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It is the year ending for Na Li and what an incredible sporting year it | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
has been. Welcome to a very special programme | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
- we look back at the Scots to have made the headlines. Who will be the | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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first Sport Nation sports person of It has been described as the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
greatest sporting year ever and Scots were at the heart of it. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Olympic gold, Grand Slam titles and world champions. Who would you say | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
has come out on top? That is the question we asked our | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
panel of experts. More on that later but first let's relive some | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
of the memorable moments of 2012 boast home and abroad. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Heather Stanning starred in the London 2012 gold rush when she won | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Team GB's first gold and the first ever women's gold medal for Great | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
Britain. I was thinking, look how many people are watching us! It was | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
incredible. Tim Baillie originally completed -- competed in the K one | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
class but he switched and he and Etienne Stott paddled to gold. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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Scott Brash won gold as part of the men's showjumping team. The man | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
from Peebles, Scott Brash, what a performance. Michael Jamieson took | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
silver in the 200 metres breaststroke. He broke two British | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
records on the way to the final and was only beaten in the final by the | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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two-time world champion who won in record time. David Florence won his | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
second Olympic silver. Luke Patience won silver in the 470 | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
class. Back in 1912 Britain last won a team medal in Olympic | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
gymnastics. A century later Daniel Purvis was part of the team who | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
rode their name in history. Emily McGuire it was part of the hockey | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
team who secured bronze over -- after a win against New Zealand. | :02:54. | :03:04. | |
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Eton Dorney saw a Team GB gold rush. David Smith's mixed cox for road to | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
gold, beating favourites Germany. Craig McLean cycled to gold with | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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his partner Anthony cappers. Neil Fachie won gold in the time-trial. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Them in the Olympic Stadium, two Scots who found Paralympic success, | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
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Libby Clegg and Stef Reid, both won silver. Aileen McGlynn celebrated | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
double Paralympic success, silver in the time-trial and bronze in the | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
individual pursuit. 18-year-old James Clegg made his Paralympic | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
debut in the poor and came away with a bronze medal in the 100 | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
metres butterfly. -- in the pool. The women had a year to forget -- | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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to forget but the men fared better. Only 10 other people have done what | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
Dario Franchitti did. 2012 will be a year to forget for Scotland's | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
rugby team, who got the wooden spin -- wooden spoon and the Six Nations. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
A then things seem to be looking up after three straight wins against | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
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Australia, Fiji and Samoa are but after a loss to Tonga Andrew | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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Robinson resigned. I have never seen a goal scored like that from | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
that distance. Without a win since 2008, Scotland were hoping for a | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
reversal in fortunes but Koh Dong island Duff Ireland proved too | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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strong. -- but Ireland proved too strong. Steve and Hendry showed | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
there was still life in the old dog when he got a 100 -- but after a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
quarter-final exit to Steve McGuire the most successful snooker player | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
of all time decided to hang up his pool cue. The -- his snooker cue. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Some great moments still to come as tonight we reveal sport nation's | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
choice for top form of 2012. make the final decision we asked | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
six experts to name the one sports man or one and they believed should | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
win. Let's meet the panel. Liz McColgan is a former world champion | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
and double Commonwealth games winner who is still at the heart of | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
Scottish athletics, coaching in her home town of Dundee. Graham O breed | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
twice hold -- held the world record in cycling. Even your head is a | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
four-time world junior champion. Lee McConnell has won world and | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
European and Commonwealth games medals in the 400 metres, 400-metre | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
hurdles and relays in her international career. For Alex | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Arthur is a former British European and WBO super-featherweight | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
champion with a professional record of 31 wins and just three losses. | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
Susan Engel star for his Scotland's most-capped badminton players. | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
is the panel. They challenge is to choose the sport nation person of | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
the year. We have narrowed it down to five Scots who have had its -- a | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
stand-out 2012. Ricky Burns, Scotland's WBO lightweight champion. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
There is or well-known theory in sport that says it takes hard work | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
to get to the top but even harder to stay there. If that is the case, | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
in 2012 Ricky Burns has put in the hard graft for stockists -- hard | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
