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Welcome to Liverpool, heart of the Industrial Revolution,

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birthplace of The Beatles, a European City of Culture and Sport -

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Liverpool, Everton and Aintree.

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And now home to Sports Personality Of The Year.

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This city has got a lot to offer

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and, if you're a sports fan, so did 2017.

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It's going to be gold!

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Great Britain and Northern Ireland silver medal!

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Celtic are the champions once again!

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CHEERING

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-Wow.

-I just witnessed greatness.

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A seventh victory for David Weir!

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Anthony Joshua has got Wladimir Klitschko!

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That's got to be gold for Daley!

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Peacock's going to take the gold!

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Blue is the colour of the Premier League winners!

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He's a one-man world superpower!

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Aaron Ramsey scores for the Gunners!

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Chris Froome has won the Tour de France!

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What a year he's had!

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This kid is unbelievable!

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Kane!

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Shrubsole, England's hero!

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Double world champion, Bianca Walkden!

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England, World Cup winners!

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Lewis Hamilton is a four-time Formula 1 world champion!

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2017 was another massive year for sport

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and it's produced 12 worthy contenders

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from 12 different sports all vying to be crowned

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BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2017.

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To guide us through the shortlist,

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I'm delighted to be joined by font of all knowledge Richard Osmond,

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from Pointless, amongst other things.

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And two-time world diving champion Tom Daley.

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-Welcome, guys.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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So much to choose from,

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but what has stood out for you sporting-wise in 2017, Richard?

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Well, aside from this amazing shortlist,

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I'm a huge fan of an underdog story

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so I thought that the FA Cup this year was absolutely sensational.

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If I had to pick out one moment,

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probably you'd have to say Lincoln winning late on against Burnley,

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becoming the first club in over 100 years, first non-league club,

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to get to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.

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And, for you, to win a World Championship eight years

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after your first, Tom, and still look like you need ID

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to get into even the library is an incredible thing.

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Yeah, I mean, I was just a baby back in 2009 and,

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eight years later, I'm still going strong

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-but now the grandad of the team instead of the baby.

-Good stuff.

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Well, have you ever wondered how the shortlist

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for Sports Personality Of The Year is decided?

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It's not that straightforward.

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Here's Colin Murray to tell you more.

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Hello, I'm Colin Murray.

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Behind me are gathered 12 very angry men and women around a table

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to decide the 2017 shortlist for the Sports Personality Of The Year.

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There are top journalists in that room,

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there are great sports people in that room, and then there's me.

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Let's do it.

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Hello and welcome to our session this morning.

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It's a really great group to be part of

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cos it's a very, very lively debate,

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in the best possible sense, and very different perspectives.

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Growing up as a kid, dreaming of becoming a sports person,

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one of the first things that you see that you go

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"I want to be there one day"

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is the Sports Personality Of The Year.

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You tend to focus on what has that individual done,

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what's their back story? What's their story in terms of

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how they've achieved what they've achieved?

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And they need not necessarily have won something incredible.

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-It just might be their journey.

-You don't necessarily do it

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for these awards. You do it because you want to be very good

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at your sport. But then to think at the end of the year

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you'll also get recognised by the nation,

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it just adds almost a bit of icing on top of the cake.

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We had some really, really great discussions.

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We all came to a consensus, in the end,

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and it's a list that we're really proud of

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and feel is very, very strong.

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That was a long, long debate.

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My idea to just have all of the Northern Ireland squad

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nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year didn't get through,

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but what a cracking dozen it is, and it's now up to you to decide.

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Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room.

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Well, over the next hour, we're going to hear from

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all of this year's contenders and hear from some top sports stars

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who've won this iconic trophy in the past.

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And, just like five years ago,

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all eyes were on the Olympic Stadium in London.

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This time for the World Athletics Championships.

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And, just like 2012, Mo Farah was the one to beat.

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And who better to talk you through his incredible story than

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a man who won Sports Personality Of The Year in 1974,

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and commentated on all of Mo's achievements?

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And with an insatiable appetite for gold.

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He's a one-man world superpower!

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It's gold for Farah!

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It's a big year, 2017,

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to have the World Championship right on our doorstep.

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It was incredible and for me the biggest thing really was

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winning the gold and the silver.

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That 10K race in London was one of the hardest races of my life.

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He knows what he has to do from this point in, but they're making it

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hard, they're making it tough and Mo Farah comes to the front.

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I ran four seconds outside my personal best and that was tough.

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He was even tripped on the last lap and, you know,

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the strength of the man,

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the inner strength he's got, the physical strength,

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kept him on his feet, kept his balance,

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and there was only one thing he was going to do that night in London -

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it was to win the gold medal.

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He's going to take another world title.

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He's a one-man world superpower. It's gold for Farah!

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5,000 metres - cameras trained on one man,

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a moment of history they hope.

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Tactically, I think

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I did everything that I could do in order for me to win that race.

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Mo's under a little bit of pressure.

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He's got to do what he's done before.

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But there was just a better man on the day

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and there's nothing you can do. Better opposition won on that day.

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Mo Farah fights for the silver.

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That's the end of a fantastic track career.

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I enjoyed my track career and I'm sure next year

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when I do marathon stuff,

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whenever the major championship is on and you're watching it, going,

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"I was in that position once," then that's when you start to reflect.

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There's only the great Carl Lewis

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and Usain Bolt that have got any more Olympic gold medals

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in individual events,

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and then when you look at his World Championship performances,

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he's won six gold medals.

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The only athlete in the history of the World Athletics Championships

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who's got more than six gold medals is the great Usain Bolt.

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So, when you put him in the record books, he's, like, right up there.

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Sports Personality Of The Year was a fantastic occasion.

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It was completely different to what it is now.

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It was low-key, comparatively.

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However, the accolade of being voted by the BBC viewers

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was then a huge honour, remains a huge honour.

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It was a pleasure to win it.

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It's a pretty amazing feeling

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to be called one of the greatest athletes in Britain.

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You know, I just love what I do

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and I just want to continue running and do what I do best.

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Having a dream and following that dream hasn't been easy

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but it's been worth it.

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Another vintage year for Britain's greatest ever track

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and field athlete, Sir Mo Farah,

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and if you think Mo does a lot of laps of the track,

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this guy does even more.

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2017 saw Lewis Hamilton become Britain's most successful

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Formula 1 driver of all time,

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eclipsing a certain Scotsman's 44-year-old record.

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I think Lewis Hamilton is a very good driver indeed.

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I love racing at the moment. I think my only goal

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is really just to continue to try and raise the bar.

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He took my record away by winning four,

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but I had held the record for 44 years,

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so it was due to be changed.

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You can hear the cheers and applause from the Australian crowd,

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80,000 of them, Vettel winning the opening Grand Prix of the season.

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I'm not here to finish second place or finish sixth

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or anywhere below first.

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Hamilton is victorious in Barcelona.

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-There, he brake tested me! What the

-BLEEP

-is going on?

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CRASH!

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Lewis Hamilton wins the British Grand Prix.

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Mercedes have swapped on the line and it's Bottas third

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and Lewis Hamilton fourth.

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Have I just made a decision that I'm going to

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regret for the rest of my life?

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I started racing when I was eight,

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Dad had four jobs just to keep us carting.

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I think Lewis has a huge gift of natural talent

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and what you've got to do is match that natural talent with what's up

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here, the little grey cells.

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APPLAUSE

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The second half of this season, I think,

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Lewis has driven better than he's ever driven before.

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He's just become the all-time pole position record holder

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in Formula 1.

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69 pole positions for Lewis Hamilton.

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When it rains, that's beautiful for me.

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It's a really good start from Raikkonen

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Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari.

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The two Ferraris collide and that has paved

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the way for Lewis Hamilton to win the Singapore Grand Prix of 2017.

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People were talking about it a lot. I remember trying to ignore that.

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I've just got to get in and do the job that I'm ready to do.

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-He hit me deliberately.

-Not sure, Lewis.

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Only once this season has he finished outside of the top five,

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but it doesn't matter, because Lewis Hamilton

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is a four-time Formula 1 world champion.

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Just so grateful for all your hard work this year. God bless you.

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I think the results speak for themselves and ultimately

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when people then remind me that I'm the most successful British

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driver to have ever lived, then that's, er...

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how can you describe it?

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To be nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year,

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it's something very special.

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It's a wonderful night and it's just a nice thing to win.

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Every single championship that I've competed in, it's not been easy

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to face the down days that you have but still I rise.

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From a slow start, excuse the pun,

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it's been a fantastic year for Lewis Hamilton.

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He's broken so many records,

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perhaps - and hearing Sir Jackie there talk about it -

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the most notable is that 44-year record, four Formula 1 titles now.

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It really puts him up amongst the greats.

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Yeah, that's the real deal, only Fangio

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and Schumacher have won more, because Schumacher has won seven.

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Fangio - he could equal if he wins one more.

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I think even more impressive is he's got the most

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pole positions of anyone, all time, of Formula 1.

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Beat Schumacher's record which was very impressive.

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He's also the only person on this list, on the shortlist,

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whose actually won Sports Personality Of The Year

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before and only four people have ever won it

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more than once. Can you name who those are?

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I'm going to have little questions for you throughout this evening.

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Well, I know that Formula 1 is -

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-unless you want answer this first, Tom - is very successful.

-It is.

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-Damon Hill.

-Damon Hill won it twice.

-Nigel Mansell.

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-Nigel Mansell won it twice.

-I think I was only alive for Murray.

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-He won it three times.

-Three times.

-OK, OK, yeah.

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There's only one other person who's won it twice. Shall I let you know?

