:59 | 0:46:02 | |
the kind of abuse she received, death threats on social media. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:05 | |
How does an athlete deal with that kind of personal torment? | 0:46:05 | 0:46:08 | |
I mean, it's tough enough to go into an Olympic Games | 0:46:08 | 0:46:10 | |
after four years of training, training relentlessly day in, | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
day out for that one moment | 0:46:13 | 0:46:15 | |
and if you get disqualified or if you bomb out and then to have | 0:46:15 | 0:46:18 | |
on top of that people trolling you on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, | 0:46:18 | 0:46:22 | |
YouTube, whatever it is, you know, it's really tough to deal with. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:25 | |
-And what...? -Especially... Especially, I think, in a sport | 0:46:25 | 0:46:28 | |
that's so competitive and so exciting | 0:46:28 | 0:46:30 | |
as short track speed skating cos it's a fantastic sport to watch | 0:46:30 | 0:46:33 | |
and it's great to have a Briton right at the top of their game. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
I think my favourite ever Winter Olympic moment | 0:46:36 | 0:46:39 | |
was when Australia, do you remember this, | 0:46:39 | 0:46:41 | |
-won their first-ever... -Gold. -..gold medal? -Yes. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:43 | |
Steven Bradbury when he was at the back of the field and everyone... | 0:46:43 | 0:46:46 | |
-Everybody got wiped out. -Yeah. -Oh, my good... | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
I could watch that clip all day long. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
Is there any precedent to say how she will do? | 0:46:50 | 0:46:52 | |
Can you give us any steer on Elise's chances? | 0:46:52 | 0:46:54 | |
Hard to tell. I mean, there haven't been that many Scottish winners, | 0:46:54 | 0:46:57 | |
funnily enough. We know the most successful | 0:46:57 | 0:46:59 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year competitor ever | 0:46:59 | 0:47:01 | |
is Andy Murray, he's won three times. | 0:47:01 | 0:47:03 | |
The youngest ever winner, Ian Black, the swimmer, was 17, he's Scottish. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
-Only three other Scottish winners. -Liz McColgan. | 0:47:06 | 0:47:09 | |
Liz McColgan won it. There was a motor racer... | 0:47:09 | 0:47:11 | |
-Jackie Stewart. -Jackie Stewart. -Of course. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:15 | |
And a gentleman we've talked to and seen already before, a cyclist. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
-Chris Hoy. -Chris Hoy. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:19 | |
But, yeah, been a very successful time for the Scots recently | 0:47:19 | 0:47:22 | |
in Sports Personality Of The Year, | 0:47:22 | 0:47:23 | |
we'll see if she can continue that run. | 0:47:23 | 0:47:25 | |
Well, as you know, this year's SPOTY comes from Liverpool | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
and there are few cities which can boast its sporting heritage - | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
one of the greatest footballing rivalries in the world | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
and the jewel in the crown of the racing calendar. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:35 | |
This is the Mersey sound of football. | 0:47:35 | 0:47:38 | |
MUSIC: She Loves You by The Beatles | 0:47:38 | 0:47:42 | |
..wins the National! | 0:47:46 | 0:47:48 | |
It's a goal. | 0:47:48 | 0:47:50 | |
Keegan. 1-0. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
They're running it home now. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:55 | |
Kenny Dalglish! | 0:47:56 | 0:47:57 | |
What a fantastic goal. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:02 | |
Over the line... | 0:48:02 | 0:48:03 | |
Right off. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:06 | |
Fowler's coming in... | 0:48:06 | 0:48:08 | |
Oh! | 0:48:08 | 0:48:09 | |
Michael Owen for Liverpool... | 0:48:10 | 0:48:12 | |
Oh, he's done it! | 0:48:12 | 0:48:14 | |
To Rooney! | 0:48:14 | 0:48:15 | |
Rooney, Fowler, Owen, | 0:48:18 | 0:48:20 | |
all strikers who featured in that famous Liverpool Derby | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
and then for England. | 0:48:23 | 0:48:24 | |
But one striker looking to eclipse them all is our next contender, | 0:48:24 | 0:48:27 | |
a goal-scoring machine. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:29 | |
This year Harry Kane has earned his spurs. | 0:48:29 | 0:48:32 | |
My passion for goals has just, yeah, it's been there since I was a kid, | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
really, playing over the park with my dad and brother. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:40 | |
The feeling of scoring a goal, it never gets old... | 0:48:40 | 0:48:43 | |