graft. But 29-year-old has made it two successful defences of his WBO | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
lightweight crown. He makes to aimed -- to make that three in | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
London next week. I have just been getting more confident. I am coming | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
out and fighting a lot more aggressively. I think I have a good | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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combination. A successful first defence of his title came in the | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
spring. Burns once again showed his superpowers to the world. He is the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Clark Kent of boxing. Once he is in the ring he becomes Superman. At | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
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side he is a lovely guy. -- outside. Rickey Burns! The fight the fans | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
craved came in September. London's Kevin Mitchell was to provide the | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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spark and he came up against Burns power. Kevin Mitchell is being | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
knocked. Me and Kevin wanted to fight for a couple of years. The | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
fight had been talked about for so long and I think that is why I was | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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so up for it. It is all over in the 4th round! Kevin Mitchell is | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
rescued. The man who was supposedly not a puncher has achieved the win | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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of his career. After my last fight I went over for a week, took my | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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training staff. What did misses mind if I had a chance to meet | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
Floyd himself. -- she didn't. You wake up and the sun is out. Even at | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
night, the heat is unbelievable. It is so much better getting out of | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
rain -- out of bed and not having the rain. 2012, a phenomenal year | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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for Ricky Burns. I have been with Amanda for about eight years. She | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
always says that she is the mature one and I need to grow up. So the | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
real boss is misses Burns? That's right. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Now time for the Scottish golden girl of London 20 told. Katherine | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Grainger had three Olympic silver medals and six World Championships | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
but she could not get the one she really wanted, an Olympic gold | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
medal. Until the summer of 2012, Grainger proving that guts and | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
determination can make you succeed. It has been an exciting time for | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Katherine Grainger since the Olympic games. As well as a gold | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
medal she is receiving many accolades. Recently added -- | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
Edinburgh University named over in gym in her honour. -- a role in the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
gym. If it has been a whirlwind of things to do and places to go and | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
people to see. It is hard to believe it really did happen. It | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
was utter joy at the time. I did not think you could be that happy. | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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It was as amazing a high as Beijing was a low. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
Beijing took me a long time to come around to and move on from and deal | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
with. It took a few months. But I have not come down yet from this | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
one. After Beijing she changed her | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
discipline to compete in the double sculls with a new partner. | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
Me and her instantly knew that this had something that very few crews | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
had. I had not road in that boat class before. We knew from the | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
beginning that was the level we could be aiming at. That is what we | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
set about doing. Ultimately we loved it, we loved the journey. We | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
had so much passion for doing and racing. She can hang her scull stop | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
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now if she really wants to. -- sculls. A lot of people say, you | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
have to go again, you have Rio, you are at the top of your game. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Especially people who have just got excited by the Olympics this time | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
round. Other people think, well, fine if you want to continue but | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
consider what an amazing story it is up to this point. For this | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
Olympian it is not about being recognised. Most Olympians, | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
especially in the room -- in the less public sports that you don't | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
see much of in between the Games, very few people are driven by the | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
fame side. It is fun but it is not the reason you did why you did. But | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
I think we all have a responsibility to sort of spread | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
the word and share our experiences and what we have benefited from | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
sport and to get young people involved, women involved. The | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Olympics and the Paralympics transformed this country for | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
women's sport and we will always remember 2012. There is an aspect | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
that you don't want that to fade. It will inevitably but you want to | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
hang on to that enthusiasm, that passion, excitement, inspiration. | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
For a few weeks people thought Our next star of 2012 didn't win at | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
Wimbledon the first time around, but come the Olympics he came back | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
to Centre Court and defeated all who stood against him. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Even more was still to come, a grand slam victory had seemed so | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
close but yet so far, the 2012 was the year Andy Murray made history. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
To me it is a bit unfair the criticism he has been getting, very | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
similar to the situation I had losing to Bjorg, and so on. A | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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player needs to mature and he is Glorious five-hour match. Djokovic | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
