BBC Sports Personality of the Year

AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.

" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."

Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html

Thanks for backing me up with the stats, also bear in mind he has been doing this for 20+ years, incredible!
An Athlete may train hard, but how long is their shelf life? 10 years maybe? Then you can retire and do as you like.
To sacrafice what McCoy has for so long is nothing short of incredible, and just look at how many winners he has rode and how many champion jockey titles he has accumulated. Also you have to remember he can ride as many as 7 horses a day and up to 7 different venues and he may do this every day of the week!

(20-12-2010 07:33 )TDK2008 Wrote:  Fully agree with you mate. Nice to see no footballers in the running for SPOTY with the shitty World Cup performance of our national side. Worthy top three (surprised but happy Taylor cracked it) and for those talking about Ennis, pretty sure she takes it in 2012. Remember it's two years running she's in the top three. She's so likeable and not far from my neck of the woods as well.

kluft v ennis would have been the dream olympic battle in the heptathlon maybe thats why kluft moved from that to long jump because she saw ennis coming.

i hope cavendish win the sprint jersey in tour de france in 2011 if he did and win more stages he should be the bbc spoty.

how did haye get nominated because he fought against to bums in boxing one was and will always be a fruad

(20-12-2010 12:23 )mogga Wrote:  

(20-12-2010 11:39 )mrwotzup Wrote:  AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.

" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."

Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html

Thanks for backing me up with the stats, also bear in mind he has been doing this for 20+ years, incredible!
An Athlete may train hard, but how long is their shelf life? 10 years maybe? Then you can retire and do as you like.
To sacrafice what McCoy has for so long is nothing short of incredible, and just look at how many winners he has rode and how many champion jockey titles he has accumulated. Also you have to remember he can ride as many as 7 horses a day and up to 7 different venues and he may do this every day of the week!

Your making him sound like some sort of hero,he does all that because he loves being a Jockey,i dont and never have followed horse racing but good luck to him,im sure he is well rewarded.

Im sure he could retire if he wanted to but he chooses not to

I wanted Amy Williams to win for the simple reason that any medal Great Britain manages at the Winter Olympics is a wondrous feat indeed.

Having said that I always feel that SPOTY's use of the word 'personality' is a bit of a misnomer as THe large majority of Sportsmen and women are largely so driven as to have a 'personailty' as well is usually too much.There are exceptions but for every Daley Thompson and Ian Bothanm there is always a Steve Redgrave and Jonny Wilkinson.The former are entertaining interesting people with phenomenal talents,the latter are driven,focussed machines who leave their personalitoes at the door while possessing the aforementioned phenomenal talents.

Nice to see AP winning this year with nearly twice as many votes, 293,152 as last year's winner Ryan Giggs 151,842.

(20-12-2010 11:39 )mrwotzup Wrote:  AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.

" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."

Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html

That's amazing particularly the weight loss. Unreal.

I'm glad Mcoy won too, won me a packet on my first ever year betting on the Grand National. Sir, I salute you, lol

2012 will be an interesting year for bbc spoty. ennis possible olympic champion, wiggins possible tour de france winner (same for 2011), anyone from the british swimming squad if they win multiple medals like addlington,

If anyone is going to win it in 2011 then I reckon Rory Mcilroy is the def hot favourite. i don't think anyone could beat him if he gets a good round at the Open and wins that too.

He will take some stopping.