Obviously except for the birth of my baby daughter, | 0:48:43 | 0:48:45 | |
there's not much else that comes close to it, to be honest. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:48 | |
He's just shown great determination, willpower, | 0:48:48 | 0:48:52 | |
perseverance. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:53 | |
He's not far away from being the perfect striker. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
It's what I think about pretty much every day of my life. | 0:48:56 | 0:48:58 | |
What finishes, right foot, left foot, cutting inside, | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
crossing, free kicks cos in the game, you never know | 0:49:01 | 0:49:04 | |
what chance you're going to get. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:05 | |
He's probably the most all-round striker that is playing | 0:49:05 | 0:49:09 | |
at the moment and for that very reason, a defender just can never, | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
ever switch off because he can score any type of goal. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:15 | |
Here's Kane. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:17 | |
Kane, 1-0! | 0:49:17 | 0:49:18 | |
Oh, that's fantastic! | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
Across to Kane... | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
100 Tottenham goals! | 0:49:22 | 0:49:25 | |
Kane is there and England score! | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
As a kid growing up, you always dream of playing for England | 0:49:28 | 0:49:31 | |
and, of course, captaining one day, | 0:49:31 | 0:49:32 | |
but you never kind of think it's going to come true, | 0:49:32 | 0:49:34 | |
so to have that opportunity and to score that last-minute winner | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
to send us to the World Cup, it was just incredible. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
There is no doubt about it that Harry Kane | 0:49:39 | 0:49:41 | |
is England's brightest hope. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:43 | |
To have that feeling, that you're leading your country out | 0:49:43 | 0:49:47 | |
in front of everyone, in front of your team-mates, | 0:49:47 | 0:49:49 | |
in front of 80-90,000, it's the biggest thing that can happen. | 0:49:49 | 0:49:52 | |
If Harry Kane keeps going the way he is, wins a big trophy, | 0:49:52 | 0:49:55 | |
with England or with Tottenham, | 0:49:55 | 0:49:57 | |
then that really catapults you into the limelight | 0:49:57 | 0:49:59 | |
and then maybe on the list of the Ballon d'Or recipients. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:03 | |
Ronaldo and Messi have cleaned up, haven't they, for many years now? | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
Someone's got to break the mould eventually. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
To be put in the same breath as Ronaldo and Messi | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
is something I'm proud of. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:11 | |
They obviously set the bar for every other footballer, really, | 0:50:11 | 0:50:15 | |
the Ballon d'Ors they've won, the goals they score. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
Yeah, it's great to be up there with them numbers | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
but it's about turning that into winning trophies, | 0:50:19 | 0:50:22 | |
winning Champions Leagues, winning Premier Leagues | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
and that's my ultimate goal. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:27 | |
The winner of the Sports Personality award for 1998 is... | 0:50:27 | 0:50:32 | |
..Michael Owen. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:34 | |
It's a mixed feeling, really, you're so elated and so happy | 0:50:34 | 0:50:38 | |
but as a young lad I was thinking, "Oh, right, | 0:50:38 | 0:50:40 | |
"I've got to do a speech now," and I didn't know what to say | 0:50:40 | 0:50:43 | |
and all the rest of it so I was concentrating on not making a fool | 0:50:43 | 0:50:46 | |
of myself in front of millions and millions of viewers. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:48 | |
So it was only after the show, really, that it sunk in | 0:50:48 | 0:50:51 | |
to think that I've won that really famous trophy. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:53 | |
To have been nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
is a massive achievement, | 0:50:55 | 0:50:57 | |
probably wasn't expecting it, if I'm totally honest. | 0:50:57 | 0:51:00 | |
But it's been a fantastic year for me personally | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
and something I'm very proud of. | 0:51:02 | 0:51:05 | |
GABBY: Harry Kane has become Mr Consistent. | 0:51:05 | 0:51:07 | |
He's consistently getting better and better, | 0:51:07 | 0:51:10 | |