is through to play Nadal in the 2012 Australian Open final. | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
Absolute respect to the effort of Murray today. He set the bar so | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
high last year, been working as hard as I could to try and close | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
that, and that is the main thing I take away from tonight, a great | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
performance from him, he was so dominant last year, to get by me, | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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What a way to do it! Andy Murray is through to his first ever Wimbledon | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
I got given two Angry Birds costumes for the dogs. That was | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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probably the strangest thing I've A brilliant start fron Murray, he | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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hasn't won a set in a grandslam Championship number seven for Roger | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
Federer. A fabulous first Wimbledon final for Andy Murray, he has done | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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So here we are, 28 days after that Wimbledon final won by Roger | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Federer, this time to host, for the second time in its history, the | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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He has got it, first blow in this Olympic final. There is another | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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It is a golden triumph for Andy Murray. And he finished off like a | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
What scenes here in New York, as the entire stadium rises for Andy | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
Murray. It has been a long summer for everybody, French, Wimbledon, | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
Olympics and now this. Played a lot of tennis but I gave everything in | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
final. Murray has three championship points to win his | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
first grand slam title. As Murray serves, forehand return from | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Djokovic, it is out, Andy Murray has won the title, his first grand | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
slam! Oh, my goodness, he has gone and done it and done it the hard | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
way. Cannot believe he has done it. Just can't. But he has. Andy Murray | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
is a grandslam champion. The moment it happened I realised I | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
had won I was very relieved, excited, emotional, happy and proud | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
and you think a lot about your career when a moment like this | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
happens and other things you have been through, a lot of tough losses | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
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Well, it was a fantastic year in golf for Paul Lawrie, the comeback | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
kid. He won two titles over the season and over �1.5 million in | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
prize money. And he played a big role in | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Europe's remarkable comeback in the Ryder Cup so Paul Lawrie is the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
fourth super Scot to be considered for the Sport Nation but Sports | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Peson Of The Year, 2012. Paul Lawrie's season has been | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
nothing short of remarkable, two wins and nine top-10 finishes | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
helping the 43-year-old earn over �1.5 million. And of course there | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
was Chicago, he was playing his part in helping Europe win the most | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
remarkable Ryder Cup match ever witnessed but the Aberdonian isn't | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
one to dwell on his achievements. It has been good. You want to keep | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
going. I want to make next year even better, that is what you try | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
and do, don't want to put too much importance on this year, I think it | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
is another good year, I was 18th in the order of merit in 2011, an | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
improvement on the year before. If I can improve on this year next | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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year and even better step forward. His successful 2012 is down to how | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
he finished 2011. Last year was a huge boost in confidence. I had a | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
run of top tens, won in Qatar. Every week was a snowball. | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Obviously your confidence will get a boost. He wasn't the only one | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
taking confidence from the way he is playing. Everybody knows how | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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good a golfer he is. He has been showing that week in week out. We | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
can use that as inspiration, the more players we have up there in | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
contention, the better for everybody. Of course the highlight | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
of the golfing year for many was the Ryder Cup. For Paul Lawrie a | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
return to the European team, after a 13-year absence. A vital win in a | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
singles match helping Europe comeback from 10-6 down to complete | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
a remarkable victory. We all thought, man, this is | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
possible, you turn around, look at the board, you can see points all | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
over the place. As much as it was a snowball for us, it was opposite | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
for them. They could see this is getting messy, this is getting | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
tight and we were there in 99 when it was on the other foot. It went | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
for us, it was fantastic to be part of it. I think it might never | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
happen again, the way it happened away from home, 10-6 down. 2012 has | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
been one of his busiest and best. How do you follow it up? By not | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
letting up, of course. Next season and in the years to come. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
What I do, golf, 43 is not that old. I plan on playing the seniors when | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
I get to 50, playing competitive full-time golf until I am at least | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
60, so the way I look at it, I have got 17, 18 years to play | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
professional golf. I love what I do, not many people have a better life | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