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-Henry Cooper.

-Sir Henry Cooper. Absolutely right.

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So he'd only be the fifth person on that list

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-if he were to win this.

-Interesting that Formula 1 does so well,

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-motor racing does so well, isn't it?

-It is.

-Their fans are galvanised.

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I think it's exactly that. They've got fans who are absolutely adore

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Formula 1, so when they've got someone who is a world champion

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they have a very, very good chance of winning the title.

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Now, strangely, there are parallels, I feel, with your career.

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-Not only is it high speed, dangerous...

-Yes.

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..risky and obviously you do it with a lot less protection around you...

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-That's true.

-..you both started your careers

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incredibly young, came to prominence at a young age,

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what is it like when there's that level of expectation on you?

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I mean, there's always lots of pressure,

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especially if you're successful at a young age, but you don't have

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to rise to that expectation or you fall and I think it really just

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comes down to, you just have to put everything into every single

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moment, so you go into a competition with no regrets.

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We are going to miss Mo Farah - what a legend he's been.

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Three Olympic Games, you've been in the same team as him, Tom.

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-What's he like to be around?

-I mean, he's just such a great character.

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He's so lovely, especially his family.

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I got to actually meet his family in 2012 and it's just

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so sweet to see how supportive they are of him

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and, you know, he's superhuman, you know, he's won so many medals

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and he's just definitely going to go down in the history books.

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His dedication, his sacrifice, his life has been about running

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and so no wonder he has eclipsed so many of the greats,

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-but who even comes close to him?

-I don't think anyone comes close

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in terms of the numbers, but the interesting thing,

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talking about what we're talking about this evening,

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is he's never won Sports Personality Of The Year.

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Third is the best he's ever done.

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There's a few people who've come second twice.

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Sally Gunnell and Denise Lewis both came second twice,

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but two other people who came second twice but never won - Frank Bruno,

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Bobby Charlton as well. Ronnie O'Sullivan never won,

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but Mo Farah, by a mile,

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surely the best British sportsperson

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never to have yet to win this award.

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Let's see if those people who feel he should put their money

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where their mouth is in 2017.

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Now, when you think of British tennis, these days,

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all thoughts turn to Andy Murray, however,

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2017 represented a breakthrough year for Johanna Konta.

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It's 40 years since Virginia Wade won both Wimbledon

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and Sports Personality Of The Year.

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Four decades later,

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Jo gripped the nation as she came oh so close.

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Wimbledon is special - to play here,

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to win here, even just to be here, it's a privilege.

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There's a thrill walking through the gates at Wimbledon.

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You just can't wait to get on court.

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I find it the most relaxing and actually the most tranquil

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out of all the slams. It really feels all about the game.

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Johanna Konta - high home hopes for her.

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She moves through to the second round with little fuss.

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She's very level-headed, she handles everything very, very well.

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Yeah, got it now.

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What a battle! Konta through

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to the third round for the very first time.

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It's such an ultimate goal, Wimbledon,

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especially if you are British.

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-Aggh!

-Come on!

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Jo Konta, three down, four to go.

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The Briton never experienced expectation

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like she's experiencing in this part of the world at the moment.

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Jo Konta - Wimbledon quarterfinalist.

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You feel like you're in this big stadium of noise

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at that moment when you walk out.

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I definitely felt the investment from the nation at the time

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and definitely felt their desire and their want for me to do well.

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It's over. British tennis history is made.

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We've not had a day like this for 39 years,

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a British woman in the semifinals of Wimbledon.

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I was lucky enough to be sitting in the front seat

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of the royal box for that match.

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As a young girl, you dream about these matches.

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So just about set - Venus Williams against Johanna Konta.

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They want it to go on, this dream for Johanna Konta

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and the pressure grows.

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There it is. Venus Williams!

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For Konta, it ends here and what a run she has had.

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It was definitely a highlight of my career so far.

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It didn't take me by surprise, the level that she played,

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but I definitely wished that didn't play as well she did on the day.

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It was definitely something that I look back on

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with incredible amount of fondness.

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The Sports Personality of 1977 is Virginia Wade.

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The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year is more than

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icing on the cake, it's a really meaningful award.

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Honestly, just to be nominated is a privilege.

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It's pretty impressive, all those athletes, what they've achieved

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this year and I just feel very lucky to be counted alongside them.

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Konta made her mark at Wimbledon this summer, but north of the Thames

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at Lord's, one woman delivered the unthinkable.

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She delivered a performance which no English cricketer

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had ever managed before.

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Bowler Anya Shrubsole steered the women's England cricket team

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to victory in the World Cup final.

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We're almost ready to get under way, this ICC women's World Cup final.

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Wide of the crease she comes in.

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It's driven over the head of mid-off. Smiles on the Indian bench.

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The thing about England and World Cups across all

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the different sports, we have a habit of not delivering

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and India needed something like 36

0:15:570:15:58

off 40-odd deliveries, they were strolling.

0:15:580:16:00

She'd have been walking back to her mark thinking, "Oh, no."

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Everyone will admit, even us on the field, they were the favourites

0:16:030:16:06

for most of the way through that innings.

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Shrubsole comes in, slow delivery, big appeal for LBW

0:16:070:16:10

and it's given. Shrubsole makes the breakthrough.

0:16:100:16:13

That was probably the wicket that gave us a look-in.

0:16:130:16:15

You always think if you get one wicket,

0:16:150:16:17

then you could potentially get two or three

0:16:170:16:19

and then suddenly the pressure is right back on the Indians.

0:16:190:16:21

Goswami struggling there.

0:16:210:16:23

And Shrubsole picks up her fourth wicket. What a spell this is.

0:16:230:16:26

For me at that point, it was about making things as simple

0:16:260:16:29

as I possibly could, so I decided to bowl two balls basically

0:16:290:16:33

and make sure that I absolutely nailed those.

0:16:330:16:36

Anya had that one chance to deliver something special

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and she certainly did that.

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Shrubsole in now and bowls her - six wickets for Anya Shrubsole!

0:16:410:16:45

England's hero, England win the World Cup

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in front of a packed house at Lord's.

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For all the hard work that we've put in as a team to come to fruition

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and be world champions

0:16:530:16:55

is a feeling that is pretty impossible to describe.

0:16:550:16:58

For me, it was like a football team being two goals down

0:16:580:17:02

with ten minutes to go. England should have lost that game,

0:17:020:17:04

she got the wickets and England end up winning the game.

0:17:040:17:07

You know, if that had been an England footballer, Dele Alli

0:17:070:17:10

would have been front page, he'd have had his own open-top bus ride.

0:17:100:17:12

Anya delivered exactly that.

0:17:120:17:15

All I try and do is just contribute towards England winning games,

0:17:150:17:18

so to walk away and know that you've done that,

0:17:180:17:20

is a pretty special feeling.

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I've got a seven-year-old daughter

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who couldn't keep her eyes off the final.

0:17:230:17:25

She'd never ever mentioned to me about playing cricket

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and since then, she's been getting her older brother

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to throw balls to her in the garden.

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She joined the local cricket club

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and I think in years gone by, it'll probably...

0:17:340:17:37

The 2005 moment, you know, the amount of kids now that come

0:17:370:17:41

and say, "I only to play cricket

0:17:410:17:43

"or I watch cricket because of 2005."

0:17:430:17:45

I think that probably means more now than actually the urn.

0:17:450:17:48

I hope they realise that they've motivated and given

0:17:480:17:53

an opportunity to many kids to go and pick up a bat and ball.

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Ladies and gentlemen, England's Ashes heroes.

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I think it really shows just where women's cricket is

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and how far it's come that you've got a female cricketer

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who's on the shortlist for Sports Personality,

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so it's a huge honour for me,

0:18:090:18:11

but also a representation of all the work that's been done by the team.

0:18:110:18:16

What a performance, what a moment.

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One of my favourite of the summer, I think,

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and the first time a female cricketer has ever been on this list

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and Michael Vaughan alluded to it there,

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it feels like a pivotal moment.

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I mean, yeah, imagine being a young girl and seeing that,

0:18:280:18:32

you know, a team performing in front of a sell-out crowd,

0:18:320:18:36

like, you can achieve anything and it's really exciting see

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women's cricket come as far as it has and it's really exciting to

0:18:400:18:43

think, that she was, back in 2001,

0:18:430:18:46

the little girl that went to Lord's and now she's playing and she's...

0:18:460:18:49

That was a lovely tweet, wasn't it?

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From her dad and her looking over the boundary

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and saying she wanted to play in a World Cup there.

0:18:530:18:55

I mean, incredible, I mean, quite apart from gender,

0:18:550:18:58

this is what Sports Personality is all about

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and she was put under the greatest pressure of her career

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and gave the greatest performance of her career

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and that's what being a sportsperson is.

0:19:050:19:07

Tough for a cricketer maybe to win Sports Personality.

0:19:070:19:09

Three cricketers have been in the top three in the last 40 years,

0:19:090:19:13

-two of them won. Botham.

-Botham, yeah.

-Freddie Flintoff.

-Yeah.

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And a third place for Graham Gooch,

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but I think what an incredible performance from Anya Shrubsole.

0:19:190:19:22

She said...she tweeted, "I'm very humbled to be on this list,"

0:19:220:19:25

and, you know, goodness me, she's earned her place on that list.

0:19:250:19:29

Well, if Anya Shrubsole is a brilliant individual

0:19:290:19:32

in a great team, Johanna Konta is very much out there on her own

0:19:320:19:36

on Centre Court in the summer,

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with the eyes and expectations of a nation.