just like our next contender who breaks world records for fun. | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
In 2017, Adam Peaty became double world champion again. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:17 | |
Telling his story is a double Olympic champion | 0:51:17 | 0:51:20 | |
who came third at SPOTY in 2008 - Miss Rebecca Adlington. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:25 | |
2008 was just an incredible year for myself, | 0:51:25 | 0:51:29 | |
still probably one of the best years of my whole entire life | 0:51:29 | 0:51:31 | |
and to come away with a gold, something I never, ever, | 0:51:31 | 0:51:34 | |
ever expected, the cherry on top was getting that world record. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:38 | |
Rebecca Adlington, you are absolutely brilliant. | 0:51:38 | 0:51:42 | |
There's something special about Sports Personality, | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
something different. | 0:51:44 | 0:51:45 | |
When my name got announced as third, I was so honoured, | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
I felt like I was waving the flag for swimming. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
Now we have a Adam Peaty who is just swimming through and through. | 0:51:51 | 0:51:56 | |
This is quite amazing, absolutely brilliant breaststroke swimming. | 0:51:56 | 0:52:00 | |
The rest of the world, reset their dreams | 0:52:00 | 0:52:02 | |
cos their dreams are no longer quick enough. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:04 | |
He's an absolute beast, isn't he? | 0:52:04 | 0:52:07 | |
The year in the pool has been incredible for me. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
You know, obviously World Championships, | 0:52:09 | 0:52:11 | |
defending all my titles. I knew I wanted to represent my country | 0:52:11 | 0:52:13 | |
and I knew I wanted to do well, you know, | 0:52:13 | 0:52:15 | |
I'm not a person who's going to turn up and, you know, | 0:52:15 | 0:52:17 | |
just give a half a job. | 0:52:17 | 0:52:18 | |
You can go to Olympics, you can win it | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
but it's how you back up that win then. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:22 | |
25.95, I never thought I would live to see the day. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:27 | |
I turned around, I was like, "25.9." I was like, "Oh, my God, | 0:52:27 | 0:52:30 | |
"this is, this is unreal." And normally, you know, 50 metres, | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
yeah, you win by this much, you win by that much, but never this much. | 0:52:33 | 0:52:36 | |
You could tell he was shocked. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:38 | |
I loved his reaction after that race. | 0:52:38 | 0:52:40 | |
He just looked like a little kid again that's in a sweet shop. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
Does he know any boundaries whatsoever? | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
I don't think he does. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:47 | |
Legacy is everything. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:48 | |
I mean, there's no point in doing sport and just coming and going. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:51 | |
I think, you know, you've got to go there, | 0:52:51 | 0:52:53 | |
put your foot down and say, you know, "This is my territory." | 0:52:53 | 0:52:55 | |
A good, clean start in this final of the men's 100 metres breaststroke. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:58 | |
Adam Peaty's destroyed the best in the world. | 0:52:58 | 0:53:01 | |
Is there nothing that this guy can't do? | 0:53:01 | 0:53:02 | |
You don't want to kind of fade into history, you want to say, | 0:53:02 | 0:53:05 | |
"Yes, he was one of the best," | 0:53:05 | 0:53:07 | |
and that's kind of what motivates me now. | 0:53:07 | 0:53:09 | |
He's created new moulds now that everyone else wants to copy. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:12 | |
You've got kind of the eight-year-olds | 0:53:12 | 0:53:14 | |
in the swimming clubs wanting to copy Adam Peaty's stroke | 0:53:14 | 0:53:17 | |
and that is just such a legacy that he's going to leave behind. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
Great Britain have won silver in the 4x100 medley relay, | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
largely thanks, of course, to Adam Peaty. | 0:53:23 | 0:53:26 | |
He's amongst the Michael Phelps, | 0:53:26 | 0:53:28 | |
you can put him in the same category as people like that. | 0:53:28 | 0:53:31 | |
Yes, he might not have the same medal count as somebody else | 0:53:31 | 0:53:34 | |
but he definitely has that presence and that recognition | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
because of how much he dominates and how much he's kept that level. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:41 | |
