he didn't attend as he thought he wouldn't win
he didn't attend as he thought he wouldn't win
Its about a god damn time he won
Mo Farah the greatest ever athlete GB has produced #onemomile #moknows
tony the tiger wrote:
Its about a god damn time he won
Mo Farah the greatest ever athlete GB has produced #onemomile #moknows
Ha! Star Wars is out and back comes the Phantom Menace.
Any body else sick how Farah's stepdaughter always seems to put herself into things. At meets like Pre and Worlds she is running around posing with the stupid Mo-bot as if she had done something. It was starting to become a pain with Lagat and his son but that seems to have come to an end, when can we finally see and end to this with Mo
Those racist MFers. His name is Mohammed!!! Respect the man. #onemohammedmile!
take a moment wrote:
Any body else sick how Farah's stepdaughter always seems to put herself into things. At meets like Pre and Worlds she is running around posing with the stupid Mo-bot as if she had done something. It was starting to become a pain with Lagat and his son but that seems to have come to an end, when can we finally see and end to this with Mo
Really pleased for Mo, I voted for him but didn't expect him to win. The points were all quite close in the end. Shame the feed went out.
It makes you wonder if these results are fixed, or at least manipulated.
I think the BBC would have been embarrassed if the UK's most successful ever athlete had never won his title.
2017 was nowhere near Mo's best year, but - unless he does fantastic things at the Marathon - would have been his last chance to win this - very famous in the UK - award,
But the whole thing is a joke. For example, the amazing three times winner of the Kona World Championship Iron Man Triathlon, Chrissie Wellington, wasn't ever on the award's ballot sheet.
Athletics fans like to keep it in the family. Look at the results down the years and you'll see that athletics is the only sport that consistently has an athlete near the top-3, despite the relatively small following. So there's always going to be a decent baseline - Mo got 83k votes I think. It's just that the other contenders got much less votes this year.
I remember in 2012 when the editor of a well-known athletics magazine tried to co-ordinate the 'athletics vote' because there was a danger that it would be divided between Ennis and Farah.
Farah's coach Gary Lough seemed to think it was all a "Farking joke"
The Scot wrote:
Really pleased for Mo, I voted for him but didn't expect him to win. The points were all quite close in the end. Shame the feed went out.
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portsea57 wrote:
It makes you wonder if these results are fixed, or at least manipulated.
I think the BBC would have been embarrassed if the UK's most successful ever athlete had never won his title.
2017 was nowhere near Mo's best year, but - unless he does fantastic things at the Marathon - would have been his last chance to win this - very famous in the UK - award,
But the whole thing is a joke. For example, the amazing three times winner of the Kona World Championship Iron Man Triathlon, Chrissie Wellington, wasn't ever on the award's ballot sheet.
The shortlist is decided by what looks to be a fairly representative panel, 6 men, 6 women, across a range of sports and media so it is what it is.
I'd be v surprised if anything was manipulated after that scandal about phone votes a BBC a few years ago. We can't even vote for goal of the month on MOTD any more!
"Representatives from BBC Sport: Barbara Slater (director, BBC Sport), Philip Bernie (head of TV sport) and Carl Doran (executive editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year)
Representative from BBC Radio 5 live: Eleanor Oldroyd
Broadcaster and former Olympian: Darren Campbell
Broadcaster and former Paralympian: Danny Crates
Broadcaster and former rugby union player: Maggie Alphonsi
Broadcaster: Colin Murray
Representative from sports industry: Dame Katherine Grainger
Newspapers: Dominic Hart (Mirror/Sunday People), Alyson Rudd (The Times), Laura Williamson (Daily Mail)"