0:19:370:19:40

We've been so used to putting all our hopes

0:19:400:19:41

on Andy Murray's shoulders, but she had a wonderful Wimbledon

0:19:410:19:44

and made history. It's been a long, long time, Richard. How long?

0:19:440:19:48

Well, '77 was the last time we had a woman in the semifinals at

0:19:480:19:50

Wimbledon which was Virginia Wade, of course, who went on to win it.

0:19:500:19:53

I suspect Johanna Konta will win it at some point.

0:19:530:19:55

It would be lovely if she did and the interesting thing,

0:19:550:19:58

I think, in TV terms is the ratings which were enormous.

0:19:580:20:00

Like, nearly 7.5 million people

0:20:000:20:02

watching that Johanna Konta quarterfinal against Halep

0:20:020:20:04

and that was the biggest ratings of any match at Wimbledon.

0:20:040:20:07

Bigger than the men's final,

0:20:070:20:08

bigger than the Murray games, bigger than Nadal.

0:20:080:20:10

Bigger than EastEnders so, you know, it's the real deal.

0:20:100:20:13

People really took to her. I think we're going to see a lot more

0:20:130:20:15

of her personality as well over the next few years.

0:20:150:20:17

I think the British public

0:20:170:20:18

are really going to fall in love with Johanna Konta.

0:20:180:20:21

-And maybe on the Bake Off as well with her love for baking.

-Yeah.

0:20:210:20:23

Seems to be a theme amongst quite a lot of athletes these days...

0:20:230:20:26

-We like sweet treats.

-Oh, you're a baking fan?

0:20:260:20:28

I'm a big baking fan and I saw on Instagram actually she's got

0:20:280:20:30

the same apron that I do, the Union Jack one.

0:20:300:20:33

-Do you have to be an Olympian?

-Yeah, I think so.

-Now, that...

0:20:330:20:36

-I think so.

-I like a fact.

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-I'm just going to write that down.

-LAUGHTER

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-It might come up on Pointless soon.

-Yep.

0:20:390:20:41

Now, Sports Personality Of The Year not only celebrates the achievements

0:20:410:20:44

of the year, it also looks back on the achievements of a lifetime.

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The gaffer, Sir Bobby Robson.

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One of the greatest evenings of my life.

0:20:500:20:53

George Best.

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Thank you very much, it's wonderful to be here.

0:20:540:20:56

This year's lifetime achievement, the winner is Martina Navratilova.

0:20:560:21:00

This year's lifetime achievement award goes to Sir Bobby Charlton.

0:21:000:21:04

Absolutely knocked out with this.

0:21:040:21:06

Severiano Ballesteros.

0:21:060:21:08

Thank you very much to everyone.

0:21:080:21:10

Make the sacrifices, because it's worth it.

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Sir Chris Hoy.

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Thank you so much.

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Sir Chris Hoy joining a long list of sporting luminaries there.

0:21:200:21:24

From cycling on the boards to cycling on the roads and this year

0:21:240:21:27

was another record-breaking year for Chris Froome.

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A fourth yellow jersey was followed

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by the red jersey of the Vuelta a Espana.

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Here to tell us about his story is Sir Chris Hoy,

0:21:340:21:37

who won SPOTY the last time we were here in Liverpool.

0:21:370:21:40

The 2008 season was the dream season, really.

0:21:400:21:43

I won triple gold in Beijing, which was the dream, but I never really

0:21:430:21:46

believed it was going to happen and to finish the year

0:21:460:21:49

with the Sports Personality Trophy was the cherry

0:21:490:21:51

on top of the icing on top of the cake.

0:21:510:21:53

The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2008 is...

0:21:530:21:57

Chris Hoy.

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CHEERING

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And then they read my name out and it was brilliant, but also

0:22:000:22:03

oh, my God, I'm going to have to think of something to say now!

0:22:030:22:05

I sort of walked up really slowly thinking,

0:22:050:22:07

"Right, don't forget anybody."

0:22:070:22:08

I would say this year, Chris Froome's sporting achievements

0:22:100:22:13

rank alongside anybody's in any sport.

0:22:130:22:15

Obviously, as a cyclist, I'm biased but I think, you know, he is...

0:22:150:22:18

He could be a worthy winner this year.

0:22:180:22:20

An historic day in world sport as Britain's Chris Froome

0:22:200:22:23

has become the first cyclist to win both the Tour de France

0:22:230:22:26

and Vuelta a Espana titles

0:22:260:22:27

at its current position in the racing calendar.

0:22:270:22:30

You'd be hard pushed not to say

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that he's the greatest grand tour rider of his generation.

0:22:310:22:34

Four times Tour de France champion, Vuelta champion...

0:22:340:22:37

His consistency, the way that he deals with everything

0:22:370:22:40

that's thrown at him in those three-week tours.

0:22:400:22:43

He doesn't seek the limelight,

0:22:430:22:45

he just wants to be the best he can possibly be

0:22:450:22:48

and he has this desire to win, win, win.

0:22:480:22:51

2017 for me just has been the final product

0:22:530:22:56

of everything coming together.

0:22:560:22:57

I've won the Tour de France now four times,

0:22:570:22:59

but each time, rolling into Paris, I've welled up with tears.

0:22:590:23:03

It's just so emotional.

0:23:030:23:04

It marks the end of this three-week journey around France

0:23:040:23:09

that you just...

0:23:090:23:10

It feels as if you're just up against all the odds every day.

0:23:100:23:13

It's just an amazing feeling,

0:23:130:23:15

amazing feeling of having won the biggest bike race in the world.

0:23:150:23:18

Chris Froome will take part in this year's Vuelta a Espana.

0:23:180:23:22

Only two other riders in history have won the Tour

0:23:220:23:24

and Vuelta in the same year.

0:23:240:23:27

Normally in grand Tours, you have a few stages in between

0:23:270:23:30

that are for us climbers and GC riders.

0:23:300:23:32

We can sit in the bunch

0:23:320:23:33

and get a little bit of a recovery day, if you like.

0:23:330:23:36

In this year's Vuelta, every single day was just game on.

0:23:360:23:39

This was by far the hardest one I'd ever done,

0:23:390:23:42

so, yeah, I'm extremely grateful to have been able to back it up

0:23:420:23:45

from the Tour de France.

0:23:450:23:46

It's a dream come true. It's just incredible.

0:23:460:23:49

An award like the Sports Personality Of The Year,

0:23:490:23:51

it's an opportunity to be able to reflect on what has been

0:23:510:23:55

and it's not something we do very often.

0:23:550:23:57

For me, it's quite a special time of the year to be able to look

0:23:570:24:00

back on what 2017 has been for me and what it's meant to me.

0:24:000:24:04

Certainly, this year has been, I would say,

0:24:040:24:08

the most amazing season of my career.

0:24:080:24:10

From domination in road cycling to unrivalled consistency

0:24:120:24:15

on a motorbike. Northern Ireland's Jonathan Rea

0:24:150:24:18

won his third consecutive World Superbike title this year.

0:24:180:24:22

It's simply never been done before.

0:24:220:24:24

I sort of got hooked on bikes watching my dad.

0:24:280:24:30

I was wanting to polish the wheels for my dad's bike

0:24:300:24:33

and like I see my son now wanting to get involved.

0:24:330:24:35

I had a 50cc motocross bike and it must have been

0:24:350:24:38

crossing at the time where my grandfather passed away and

0:24:380:24:41

he was always telling me that "One day, you'll be world champion, son."

0:24:410:24:45

Johnny Rea, three times world champion in consecutive years.

0:24:460:24:50

80% podium rate in the three years that he's done it, 50% win rate.

0:24:500:24:54

It's unheard of. I mean, Johnny Rea won more races this year

0:24:540:24:57

than I won in my whole career.

0:24:570:25:00

He just ticks every box for me, to be honest.

0:25:000:25:02

Consistency, aggression, wet weather riding.

0:25:020:25:06

That's the key, to be very fast

0:25:060:25:07

and very consistent and you win championships.

0:25:070:25:10

It's not rocket science.

0:25:100:25:11

The key to the year was the start of the season,

0:25:130:25:15

but there's been so many keys to the year. I've...

0:25:150:25:18

I've had so many race wins this year

0:25:180:25:20

that it's kind of just made the championship.

0:25:200:25:23

I didn't ever have to think about the championship

0:25:230:25:25

from a points point of view.

0:25:250:25:26

I was confident going to Donington this year

0:25:280:25:30

and in race one I was doing my job at the front

0:25:300:25:33

and suddenly my tyre started losing pressure.

0:25:330:25:35

All of a sudden, the bike went from underneath me

0:25:350:25:39

going down the fastest part of the circuit.

0:25:390:25:41

But I made amends for it the next day by going out

0:25:430:25:45

and, you know, putting a really, really strong race win in

0:25:450:25:49

and changed the dynamic of the season.

0:25:490:25:51

As soon as the lights went out on the race, I was...

0:25:530:25:56

I was ready to make it mine

0:25:560:25:58

and that is the best way I've won the championship yet.

0:25:580:26:01

To win one is amazing, really,

0:26:010:26:03

so to win three is incredible. It really is.

0:26:030:26:06

Obviously, Carl Fogarty holds the record, four times champion.

0:26:060:26:09

Johnny could be six, seven, eight.

0:26:090:26:11

I've held the record for 20 years, I think it is.

0:26:110:26:13

That's long enough to hold a record. Records are made for breaking and...

0:26:130:26:16

No, I couldn't think of anyone better

0:26:160:26:17

for it to go to than Jonathan.

