Congratulations; BBC Sports Personality of 2018.
G top guy, well deserved award.
Keith
Should have gone to Lewis Hamilton
Cyclist with three world titles beats F1 driver with five world titles. Can’t help wondering if it’s Anglo-Saxon bias of the voting public.
At least Billy Monger got the Helen Rollason award. He’s been through a lot and come out fighting. One of the nicest likeable young men too. Well deserved.
If he was made to pedal the car maybe
Bit of a lazy comment. Geraint is a Celtic name, not Anglo Saxon. Hamilton came second, Kane (who at one time looked and sounded like a 1940s spiv) came third.
Did they ever rescind Pistorius’ award? I think Monger’s award was pre-announced. Had some challenges, sure, but I note some previous award winners had to die to get that.
In the end, in a year’s time, this will be a pub quiz question that people will struggle to answer.
The short list were all worthy in their own fields. Not sure I agree with the limited ‘on-the-night’ vote where the winner is dependent on who happens to be watching.
The awards are wrongly named. Very seldom is the top award given to a “Personality”, and last night was no exception.
Don’t get me wrong. I admire Geraint Thomas for his achievements but personality, I think not. He stood on stage not knowing what to say.
Paul G
Hear hear !
Or even Lewis Hamilton.
If you follow cycling you probably know that Thomas is one of the riders that journalists go to when they want an interesting comment. It might be a thoughtful insight, it might be a wisecrack, but Geraint Thomas is always genuine and captivating. Just because he ‘stood on stage not knowing what to say’ for the amusement of SPOTY viewers is no reason to dismiss him as a worthy winner.
Personally i think Lewis Hamilton is a horrendous ambassador for F1 as a sport and britain as a whole
yes he is a good driver but thats where it ends
when he loses its everybody elses fault and he acts like a spoilt brat
he is a very sore loser and very ungracious And certainly didn’t deserve to win Personality of the year , because he severly lacks a good personality.
agreed…blaming everybody “in race”…just get on with it and do your job, he is paid enough…
What a mistake to make
Cyclist beats 4 times TDF winner who is also his team mate to beat spoilt brat F1 driver who is in the best car on the grid and pretty much only has to turn up to win, blames everyone else when he doesn’t win and lives in Monaco so he doesn’t have to pay tax.
So - presumably you believe Vettel is a perfect angel?
Lewis get’s dissapointed when the team let’s him down, but he’s unable to comment, you don’t kick the source of the gravy in the teeth.- Would you? Name any driver in the current fold, who do you think is a perfect gentleman? Do they win races? Like football, Gentlemen do not win football matches or footraces either.
Lewis displays his true value in that vein,on the track - ever see him knock someone off? He’s one of the cleanest drivers ever in F1, almost equal to the late (and sorely missed) Jim Grant.
I’ve often heard him blame himself.
And Thomas also lives in Monaco. I think you mean to that they do this so that Hamilton and Thomas can reduce their tax bills.
Lewis Hamilton lives in Monaco, and his detractors say the only reason is fiscal. But when Thomas lives in Monaco, its because it is sunny
Double standards.
And he spends a lot of his spare time undertaking charitable work. I think he’s basically a decent guy, doing his best to act within his faith. I suspect where he will be different from other past racing drivers, is that when he is done with F1, he will just walk away from it, and pursue his other interests.
When Lewis crosses the line in first place he thanks the team every time without fail. By the time the second placed driver crosses the line he has usually also thanked everyone back at the factory and told them all he couldn’t have done it without them. He also regularly visits the factory to meet everyone involved. They win or lose as a team. If the team screw up and lose him places or races it’s understandable that his radio messages sound a bit annoyed.
Don’t forget that his dad took extra jobs to get the money together to take him karting. Not like a certain other driver who’s multimillionaire father bought him a seat. Not a great seat so now he’s bought him a team. Doubt if he will be much better there. You can’t buy talent.
Quite a few sportsmen and businessmen live in Monaco and other tax havens. Yes it’s mainly to minimise the tax they pay. If anyone who criticises them has ever put money in an ISA or brought home duty free tobacco, alcohol or perfume after a holiday then those are just other ways of legally and legitimately minimising tax paid.
which looks like they are numbered (Duty free that is)