Sports Personality of the Year - 10 Contenders Unleashed

SSES · 11-30-2007, 07:12 PM

Three current world champions and three runners-up are on the shortlist, with a total of seven sports represented:

#Joe Calzaghe - Undisputed world super-middleweight boxing champion.

#Lewis Hamilton - World championship runner-up in his rookie Formula One season.

#Ricky Hatton - Fights Floyd Mayweather for WBC world title on eve of show.

#Andy Murray - Broke into the world top 10 despite an injury that ruled him out of Wimbledon.

#Christine Ohuruogu - Returned from one-year ban for missing three drugs tests to land world 400m title in Osaka.

#Paula Radcliffe - Won the New York Marathon just 10 months after giving birth to a baby daughter.

#Jason Robinson - Retired after playing key part in England making the Rugby World Cup final.

#Justin Rose - Captured golf's European Order of Merit title.

#James Toseland - Claimed the World Superbikes Championship for the second time.

#Jonny Wilkinson - Shrugged off injury to help England to Rugby World Cup final.

For the second year running, no footballer has made the list - Northern Ireland's record-breaking striker David Healy and Scotland star James McFadden did not gain enough votes.

Bit better than last year, but Ohuruogu, are you having a laugh, bad enough that the BOC have given her an exemption to compete in the Olympics, but now the bbc are celebrating the success of a drugs cheat. Disgrace.

Calzaghe or Hatton for me.

Gregg Carter · 11-30-2007, 07:15 PM

She's not a drugs cheat. Missing a test not the same as taking drugs. Further tests proved that she wasn't on anything, the testing body have admitted there were flaws with the system that contributed to her missing the tests, so she has been rightly exonerated.

Fairly decent list this time tbh. Flabbergasted at Wilkinson and Murray being included but other than that, can't really find fault with it.