0:26:170:26:19

I'm still with the best team in the championship,

0:26:190:26:21

I'm still with the best manufacturer in the championship,

0:26:210:26:23

I'm still going to be the strongest rider in the championship,

0:26:230:26:26

so, yeah, I don't see the train slowing down any time soon.

0:26:260:26:29

Come on in and join the party, please.

0:26:290:26:31

World Superbike champion James Toseland.

0:26:310:26:34

A pal of mine, James Toseland, got nominated in 2007.

0:26:350:26:38

I remember I actually watched that night

0:26:380:26:41

and he rode onto the stage and played the piano.

0:26:410:26:43

It's a really special evening of a lot of people

0:26:430:26:46

and the BBC recognising what you've achieved.

0:26:460:26:49

I'd love to ride onto the stage,

0:26:490:26:51

but I'm definitely not playing the piano.

0:26:510:26:53

-Well, that's going to be some entrance on Sunday.

-Yeah.

0:26:550:26:58

Motorcycling is very, very big in Northern Ireland.

0:26:580:27:00

Huge in Northern Ireland.

0:27:000:27:01

In fact, in 2015, they held a poll

0:27:010:27:03

to find Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsperson.

0:27:030:27:06

And, yeah, they've had some amazing sports people.

0:27:060:27:08

I'll tell you who didn't win - George Best didn't win.

0:27:080:27:10

-Dame Mary Peters?

-Dame Mary Peters didn't win, Rory McIlroy didn't win.

0:27:100:27:13

It was a road bike racer, Joey Dunlop.

0:27:130:27:16

The greatest sportsman in Northern Irish history,

0:27:160:27:18

and Johnny Rea is a great heir to that legacy, I have to say.

0:27:180:27:22

Is there something about the roads, do you think,

0:27:220:27:24

-that has cultivated this?

-I guess there must be, yes.

0:27:240:27:27

No stats on the roads?

0:27:270:27:29

Well, I tell you what, I mean, Johnny Rea, it's meaningless to him

0:27:290:27:32

because he can't actually ride a bike on the road.

0:27:320:27:34

He doesn't have a licence.

0:27:340:27:35

-LAUGHTER

-Imagine!

0:27:350:27:37

Really, he literally is only allowed to drive on private tracks.

0:27:370:27:39

-He's got no...

-Just as well he's good at that.

-Yeah, isn't it?

0:27:390:27:43

And he is going at incredible speeds. 184mph.

0:27:430:27:48

Very close, in fact, his 0-60 in 3.12 seconds to the speed

0:27:480:27:52

that you would be entering the water,

0:27:520:27:53

-but you're just wearing budgie smugglers.

-I know!

0:27:530:27:56

-We do 1.8 seconds, 0-35 miles per hour, so it's pretty quick.

-Wow!

0:27:560:28:00

Faster than a motorbike. You must have big G force as well,

0:28:000:28:02

-presumably, when you're doing the...

-Yeah, exactly. It was actually...

0:28:020:28:05

-The thing!

-Yeah.

-You know, the thing. The thing, Gabby.

0:28:050:28:07

-Sorry, I'm...

-Doing the somersault and twists.

0:28:070:28:10

-I'm an intellectual diving judge.

-Exactly. Yeah, of course.

0:28:100:28:13

Yeah, the G force that we experience when we're spinning around,

0:28:130:28:16

although it's for shorter periods of time, is actually more than

0:28:160:28:19

what it is in Formula 1 and for Superbike racing too.

0:28:190:28:21

Now, what's interesting about Chris Froome's year is

0:28:210:28:24

not his fourth Tour de France, it's that that was almost a warm up

0:28:240:28:27

for him to the Vuelta, which was the aim of the season.

0:28:270:28:30

How do you do that as an athlete?

0:28:300:28:32

You know, you're peaking and trying to peak at the right time

0:28:320:28:35

knowing when you have to be at your very best.

0:28:350:28:37

Yeah, I mean, sometimes we have to train through certain competitions

0:28:370:28:41

to get to the peak competition,

0:28:410:28:42

whether it be a World Championships or the Vuelta.

0:28:420:28:45

And when you're training through a competition, sometimes,

0:28:450:28:47

because you don't have the expectation

0:28:470:28:49

of wanting to go out there and win

0:28:490:28:50

and thinking about winning that competition,

0:28:500:28:52

sometimes you just end up doing way better than you first expected to.

0:28:520:28:55

And there's no explanation for it, really,

0:28:550:28:58

-other than the fact Chris Froome is a machine.

-Yeah.

0:28:580:29:00

He's absolutely incredible.

0:29:000:29:02

It's like when you used the Olympics as a warm up for Splash.

0:29:020:29:04

-Exactly!

-It's exactly that, isn't it?

0:29:040:29:07

-You knew when you had to peak.

-Yeah, exactly.

0:29:070:29:09

You get the Olympics out the way and then you get into Splash.

0:29:090:29:11

But, yeah, he is a machine and, you know, to win those two events

0:29:110:29:14

and they're much closer together than they used to be,

0:29:140:29:16

the Vuelta and the Tour de France,

0:29:160:29:17

he essentially went John O'Groats to Land's End

0:29:170:29:21

five times in a row in just over a week

0:29:210:29:24

is what he did in those two events. Won both of them.

0:29:240:29:27

It's an incredible achievement. If he's ever going to win

0:29:270:29:29

Sports Personality Of The Year, you'd think it would be this year.

0:29:290:29:32

Only four cyclists have ever won, but three of them have been

0:29:320:29:35

in the last ten years, so Britain's love of cycling is really peaking.

0:29:350:29:38

Well, who says nice guys can't win?

0:29:380:29:41

Our next contender is one of the nicest and nastiest.

0:29:410:29:44

Big AJ might come over as a gentle giant, but he can pack a punch.

0:29:440:29:49

Seconds out for Anthony Joshua.

0:29:490:29:51

2017 ranks in the sense that the hard work just starts now.

0:29:520:29:56

When your idols become your rivals,

0:29:560:29:58

you have to kind of disregard all the respect that you have for them.

0:29:580:30:02

Train hard, go through your toughest battles under the dark lights

0:30:020:30:05

so you can shine under the bright lights.

0:30:050:30:08

I believe it's the biggest fight in British boxing history.

0:30:080:30:11

I feel totally obsessed.

0:30:110:30:13

It was a huge fight

0:30:130:30:14

and it's a lot of weight to put on somebody's shoulders.

0:30:140:30:16

Klitschko is very respectful, and I took inspiration from Klitschko,

0:30:160:30:20

so the press conference wasn't the most entertaining

0:30:200:30:22

in terms of flipping tables and disrespecting each other,

0:30:220:30:25

but it showed that's not where it matters.

0:30:250:30:27

Where it matters is in the ring.

0:30:270:30:28

And we are underway.

0:30:280:30:29

Anthony Joshua just taken a steam hammer of a right-hand

0:30:290:30:32

and Wladimir Klitschko is not reacting well.

0:30:320:30:35

This is a toe-to-toe slugfest.

0:30:350:30:36

Wobbles down to the canvas.

0:30:360:30:38

What a right-hand!

0:30:380:30:40

And Anthony Joshua is down.

0:30:400:30:41

Wladimir Klitschko in desperate trouble

0:30:410:30:43

and referee David Fields has stepped in.

0:30:430:30:46

Anthony Joshua has stopped his man.

0:30:460:30:48

Firstly, I thought it was a great fight. I think, you know,

0:30:480:30:51

you had all the ingredients you need in a great fight. There's drama.

0:30:510:30:54

You know, they both went down.

0:30:540:30:55

AJ would never have been in that sort of fight.

0:30:550:30:58

When you're fighting against an opponent

0:30:580:31:00

like Klitschko, Klitschko has been there, he's done it.

0:31:000:31:02

So a lot of people are going to see what's going to happen

0:31:020:31:05

when his back's against the ropes.

0:31:050:31:07

No fight is won easily.

0:31:070:31:08

I was two inches away from losing and I don't forget...

0:31:080:31:11

..the good and the bad that come with the sport.

0:31:110:31:13

You know, under them lights, in front of all them tens of thousands,

0:31:130:31:17

when you get hit on the chin and you go down,

0:31:170:31:20

that's something that just comes from instinct.

0:31:200:31:22

Boxing's a great sport because you come back,

0:31:220:31:25

you defend yourself, you give what you can and after, win or lose,

0:31:250:31:29

you shake hands and show a lot of respect to your opponent.

0:31:290:31:31

He knows that he's still learning and I love that.

0:31:310:31:34

You know, we never stop learning.

0:31:340:31:36

Even when I retired at 37, I was still learning.

0:31:360:31:38

Still trying to learn from my mistakes

0:31:380:31:39

because we all make mistakes.

0:31:390:31:41

I've seen the different sides of the table,

0:31:410:31:43

but both I can look at in a positive light

0:31:430:31:46

because both shape a person and both make a person who they are today.

0:31:460:31:51

If it wasn't for boxing, I don't know where I would be.

0:31:510:31:53

It can give people a life and better them as a person.

0:31:530:31:56

The 2007 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year is Joe Calzaghe.

0:31:560:32:01

Look at what AJ has done.

0:32:020:32:04

You know, at the end of the day, turned his life around.

0:32:040:32:06

He's a role model for many people.

0:32:060:32:08

I've given a lot of myself to, like, the public and what I do,

0:32:080:32:12

what I've done wrong and how I've, you know,

0:32:120:32:15

found sport and what it's done for me.

0:32:150:32:18

And to be nominated kind of reflects that journey that I've been on

0:32:180:32:22

and people are relating to it and understanding

0:32:220:32:24

where I'm coming from, so it's a real blessing and it's an honour.

