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Why are we trying to judge sports people by their personality?
I'm pretty sure they meant meaning 2 of personality when they came up with the name of the show, using 'personality' to distinguish between the sporting feats embodied in one person and the sports performance of the year or sports team of the year. They didn't mean to make it a judgement of morals or temperament, simply a judgement of which single human being best embodies sporting prowess in that year. It has become corrupted by a the total dominance of the first meaning in common discourse and an increasing public obsession with judging people for what they think rather than what they do.
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The_Seldom_Killer
I can't quite get my head around this. Why are we trying to judge sports people by their personality? For obvious reasons, its not exactly their greatest quality.
Mind you, on that basis, the obvious choice for me would be Froome. Afterall, he did manage to win the toughest professional sporting event while literally being pissed on. None of the other nominees had to put up with that kind of nonsense. I know he's hardly TV/internet/social media gold but I can't bring myself to jump on the "I hate Froome" bandwagon.