than me earning vast amount of money playing a game I enjoy. And | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
not bad at it, some would say. When you hear the noise from the | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Paul Lawrie boys will be coming down the road | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
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Finally, no list of top Scots performance would be complete | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
without Sir Chris Hoy. His professionalism and work ethic | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
powered him into the top time after time. A multiple world and Olympic | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
champion, his dream was to triumph at London 2012, but back at the | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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beginning of the year nothing was You're working very hard, producing | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
lactic acid and it burns and stings in your legs. Then you do it again | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
and you rest and do it again. Every time it is feeling worse and worse | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
before you even start the effort. Your legs just shut down and you | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
almost grind to a halt then it gets worse and you are rolling about the | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
floor in the foetal position, sometimes you are physically sick, | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
it is not very pretty. But it's part of the training. It is part of | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
what you have to do to get to the top. Hours, days, weeks and months | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
of brutal training to achieve this, his dream of walking out to compete | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
in his fourth Olympic Games. In March he told us he wanted to be | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
selected in three events and wining gold was not guaranteed. I could be | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
better then I was in Beijing but come away with no medals. The | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
standard could raise. What happens with your rivals, you have got no | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
control, but what you do yourself, you have control over. I aim to be | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
better then I was and if I win three gold medals with that | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
performance, that is fantastic. If you don't you have got to shake the | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
guy's hand and say well done if not. He was selected for two events in | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
London 2012, missing out on the kilometre sprint. Here comes Chris | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
Hoy. At 36 success on the track would only be tougher than ever | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
before. Gold medal for Great Britain, a new world record, 42.6, | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
I don't believe what I am seeing here, they are going quicker and | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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quicker and Great Britain have won the gold for the team sprint. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Back in his hometown of Edinburgh the gold painted postbox and stamp | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
printed in his honour. Back on track, the pressure was on in the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
keirin, his only chance for an individual gold, in a notoriously | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
unpredictable event. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy gets the gold | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
medal here in the keirin, his sixth gold medal, he becomes the greatest | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
achiever ever, the greatest British Olympian. His tally, six gold | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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medals, one silver. He is the Olympic champion. The sixth of his | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
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career overtaking the five of Sir Steve Redgrave. He will always be | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
the biggest, no matter how many medals anybody went, he won five | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
consecutive gold medals, that is different to winning multiple gold | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
medals. He is a marvellous achiever, very down-to-earth, and he has got | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
time for everybody. That is as important as his gold medals, he is | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
just a nice bloke. After the Games his life literally | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
skyrocketed with honours and rewards. | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
It was the most incredible experience. Very hard to put into | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
words what it feels like when you are up there, started the whole | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
flight with a performance takeoff which means you go flat out there | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
and vertical and climb and climb which is a big difference to the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
flights I am used to travelling round the world competing. Feet | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
back firmly on the ground he received a hero's welcome in | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Edinburgh and freedom of the city. Murrayfield was the venue. Onto the | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
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pitch now comes a man with more goals than Mr T, Chris Hoy. -- gold. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
If ever was a man to inspire Scotland it is this man. Inspiring | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
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Well, that is the final lineup and what a choice to make. We asked our | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
panel to make their choice. Will their choice be the same as | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
yours? Standby for the result. In third place, it is Olympic gold | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
medallist in rowing, Katherine Grainger. In second place, | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
Grainger. In second place, Britain's most successful Olympian | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Sir Chris Hoy. Which means the Sport Nation Sports Person for 2012 | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
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is Olympic gold medallist and US Our behalf of BBC Scotland I'd like | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
to present you with the Sport Nation Sports Person Of The Year | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
Award 2012. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you very | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
much, it's been a great year for Scottish sport, it's been the best | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
year of my career, so thank you very much, very proud. | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
Well done to Andy Murray, the winner in this incredible sporting | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
year and we will be back in late January with the Sport Nation rugby | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
special. John will be looking ahead to | :28:52. | :28:55. |