0:32:240:32:28

It's fight night all right.

0:32:280:32:30

From the champion in the ring to the champion of the mat.

0:32:300:32:33

Liverpool local lass Bianca Walkden loves a scrap.

0:32:330:32:36

She's good at it too.

0:32:360:32:37

This year, she became the two-time tae kwon do world champion.

0:32:370:32:40

Tae kwon do's a really good martial arts.

0:32:410:32:44

It requires, like, a lot of discipline,

0:32:440:32:45

a lot of respect for your opponent because you're going out there

0:32:450:32:48

and you're trying to kill each other, basically, like, for the win.

0:32:480:32:51

Like, in the heavyweight girls, she is,

0:32:510:32:53

like, the most agile out of anybody,

0:32:530:32:54

so she's, like, lean, she's ripped.

0:32:540:32:57

You know, I take her kicks and it hurts,

0:32:570:32:59

like, sometimes my ribs are killing for ages.

0:32:590:33:01

I started tae kwon do when I was 11 years old.

0:33:060:33:08

As soon as I walked into the gym

0:33:080:33:10

and everyone was kicking each other, shouting at each other, trying

0:33:100:33:13

to knock each other out and I think, like, it just attracted me

0:33:130:33:17

there and then and here I am now.

0:33:170:33:19

Bianca is a very, very bubbly person.

0:33:230:33:26

She's lovable to be around.

0:33:260:33:27

And she was always beating her older sister up, to be fair,

0:33:270:33:30

practising, so it was in her to become a fighter.

0:33:300:33:34

She's a big role model to women in her sport.

0:33:340:33:38

They all really look up to her.

0:33:380:33:40

Yeah, what Bianca's achieved is absolutely phenomenal.

0:33:400:33:43

She's had a long, tough journey.

0:33:430:33:46

She had two ACL reconstructions.

0:33:460:33:48

In the past five years, I missed a home Olympics.

0:33:480:33:52

I've had to get eight screws in my knees

0:33:520:33:54

and get it all reconstructed, like, basically start again and,

0:33:540:33:58

yeah, it hasn't been an easy road for me to do, but that's

0:33:580:34:01

my motto now, like, to die trying and to never regret anything.

0:34:010:34:05

It's super hard to win the World Championships once.

0:34:050:34:07

You know, I've never won the worlds, so it's ridiculously hard.

0:34:070:34:10

-COMMENTATOR:

-Six minutes to decide who will be world champion.

0:34:100:34:14

I was just so focused, like, walking in. Didn't think of nothing.

0:34:140:34:18

And then as soon as I got to the middle of the court

0:34:180:34:20

and the ref said go, I don't think I even blinked.

0:34:200:34:23

I just kicked and I scored instantly.

0:34:230:34:26

Walkden in blue. Fires in straightaway.

0:34:260:34:28

Body shot straight out the blocks.

0:34:280:34:29

From that one kick, I thought, "I'm going to win this."

0:34:290:34:33

Bianca Walkden, dominating and owning the centre of the mat.

0:34:330:34:36

Walkden shuffles around well, great footwork.

0:34:360:34:39

Bianca Walkden, double world champion.

0:34:410:34:45

What a performer.

0:34:450:34:46

For her to do it back-to-back is phenomenal.

0:34:460:34:48

I don't think many people in the sport have done it.

0:34:480:34:51

Yeah, I did well that day! I did fight really well.

0:34:510:34:55

I showed, like, I didn't win it by a fluke.

0:34:550:34:58

It was nice to come out and be like, "Yeah, I did the job."

0:34:580:35:01

It's a massive achievement for me to be nominated for SPOTY

0:35:020:35:05

and I'm so honoured, like, to be recognised

0:35:050:35:08

with all them great athletes.

0:35:080:35:10

It's fantastic.

0:35:100:35:12

Scousers can't let me come last!

0:35:120:35:14

Now, Richard, there's a few firsts for Bianca Walkden.

0:35:150:35:18

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, firstly,

0:35:180:35:19

she's the first tae kwon do practitioner -

0:35:190:35:21

which is what you call someone who does tae kwon do -

0:35:210:35:23

first one ever to be nominated,

0:35:230:35:25

so it's amazing for people to see this sport and also to see her.

0:35:250:35:28

She's absolutely incredible.

0:35:280:35:29

But I was looking through to see which sports have never won

0:35:290:35:32

Sports Personality Of The Year. There's only three

0:35:320:35:34

big British sports, I think, that have never won.

0:35:340:35:36

-Darts has never won.

-Gymnastics has definitely never won.

0:35:360:35:38

Gymnastics has never won. Rugby league has never won.

0:35:380:35:40

They've had a second place with Kevin Sinfield.

0:35:400:35:42

Gymnastics has only... Third is the best a gymnast has ever finished.

0:35:420:35:46

Do you know who that would be?

0:35:460:35:47

-Tweddle, right?

-Beth Tweddle came third.

0:35:470:35:49

And darts, Phil Taylor has come second.

0:35:490:35:51

And, of course, she lives with double Olympic champion Jade Jones.

0:35:510:35:54

What's that like when you're with somebody who is living

0:35:540:35:56

and breathing the sport you're competing in?

0:35:560:35:58

I think it's something good to have a team-mate live with you

0:35:580:36:02

because if you have someone that is understanding the commitment,

0:36:020:36:05

the dedication, having to eat the right things,

0:36:050:36:07

making sure you're going to bed at the right time,

0:36:070:36:09

those little things are really make a massive difference

0:36:090:36:12

because if you're living with someone who doesn't understand sport

0:36:120:36:14

then you're not going to give yourself the best chance.

0:36:140:36:17

-Have you ever done that?

-Well, I actually lived...

0:36:170:36:19

Just before Rio, my synchro partner, Dan,

0:36:190:36:20

moved in with me for six weeks before we left.

0:36:200:36:22

It really does help you build a dynamic as well

0:36:220:36:25

to get past just talking about the sport.

0:36:250:36:27

You can actually talk about other things.

0:36:270:36:29

-So you live with a synchro partner?

-Yes.

0:36:290:36:30

I would love to have seen that at breakfast.

0:36:300:36:32

-It must have been like that Morecambe and Wise sketch.

-Exactly.

0:36:320:36:35

-The two of you...

-Eat our eggs at the same time.

0:36:350:36:37

Of course, a local lass, she's going to get a wonderful reception.

0:36:370:36:39

-Absolutely.

-So, Anthony Joshua, what a year it's been for him.

0:36:390:36:43

Is he the hardest man on the planet?

0:36:430:36:45

Is it possible to quantify that?

0:36:450:36:46

Er, well, it's possible to quantify how hard he can punch.

0:36:460:36:49

He can punch at 5,000 Newtons. If you know what... This is roughly...

0:36:490:36:53

-That's, like, four Newtons.

-Oh!

-So 5,000 is quite hard.

0:36:530:36:57

No, he is. One thing you can quantify, if he wins, Joshua,

0:36:570:37:00

he'll be the tallest ever winner

0:37:000:37:02

of Sports Personality Of The Year.

0:37:020:37:03

-Wow!

-A subject close to my heart.

0:37:030:37:05

He's one metre 98.

0:37:050:37:07

And it was, of course, the biggest post-war

0:37:070:37:09

attendance at a boxing match of 90,000.

0:37:090:37:11

He certainly has global reach in his fan base, doesn't he?

0:37:110:37:14

And it's particularly kicking off on social media as well.

0:37:140:37:16

Being congratulated by boxing greats,

0:37:160:37:18

even Arnold Schwarzenegger and a funny tweet from Stuart Broad

0:37:180:37:21

that actually said Moeen Ali was going to be his next opponent.

0:37:210:37:24

Like, I mean, can you imagine that fight?

0:37:240:37:26

It would be an interesting one.

0:37:260:37:27

Cruel beyond belief, I think.

0:37:270:37:29

I mean, the next fight will be interesting, actually.

0:37:290:37:31

He's got a really good chance of winning this year,

0:37:310:37:34

like lots of people have, but, you know, next year

0:37:340:37:36

if he's fighting Parker and Deontay Wilder,

0:37:360:37:37

if he can win both of those, first person

0:37:370:37:40

to unify the heavyweight division since Lennox Lewis.

0:37:400:37:42

So, you know, the future is very, very bright for Anthony Joshua.

0:37:420:37:47

We saw that future and its potential in 2012, didn't we,

0:37:470:37:50

when he won Olympic gold?

0:37:500:37:52

Did you see much of him in 2012?

0:37:520:37:53

I mean, he's just so nice.

0:37:530:37:55

I remember actually going to EIS for a regular physio appointment

0:37:550:37:58

and he walked out of one of the treatment rooms.

0:37:580:38:00

He is just a massive and he is the definition of the BFG.

0:38:000:38:03

When I met him, I thought he was quite short.

0:38:030:38:05

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, yeah. Of course you would. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:38:050:38:07

Sports Personality Of The Year has always celebrated young sports stars

0:38:070:38:11

who are growing into sporting greatness.

0:38:110:38:14

This guy has won Young SPOTY three times and joins a long list

0:38:140:38:18

of budding sports stars who have blossomed into sporting legends.

0:38:180:38:22

Wayne Rooney, record-breaker.

0:38:250:38:28

Claudia Fragapane. She's in third.

0:38:290:38:31

The waiting is over.

0:38:340:38:36

My next goal really is to get to the 2008 Olympics.

0:38:440:38:47

What did it mean to win Young Sports Personality Of The Year?

0:38:510:38:54

I mean, it's such an honour to be among the list of such

0:38:540:38:58

amazing sports stars and it seems so long ago now.