To be nominated for SPOTY for the fourth year is | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
amazing for me, you know, | 0:53:43 | 0:53:44 | |
I never thought I'd make it past the second one but, you know, | 0:53:44 | 0:53:47 | |
it's kind of not just for me, | 0:53:47 | 0:53:50 | |
it's recognising the achievements of my team. | 0:53:50 | 0:53:52 | |
I don't see why I can't keep winning for the next 10 years | 0:53:52 | 0:53:54 | |
or until I retire, you know, I'd love to go to LA 2028. | 0:53:54 | 0:53:57 | |
You just don't know but I'm just going to take each Olympic year | 0:53:57 | 0:53:59 | |
as it comes and, yeah, just enjoy the journey. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:03 | |
GABBY: Richard, the stats on this man are just ridiculous. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:06 | |
I mean, they really are. | 0:54:06 | 0:54:07 | |
It's his fourth straight year on the Sports Personality shortlist. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
If you ever see him in these races, people are racing for seconds, | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
he doesn't just win by a bit, he really wins by a huge amount, | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
which especially in the 50 metres is extraordinary, | 0:54:16 | 0:54:19 | |
it's unprecedented. | 0:54:19 | 0:54:20 | |
One thing that might work against him, | 0:54:20 | 0:54:22 | |
he's the youngest contender on our shortlist, 22 years old. | 0:54:22 | 0:54:26 | |
No-one born after 1990 has ever won Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:54:26 | 0:54:30 | |
-That has to change soon. -It will change at some point. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:32 | |
He's also, as Rebecca Adlington said there, | 0:54:32 | 0:54:34 | |
being compared to Phelps in terms of his dominance, | 0:54:34 | 0:54:37 | |
which you've just alluded to why, not yet the golds | 0:54:37 | 0:54:40 | |
but for what he does, you know, | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
can we put him up in that kind of greatness? | 0:54:42 | 0:54:44 | |
He competes in fewer events than Phelps | 0:54:44 | 0:54:46 | |
so he'll probably never overhaul that kind of... | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
the medal haul of Michael Phelps. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:49 | |
But certainly in the events that he does, he's absolutely unbeatable. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:52 | |
What's he like to have around the squad? | 0:54:52 | 0:54:54 | |
What's his presence like, Tom? | 0:54:54 | 0:54:56 | |
I mean, he's hard-working, | 0:54:56 | 0:54:58 | |
he's a big inspiration and there's this aura around him | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
that just make... | 0:55:01 | 0:55:02 | |
You know, when you walk into a room and you see him there, | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
it's just something that...you just feel this energy of winning. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
And so much so that at the British Championships, | 0:55:08 | 0:55:11 | |
he met this young kid afterwards and wanted him to sign | 0:55:11 | 0:55:13 | |
something for him, didn't have anything, | 0:55:13 | 0:55:15 | |
gave him his gold medal that qualified him | 0:55:15 | 0:55:17 | |
for the World Championships. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
That fantastic social media VT he put up | 0:55:19 | 0:55:21 | |
-doing the push-ups... -Yes. -..and, you know, with the claps. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:24 | |
-Can you do that? Do you do that? -We do lots... | 0:55:24 | 0:55:26 | |
We have to jump off our hands for handstands | 0:55:26 | 0:55:28 | |
so we do lots of that kind of training | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
to make sure that we can generate power. But... | 0:55:30 | 0:55:32 | |
-Same. Same, Gabby. You? -Absolutely. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:34 | |
-Yeah, a lot of that. -A lot of watching, Richard. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:55:34 | 0:55:36 | |
He's definitely a strong lad, though. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:38 | |
Richard, Harry Kane has had an amazing year. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:40 | |
This is a guy who, four seasons ago, | 0:55:40 | 0:55:42 | |
was on the bench in the championship, | 0:55:42 | 0:55:44 | |
which goes to show what a bit of application can do, | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
he's clearly very talented as well. No, he's had a phenomenal year, | 0:55:46 | 0:55:49 | |
seems to go about things the right way as well. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:51 | |
Football stars often don't do brilliantly | 0:55:51 | 0:55:53 | |
on Sports Personality, some very, very big names have not won it. | 0:55:53 | 0:55:57 | |
