Sports Personality of the Year has become contrived and predictable and its Matt Fitzpatrick snub is an insult ✒️ Analysis by GARSIDEK via iPaperSport
Three years earlier Mark Cavendish took the honours after combining cycling’s World Road Championship crown with four stage wins at the Tour de France. Cavendish did not win the Tour, he won four stages. Yes I know the value of that achievement, a resounding success for a sprinter, but not the order of magnitude reached by the winner of the yellow jersey.
Jake Wightman sprung a surprise late in his career to win 1,500 gold at the World Championships, and Eve Muirhead skippered Britain to a dramatic curling gold at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Great achievements both but more substantial than Fitzpatrick’s? Muirhead, a keen golfer, would probably concede the point. If you really want to win this thing, then take up athletics, a sport that has thrown up 18 winners. Formula One is fecund territory too with eight, pipping tennis by one.
There have been more ice skaters than golfers in the winner’s chair. Lyle, Ian Woosnam, Paul Lawrie, Graeme McDowell, Justin Rose, who almost won The Open as a 17-year-old, McIlroy, Darren Clarke and now Fitzpatrick, major winners all but none good enough for
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