0:38:580:39:01

I was only 12 when I won the first time and it was...

0:39:010:39:04

Yeah, I remember my dad telling me

0:39:040:39:06

and it was definitely an emotional time.

0:39:060:39:08

-Three times now.

-I know, three times.

0:39:080:39:10

-You're still only 23.

-I know.

0:39:100:39:12

Well, from the wonder kid to the comeback kid

0:39:120:39:14

and after being disqualified from all three of her events

0:39:140:39:17

at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, 2017 was a year of redemption for

0:39:170:39:21

three-time world short track speed skating champion Elise Christie.

0:39:210:39:25

We haven't seen a woman deliver gold on ice skates

0:39:250:39:27

since a certain pair Bolero-ed their way into British hearts in 1984.

0:39:270:39:32

Sports Personality Of The Year, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

0:39:320:39:36

It was amazing to win Sports Personality Of The Year, but it's

0:39:370:39:41

been a long time since someone from the ice rink has been nominated.

0:39:410:39:44

Elise Christie was a figure skater until the age of 14.

0:39:440:39:48

Then she changed it a speed skating and has never looked back,

0:39:480:39:51

even after a tough winter Olympics in 2014.

0:39:510:39:55

Oh, they've gone down!

0:39:550:39:56

They've all gone down.

0:39:560:39:58

Christie has been penalised.

0:39:580:39:59

I just use my instinct and went for it and, unfortunately,

0:39:590:40:02

you know, now I'm regretting that.

0:40:020:40:03

I can't believe it, Christie's been penalised again.

0:40:040:40:08

Obviously, you know, I found it hard,

0:40:080:40:10

but, you know, I've got to keep just pushing through.

0:40:100:40:13

..and takes Christie out as well.

0:40:140:40:16

I just can't believe it's happened again.

0:40:170:40:19

I've spent all this time training, not to even be given the chance

0:40:190:40:22

to do that final.

0:40:220:40:25

For me at the time, it was such a big loss, you know,

0:40:250:40:28

and then I also knew what everyone else had been saying

0:40:280:40:31

on social media.

0:40:310:40:32

The British speed skater Elise Christie has been the victim

0:40:320:40:35

of online bullying after a tough Winter Olympics in Sochi.

0:40:350:40:39

Everyone was just abusing me online and I just withdrew from everything.

0:40:390:40:43

I just didn't talk to anyone.

0:40:430:40:45

There was nothing anyone could do, I was just so scared and alone.

0:40:450:40:49

I became too scared of losing the medal to win.

0:40:500:40:53

I became this...a bit more timid and picked up medals for a few years.

0:40:530:40:58

I came back for last season and was risking to win

0:40:580:41:02

and not being afraid of failing

0:41:020:41:03

and now I feel I'm very much there in that place.

0:41:030:41:06

It shows a lot of mental strength to come back

0:41:060:41:09

from such a disappointment.

0:41:090:41:11

I think it shows how strong of a person Elise is,

0:41:110:41:15

never mind how strong she is physically, but also mentally.

0:41:150:41:18

Elise Christie!

0:41:180:41:20

MUSIC: Remember The Name by Fort Minor

0:41:200:41:25

The first one I think, you know, was the biggest deal

0:41:350:41:38

cos, obviously, that's it, you've done it,

0:41:380:41:40

you'll always be a world champion

0:41:400:41:42

and I just remember screaming, like, and I never act like that.

0:41:420:41:45

My emotions tend to stay in the box in public.

0:41:450:41:48

It's fantastic that she could win three gold medals,

0:41:480:41:51

to win one is great but to have three,

0:41:510:41:54

what a very talented young lady.

0:41:540:41:56

It was my dream to be world champion for a while

0:41:560:41:58

but I wasn't actually aiming for the overall title yet, that was...

0:41:580:42:02

That was on a different year on the trajectory.

0:42:020:42:05

It was an incredible season.

0:42:050:42:07

What a story and fingers crossed for Elise in a few weeks' time

0:42:070:42:10

at the Winter Olympics.

0:42:100:42:11

Now, from blades on the ice to a blade on the track,

0:42:110:42:14

Jonnie Peacock is the double Paralympic champion.

0:42:140:42:17

He's the Usain Bolt of para-athletics, strictly speaking.

0:42:170:42:22

When I was five, I was quite ill.

0:42:220:42:25

I was covered head to toe in a rash.

0:42:250:42:27

It was meningitis,

0:42:270:42:29

I was rushed into hospital, put into a coma.

0:42:290:42:32

Just before I went to sleep,

0:42:320:42:34

they told my mum that this was possibly going to be the last time

0:42:340:42:39

that she could ever see me, so to perhaps say goodbye.

0:42:390:42:42

She didn't say goodbye, she told me to fight it.

0:42:430:42:47

Luckily, I managed to fight it off.

0:42:480:42:52

We had some blood pressure issues with my leg,

0:42:520:42:55

that's basically why it was dying.

0:42:550:42:58

They realised that the best course going forward would be to amputate.

0:42:580:43:02

As soon as they gave me a leg and I'd learned to walk,

0:43:020:43:05

I was pretty much running.

0:43:050:43:07

I just loved sports so I don't think I would have ever let

0:43:070:43:10

anything hold me back.

0:43:100:43:12

CROWD: Peacock!

0:43:120:43:13

"Peacock, Peacock!" rings around the arena here.

0:43:130:43:15

Peacock striding clear.

0:43:170:43:19

Peacock takes the gold for Britain.

0:43:190:43:22

I think Jonnie is a massive inspiration,

0:43:220:43:24

to be able to do one Paralympics and become champion is one thing

0:43:240:43:28

but then to be able to come back and do it again is an amazing thing.

0:43:280:43:32

Little children, kind of adults,

0:43:320:43:33

everyone around the world will look up to him and think,

0:43:330:43:36

"Well, if he can do it with everything that he's been through,

0:43:360:43:38

"why can't I?"

0:43:380:43:39

Peacock's gold again!

0:43:390:43:41

He is now one of the great Paralympians.

0:43:410:43:44

Going back to that stadium where it all started for me

0:43:440:43:47

and to be able to do a home Paralympics

0:43:470:43:49

and a home World Championships,

0:43:490:43:52

those two medals were always going to mean a lot.

0:43:520:43:54

That track's special to me.

0:43:540:43:55

The last two years really have been leading up to that race.

0:43:550:43:58

Jonnie Peacock's riding away from the blocks.

0:43:580:44:01

Peacock will cross the line with a roar.

0:44:010:44:03

Peacock won here five years ago.

0:44:030:44:05

He's returned to this stadium and produced again.

0:44:050:44:08

Being nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year,

0:44:080:44:11

it's such an honour, you know, the names that have been on this list

0:44:110:44:14

and to be within those names is really incredible.

0:44:140:44:18

About a month ago, I saw the doctor that took my leg off

0:44:180:44:20

and I think it was good to see him see me

0:44:200:44:23

because at the time when he has to decide whether to amputate or not,

0:44:230:44:26

he's obviously doing it under the assumption

0:44:260:44:29

that I'm going to be better for it, I'm going to live a better life.

0:44:290:44:33

So I think seeing that I've kind of dealt with things OK

0:44:330:44:36

and that I was running,

0:44:360:44:38

he realised that he makes decisions that really do...

0:44:380:44:41

..do the best.

0:44:420:44:44

Richard, can you put Jonnie Peacock's achievements

0:44:440:44:46

-into context for us?

-Yeah, well, the T44 100 metres,

0:44:460:44:49

that's the blue ribbon, really, of the Paralympics.

0:44:490:44:52

That is, essentially, the 100 metres race.

0:44:520:44:54

He has not lost a final in T44 100 metres.

0:44:540:44:57

He's absolutely dominant in that event,

0:44:570:44:59

it's an incredible achievement, you know, added to that,

0:44:590:45:02

he got further through Strictly than virtually anyone else

0:45:020:45:04

who's ever been nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year.

0:45:040:45:07

Iwan Thomas got knocked out in the first round.

0:45:070:45:10

Tony Jacklin got knocked out in the first round.

0:45:100:45:12

Joe Calzaghe made it to week five.

0:45:120:45:14

Denise Lewis made the final.

0:45:140:45:15

Denise Lewis and Colin Jackson both came second.

0:45:150:45:18

They're the best Sports Personality podium finishers ever in Strictly.

0:45:180:45:21

-What an interesting connection.

-How did you do?

-Sorry?

0:45:210:45:24

-How did you do?

-That's a pointless question. Erm...

0:45:240:45:26

TOM LAUGHS

0:45:260:45:27

We've kind of got used to para success, Games upon Games,

0:45:270:45:31

but Jonnie was at the vanguard of that and he really brought it

0:45:310:45:34

to the fore, didn't he, and gave it a public face, if you like?

0:45:340:45:37

-He was the poster boy.

-Yeah, I mean, in 2012,

0:45:370:45:40

the British public were obsessed with the Paralympics.

0:45:400:45:42

They wanted more from the Olympics and it was the Paralympics

0:45:420:45:45

and we had the superheroes that were the para athletes

0:45:450:45:47

and Jonnie Peacock really championed that and now he's just been

0:45:470:45:50

so successful year after year after year.

0:45:500:45:52

So, I mean, he's a great guy.

0:45:520:45:54

Elise Christie had such a terrible Olympics in 2014

0:45:540:45:58

and that happens to athletes

0:45:580:45:59

but what happened next to her was unforgivable,

0:45:590:46:02

the kind of abuse she received, death threats on social media.

0:46:020:46:05

How does an athlete deal with that kind of personal torment?

