Chris Hoy gets sports personality of the year

I'm slightly off topic on this one, and I'm all for congratulating chris hoy on becoming sports personality of the year, but is it just me or does everyone seem to forget that stephen roche won the tour de france, the vuelta, the giro and was world road race champion all in one year '87? i think. I know he didn't win sports personality of the year at the time, but he should have done..
just my tuppence,
excuse me I'll get me coat..

Did the award exist in '87?

boast: I rode with him to Paris this year :)

yes, i don't know if they did it back then, and if they did, it wasn't the big deal it is now.

plus, he's Irish. they don't count.

Despite the existence of a separate "Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award", non-British nationals are not exempt from the main prize. For example Italian jockey Frankie Dettori finished in third place in the voting in 1996. Irishman Barry McGuigan won the Award in 1985 but he held joint Irish-British nationality and had held a British professional boxing title. Both of these men made much of their careers in the UK. Of the fifty-five awards given since 1954, forty-four of them have been to Englishmen/women, four to Scots, three to Welsh people, and two to Irish people.

In 1987, Fatima Whitbread came 1st, followed by Steve Davis (!!) and Ian Woosnam. Martina Navratilova won the Overseas award. Jaques Anquetil won it in 1963!

And of course we know that dear old Tommy Simpson won the main award in 1965.

That Ben Ainslie, though. He's one hell of a sailor.

I'm slightly off topic on this one, and I'm all for congratulating chris hoy on becoming sports personality of the year, but is it just me or does everyone seem to forget that stephen roche won the tour de france, the vuelta, the giro and was world road race champion all in one year '87? i think. I know he didn't win sports personality of the year at the time, but he should have done..
just my tuppence,
excuse me I'll get me coat..

Roche never won the Vuelta. No-one, not even Eddy Merckx, has won the Vuelta, the Giro and the Tour in the same year. Only Merckx and Roche have won the Giro, the Tour and the Worlds in one season.

Did the award exist in '87?

boast: I rode with him to Paris this year :)

Yep since 1954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton got 2nd in 67

Hamilton looks cheesed off...

Look to his left, and there may appear a reason for a rather sour look.

No, its not Hoy.

I'm slightly off topic on this one, and I'm all for congratulating chris hoy on becoming sports personality of the year, but is it just me or does everyone seem to forget that stephen roche won the tour de france, the vuelta, the giro and was world road race champion all in one year '87? i think. I know he didn't win sports personality of the year at the time, but he should have done..
just my tuppence,
excuse me I'll get me coat..

I seem to recall Stephen Roche was a johnny foreigner and as such disqualified from being a personality other than the johnny foreigner sports personality which is not voted on by the public but given to people like Bolt. After all no Brit has ever won a major tour.

Look to his left, and there may appear a reason for a rather sour look.

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well I thought Lewis Hamilton looked genuinely happy for Chris, but Rebecca Adlington had that look of trying to hide disappointment about her. She really didn't look that happy to go up for second place.
Apparently she was the tabloid favorite and some people believe the hype don't they?

Chris was the man for the job, at the end of the day. I don't think anyone would begrudge him that, despite the achievements of the others

In 1987, Fatima Whitbread came 1st, followed by Steve Davis (!!) and Ian Woosnam. Martina Navratilova won the Overseas award. Jaques Anquetil won it in 1963!

My mate Chris used to go out with Fatima Whitbread when they were teenagers. Imagine how we don't take the p*ss.