Kevin Keegan was beaten by Seb Coe, | 0:55:57 | 0:55:59 | |
Gordon Banks was beaten by Dame Mary Peters. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:02 | |
Do you remember a player called Gary Lineker? | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
-Remember him? -Oh... I'll look him up later. | 0:56:05 | 0:56:08 | |
Yeah, I don't know what happened to him. | 0:56:08 | 0:56:09 | |
Anyway, he got beaten by Liz McColgan and best of all, | 0:56:09 | 0:56:12 | |
George Best, who never won Sports Personality Of The Year | 0:56:12 | 0:56:14 | |
was beaten by Princess Anne. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:15 | |
Harry Kane has got a lovely way about him on social media, | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
hasn't he? There's always something interesting. | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
-His dogs, for example. -Yeah, exactly. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:22 | |
He's a massive NFL fan | 0:56:22 | 0:56:23 | |
and he's called his dogs Brady and Wilson after Tom Brady | 0:56:23 | 0:56:26 | |
and Russell Wilson which, again, it's so cute, | 0:56:26 | 0:56:28 | |
the picture of the dogs as well. Bless him. | 0:56:28 | 0:56:30 | |
Tom, interestingly, every time there's a big football match, | 0:56:30 | 0:56:33 | |
your Twitter feed lights up. | 0:56:33 | 0:56:34 | |
I know, I'm not the biggest fan of football so I never know | 0:56:34 | 0:56:36 | |
when anything's on, but as soon as there's a dive on the pitch | 0:56:36 | 0:56:39 | |
I'm apparently the new coach of that team. | 0:56:39 | 0:56:41 | |
Everyone thinks they're the first person to do the joke. | 0:56:41 | 0:56:43 | |
Listen, I'm a Fulham fan and I present a show called Pointless, | 0:56:43 | 0:56:46 | |
so, listen, I have heard that joke before. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:48 | |
He's one of those people that I think the neutrals | 0:56:48 | 0:56:50 | |
don't mind embracing, which could stand him in good stead. | 0:56:50 | 0:56:53 | |
Yeah, listen, he's got that old-fashioned thing, | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
-which we need in British football. There's... -He's called Harry? | 0:56:55 | 0:56:58 | |
Well, for many years we didn't have, no-one called Harry | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
had played for England for many, many years. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:02 | |
Now we've got Harry Kane, we've got Harry Maguire, | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
we've got Harry Winks, there's a whole load of Harrys coming out. | 0:57:04 | 0:57:07 | |
So you've seen all 12 of the contenders for 2017 | 0:57:07 | 0:57:10 | |
but who will be crowned Sports Personality Of The Year | 0:57:10 | 0:57:13 | |
on Sunday evening? Well, as ever, it's your call. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:16 | |
You can sign in or register to vote now on the Sports Personality | 0:57:17 | 0:57:21 | |
section of the BBC Sport website | 0:57:21 | 0:57:23 | |
so you're ready to cast your all-important vote | 0:57:23 | 0:57:25 | |
when it opens during the live programme on December 17th. | 0:57:25 | 0:57:29 | |
Voting online is free and you'll also be able to pick up the phone | 0:57:29 | 0:57:32 | |
to vote from your landline or mobile. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:34 | |
Full terms and conditions are on the website. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:36 | |
Please register now and get ready to help decide the winner | 0:57:36 | 0:57:39 | |
of the 2017 Sports Personality Of The Year. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:42 | |
And Sports Personality Of The Year | 0:57:42 | 0:57:44 | |
is coming to you live from the Liverpool Echo Arena on Sunday. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:48 | |
You wouldn't want to miss it. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:50 | |
Last year, Birmingham was brummy marvellous. See you on Sunday. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:54 | |
Good evening and welcome | 0:57:55 | 0:57:57 | |
to the BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year 2016. | 0:57:57 | 0:58:00 | |
This year's Helen Rollason Award goes to the incredible Ben Smith. | 0:58:00 | 0:58:04 | |
Running gave me back my confidence. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:06 | |
The team of the year is Leicester City. | 0:58:09 | 0:58:12 | |
I feel very privileged to be standing here tonight. | 0:58:13 | 0:58:16 | |
We are in the presence of greatness tonight, Michael Phelps. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:20 | |
One of the greatest sporting icons the sport has ever had. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:23 | |
Thank you, thank you to everybody. | 0:58:23 | 0:58:25 | |
And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray. | 0:58:25 | 0:58:30 |