0:46:050:46:08

I mean, it's tough enough to go into an Olympic Games

0:46:080:46:10

after four years of training, training relentlessly day in,

0:46:100:46:13

day out for that one moment

0:46:130:46:15

and if you get disqualified or if you bomb out and then to have

0:46:150:46:18

on top of that people trolling you on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,

0:46:180:46:22

YouTube, whatever it is, you know, it's really tough to deal with.

0:46:220:46:25

-And what...?

-Especially... Especially, I think, in a sport

0:46:250:46:28

that's so competitive and so exciting

0:46:280:46:30

as short track speed skating cos it's a fantastic sport to watch

0:46:300:46:33

and it's great to have a Briton right at the top of their game.

0:46:330:46:36

I think my favourite ever Winter Olympic moment

0:46:360:46:39

was when Australia, do you remember this,

0:46:390:46:41

-won their first-ever...

-Gold.

-..gold medal?

-Yes.

0:46:410:46:43

Steven Bradbury when he was at the back of the field and everyone...

0:46:430:46:46

-Everybody got wiped out.

-Yeah.

-Oh, my good...

0:46:460:46:48

I could watch that clip all day long.

0:46:480:46:50

Is there any precedent to say how she will do?

0:46:500:46:52

Can you give us any steer on Elise's chances?

0:46:520:46:54

Hard to tell. I mean, there haven't been that many Scottish winners,

0:46:540:46:57

funnily enough. We know the most successful

0:46:570:46:59

Sports Personality Of The Year competitor ever

0:46:590:47:01

is Andy Murray, he's won three times.

0:47:010:47:03

The youngest ever winner, Ian Black, the swimmer, was 17, he's Scottish.

0:47:030:47:06

-Only three other Scottish winners.

-Liz McColgan.

0:47:060:47:09

Liz McColgan won it. There was a motor racer...

0:47:090:47:11

-Jackie Stewart.

-Jackie Stewart.

-Of course.

0:47:130:47:15

And a gentleman we've talked to and seen already before, a cyclist.

0:47:150:47:18

-Chris Hoy.

-Chris Hoy.

0:47:180:47:19

But, yeah, been a very successful time for the Scots recently

0:47:190:47:22

in Sports Personality Of The Year,

0:47:220:47:23

we'll see if she can continue that run.

0:47:230:47:25

Well, as you know, this year's SPOTY comes from Liverpool

0:47:250:47:27

and there are few cities which can boast its sporting heritage -

0:47:270:47:30

one of the greatest footballing rivalries in the world

0:47:300:47:33

and the jewel in the crown of the racing calendar.

0:47:330:47:35

This is the Mersey sound of football.

0:47:350:47:38

MUSIC: She Loves You by The Beatles

0:47:380:47:42

..wins the National!

0:47:460:47:48

It's a goal.

0:47:480:47:50

Keegan. 1-0.

0:47:500:47:52

They're running it home now.

0:47:530:47:55

Kenny Dalglish!

0:47:560:47:57

What a fantastic goal.

0:48:000:48:02

Over the line...

0:48:020:48:03

Right off.

0:48:040:48:06

Fowler's coming in...

0:48:060:48:08

Oh!

0:48:080:48:09

Michael Owen for Liverpool...

0:48:100:48:12

Oh, he's done it!

0:48:120:48:14

To Rooney!

0:48:140:48:15

Rooney, Fowler, Owen,

0:48:180:48:20

all strikers who featured in that famous Liverpool Derby

0:48:200:48:23

and then for England.

0:48:230:48:24

But one striker looking to eclipse them all is our next contender,

0:48:240:48:27

a goal-scoring machine.

0:48:270:48:29

This year Harry Kane has earned his spurs.

0:48:290:48:32

My passion for goals has just, yeah, it's been there since I was a kid,

0:48:330:48:36

really, playing over the park with my dad and brother.

0:48:360:48:40

The feeling of scoring a goal, it never gets old...

0:48:400:48:43

Obviously except for the birth of my baby daughter,

0:48:430:48:45

there's not much else that comes close to it, to be honest.

0:48:450:48:48

He's just shown great determination, willpower,

0:48:480:48:52

perseverance.

0:48:520:48:53

He's not far away from being the perfect striker.

0:48:530:48:56

It's what I think about pretty much every day of my life.

0:48:560:48:58

What finishes, right foot, left foot, cutting inside,

0:48:580:49:01

crossing, free kicks cos in the game, you never know

0:49:010:49:04

what chance you're going to get.

0:49:040:49:05

He's probably the most all-round striker that is playing

0:49:050:49:09

at the moment and for that very reason, a defender just can never,

0:49:090:49:12

ever switch off because he can score any type of goal.

0:49:120:49:15

Here's Kane.

0:49:150:49:17

Kane, 1-0!

0:49:170:49:18

Oh, that's fantastic!

0:49:180:49:20

Across to Kane...

0:49:200:49:22

100 Tottenham goals!

0:49:220:49:25

Kane is there and England score!

0:49:250:49:28

As a kid growing up, you always dream of playing for England

0:49:280:49:31

and, of course, captaining one day,

0:49:310:49:32

but you never kind of think it's going to come true,

0:49:320:49:34

so to have that opportunity and to score that last-minute winner

0:49:340:49:37

to send us to the World Cup, it was just incredible.

0:49:370:49:39

There is no doubt about it that Harry Kane

0:49:390:49:41

is England's brightest hope.

0:49:410:49:43

To have that feeling, that you're leading your country out

0:49:430:49:47

in front of everyone, in front of your team-mates,

0:49:470:49:49

in front of 80-90,000, it's the biggest thing that can happen.

0:49:490:49:52

If Harry Kane keeps going the way he is, wins a big trophy,

0:49:520:49:55

with England or with Tottenham,

0:49:550:49:57

then that really catapults you into the limelight

0:49:570:49:59

and then maybe on the list of the Ballon d'Or recipients.

0:49:590:50:03

Ronaldo and Messi have cleaned up, haven't they, for many years now?

0:50:030:50:05

Someone's got to break the mould eventually.

0:50:050:50:07

To be put in the same breath as Ronaldo and Messi

0:50:070:50:10

is something I'm proud of.

0:50:100:50:11

They obviously set the bar for every other footballer, really,

0:50:110:50:15

the Ballon d'Ors they've won, the goals they score.

0:50:150:50:17

Yeah, it's great to be up there with them numbers

0:50:170:50:19

but it's about turning that into winning trophies,

0:50:190:50:22

winning Champions Leagues, winning Premier Leagues

0:50:220:50:25

and that's my ultimate goal.

0:50:250:50:27

The winner of the Sports Personality award for 1998 is...

0:50:270:50:32

..Michael Owen.

0:50:320:50:34

It's a mixed feeling, really, you're so elated and so happy

0:50:340:50:38

but as a young lad I was thinking, "Oh, right,

0:50:380:50:40

"I've got to do a speech now," and I didn't know what to say

0:50:400:50:43

and all the rest of it so I was concentrating on not making a fool

0:50:430:50:46

of myself in front of millions and millions of viewers.

0:50:460:50:48

So it was only after the show, really, that it sunk in

0:50:480:50:51

to think that I've won that really famous trophy.

0:50:510:50:53

To have been nominated for Sports Personality Of The Year

0:50:530:50:55

is a massive achievement,

0:50:550:50:57

probably wasn't expecting it, if I'm totally honest.

0:50:570:51:00

But it's been a fantastic year for me personally

0:51:000:51:02

and something I'm very proud of.

0:51:020:51:05

GABBY: Harry Kane has become Mr Consistent.

0:51:050:51:07

He's consistently getting better and better,

0:51:070:51:10

just like our next contender who breaks world records for fun.

0:51:100:51:13

In 2017, Adam Peaty became double world champion again.

0:51:130:51:17

Telling his story is a double Olympic champion

0:51:170:51:20

who came third at SPOTY in 2008 - Miss Rebecca Adlington.

0:51:200:51:25

2008 was just an incredible year for myself,

0:51:250:51:29

still probably one of the best years of my whole entire life

0:51:290:51:31

and to come away with a gold, something I never, ever,

0:51:310:51:34

ever expected, the cherry on top was getting that world record.

0:51:340:51:38

Rebecca Adlington, you are absolutely brilliant.

0:51:380:51:42

There's something special about Sports Personality,

0:51:420:51:44

something different.

0:51:440:51:45

When my name got announced as third, I was so honoured,

0:51:450:51:49

I felt like I was waving the flag for swimming.

0:51:490:51:51

Now we have a Adam Peaty who is just swimming through and through.

0:51:510:51:56

This is quite amazing, absolutely brilliant breaststroke swimming.

0:51:560:52:00

The rest of the world, reset their dreams

0:52:000:52:02

cos their dreams are no longer quick enough.

0:52:020:52:04

He's an absolute beast, isn't he?

0:52:040:52:07

The year in the pool has been incredible for me.

0:52:070:52:09

You know, obviously World Championships,

0:52:090:52:11

defending all my titles. I knew I wanted to represent my country

0:52:110:52:13

and I knew I wanted to do well, you know,

0:52:130:52:15

I'm not a person who's going to turn up and, you know,

0:52:150:52:17

just give a half a job.

0:52:170:52:18

You can go to Olympics, you can win it

0:52:180:52:20

but it's how you back up that win then.

0:52:200:52:22

25.95, I never thought I would live to see the day.

0:52:220:52:27

I turned around, I was like, "25.9." I was like, "Oh, my God,

0:52:270:52:30

"this is, this is unreal." And normally, you know, 50 metres,

0:52:300:52:33

yeah, you win by this much, you win by that much, but never this much.

0:52:330:52:36

You could tell he was shocked.

0:52:360:52:38

I loved his reaction after that race.

0:52:380:52:40

He just looked like a little kid again that's in a sweet shop.

0:52:400:52:43

Does he know any boundaries whatsoever?

0:52:430:52:46

I don't think he does.

0:52:460:52:47

Legacy is everything.

0:52:470:52:48

I mean, there's no point in doing sport and just coming and going.

0:52:480:52:51

I think, you know, you've got to go there,

0:52:510:52:53

put your foot down and say, you know, "This is my territory."

0:52:530:52:55

A good, clean start in this final of the men's 100 metres breaststroke.

0:52:550:52:58

Adam Peaty's destroyed the best in the world.

0:52:580:53:01

Is there nothing that this guy can't do?

0:53:010:53:02

You don't want to kind of fade into history, you want to say,

0:53:020:53:05

"Yes, he was one of the best,"

0:53:050:53:07

and that's kind of what motivates me now.

0:53:070:53:09

He's created new moulds now that everyone else wants to copy.

0:53:090:53:12

You've got kind of the eight-year-olds

0:53:120:53:14

in the swimming clubs wanting to copy Adam Peaty's stroke

0:53:140:53:17

and that is just such a legacy that he's going to leave behind.

0:53:170:53:20

Great Britain have won silver in the 4x100 medley relay,

0:53:200:53:23

largely thanks, of course, to Adam Peaty.

0:53:230:53:26

He's amongst the Michael Phelps,

0:53:260:53:28

you can put him in the same category as people like that.

0:53:280:53:31

Yes, he might not have the same medal count as somebody else

0:53:310:53:34

but he definitely has that presence and that recognition

0:53:340:53:37

because of how much he dominates and how much he's kept that level.

0:53:370:53:41

To be nominated for SPOTY for the fourth year is

0:53:410:53:43

amazing for me, you know,

0:53:430:53:44

I never thought I'd make it past the second one but, you know,

0:53:440:53:47

it's kind of not just for me,

0:53:470:53:50

it's recognising the achievements of my team.

0:53:500:53:52

I don't see why I can't keep winning for the next 10 years

0:53:520:53:54

or until I retire, you know, I'd love to go to LA 2028.

0:53:540:53:57

You just don't know but I'm just going to take each Olympic year

0:53:570:53:59

as it comes and, yeah, just enjoy the journey.

0:53:590:54:03

GABBY: Richard, the stats on this man are just ridiculous.

0:54:030:54:06

I mean, they really are.

0:54:060:54:07

It's his fourth straight year on the Sports Personality shortlist.

0:54:070:54:10

If you ever see him in these races, people are racing for seconds,

0:54:100:54:13

he doesn't just win by a bit, he really wins by a huge amount,

0:54:130:54:16

which especially in the 50 metres is extraordinary,

0:54:160:54:19

it's unprecedented.

0:54:190:54:20

One thing that might work against him,

0:54:200:54:22

he's the youngest contender on our shortlist, 22 years old.

0:54:220:54:26

No-one born after 1990 has ever won Sports Personality Of The Year.

0:54:260:54:30

-That has to change soon.

-It will change at some point.

0:54:300:54:32

He's also, as Rebecca Adlington said there,

0:54:320:54:34

being compared to Phelps in terms of his dominance,

0:54:340:54:37

which you've just alluded to why, not yet the golds

0:54:370:54:40

but for what he does, you know,

0:54:400:54:42

can we put him up in that kind of greatness?

0:54:420:54:44

He competes in fewer events than Phelps

0:54:440:54:46

so he'll probably never overhaul that kind of...

0:54:460:54:48

the medal haul of Michael Phelps.

0:54:480:54:49

But certainly in the events that he does, he's absolutely unbeatable.

0:54:490:54:52

What's he like to have around the squad?

0:54:520:54:54

What's his presence like, Tom?

0:54:540:54:56

I mean, he's hard-working,

0:54:560:54:58

he's a big inspiration and there's this aura around him

0:54:580:55:01

that just make...

0:55:010:55:02

You know, when you walk into a room and you see him there,

0:55:020:55:05

it's just something that...you just feel this energy of winning.

0:55:050:55:08

And so much so that at the British Championships,

0:55:080:55:11

he met this young kid afterwards and wanted him to sign

0:55:110:55:13

something for him, didn't have anything,

0:55:130:55:15

gave him his gold medal that qualified him

0:55:150:55:17

for the World Championships.

0:55:170:55:19

That fantastic social media VT he put up

0:55:190:55:21

-doing the push-ups...

-Yes.

-..and, you know, with the claps.

0:55:210:55:24

-Can you do that? Do you do that?

-We do lots...

0:55:240:55:26

We have to jump off our hands for handstands

0:55:260:55:28

so we do lots of that kind of training

0:55:280:55:30

to make sure that we can generate power. But...

0:55:300:55:32

-Same. Same, Gabby. You?

-Absolutely.

0:55:320:55:34

-Yeah, a lot of that.

-A lot of watching, Richard.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:55:340:55:36

He's definitely a strong lad, though.

0:55:360:55:38

Richard, Harry Kane has had an amazing year.

0:55:380:55:40

This is a guy who, four seasons ago,

0:55:400:55:42

was on the bench in the championship,

0:55:420:55:44

which goes to show what a bit of application can do,

0:55:440:55:46

he's clearly very talented as well. No, he's had a phenomenal year,

0:55:460:55:49

seems to go about things the right way as well.

0:55:490:55:51

Football stars often don't do brilliantly

0:55:510:55:53

on Sports Personality, some very, very big names have not won it.

0:55:530:55:57

Kevin Keegan was beaten by Seb Coe,

0:55:570:55:59

Gordon Banks was beaten by Dame Mary Peters.

0:55:590:56:02

Do you remember a player called Gary Lineker?

0:56:020:56:05

-Remember him?

-Oh... I'll look him up later.

0:56:050:56:08

Yeah, I don't know what happened to him.

0:56:080:56:09

Anyway, he got beaten by Liz McColgan and best of all,

0:56:090:56:12

George Best, who never won Sports Personality Of The Year

0:56:120:56:14

was beaten by Princess Anne.

0:56:140:56:15

Harry Kane has got a lovely way about him on social media,

0:56:150:56:18

hasn't he? There's always something interesting.

0:56:180:56:20

-His dogs, for example.

-Yeah, exactly.

0:56:200:56:22

He's a massive NFL fan

0:56:220:56:23

and he's called his dogs Brady and Wilson after Tom Brady

0:56:230:56:26

and Russell Wilson which, again, it's so cute,

0:56:260:56:28

the picture of the dogs as well. Bless him.

0:56:280:56:30

Tom, interestingly, every time there's a big football match,

0:56:300:56:33

your Twitter feed lights up.

0:56:330:56:34

I know, I'm not the biggest fan of football so I never know

0:56:340:56:36

when anything's on, but as soon as there's a dive on the pitch

0:56:360:56:39

I'm apparently the new coach of that team.

0:56:390:56:41

Everyone thinks they're the first person to do the joke.

0:56:410:56:43

Listen, I'm a Fulham fan and I present a show called Pointless,

0:56:430:56:46

so, listen, I have heard that joke before.

0:56:460:56:48

He's one of those people that I think the neutrals

0:56:480:56:50

don't mind embracing, which could stand him in good stead.

0:56:500:56:53

Yeah, listen, he's got that old-fashioned thing,

0:56:530:56:55

-which we need in British football. There's...

-He's called Harry?

0:56:550:56:58

Well, for many years we didn't have, no-one called Harry

0:56:580:57:00

had played for England for many, many years.

0:57:000:57:02

Now we've got Harry Kane, we've got Harry Maguire,

0:57:020:57:04

we've got Harry Winks, there's a whole load of Harrys coming out.

0:57:040:57:07

So you've seen all 12 of the contenders for 2017

0:57:070:57:10

but who will be crowned Sports Personality Of The Year

0:57:100:57:13

on Sunday evening? Well, as ever, it's your call.

0:57:130:57:16

You can sign in or register to vote now on the Sports Personality

0:57:170:57:21

section of the BBC Sport website

0:57:210:57:23

so you're ready to cast your all-important vote

0:57:230:57:25

when it opens during the live programme on December 17th.

0:57:250:57:29

Voting online is free and you'll also be able to pick up the phone

0:57:290:57:32

to vote from your landline or mobile.

0:57:320:57:34

Full terms and conditions are on the website.

0:57:340:57:36

Please register now and get ready to help decide the winner

0:57:360:57:39

of the 2017 Sports Personality Of The Year.

0:57:390:57:42

And Sports Personality Of The Year

0:57:420:57:44

is coming to you live from the Liverpool Echo Arena on Sunday.

0:57:440:57:48

You wouldn't want to miss it.

0:57:480:57:50

Last year, Birmingham was brummy marvellous. See you on Sunday.

0:57:500:57:54

Good evening and welcome

0:57:550:57:57

to the BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year 2016.

0:57:570:58:00

This year's Helen Rollason Award goes to the incredible Ben Smith.

0:58:000:58:04

Running gave me back my confidence.

0:58:040:58:06

The team of the year is Leicester City.

0:58:090:58:12

I feel very privileged to be standing here tonight.

0:58:130:58:16

We are in the presence of greatness tonight, Michael Phelps.

0:58:160:58:20

One of the greatest sporting icons the sport has ever had.

0:58:200:58:23

Thank you, thank you to everybody.

0:58:230:58:25

And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray.

0:58:250:58:30

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