Jake Wightman loses out at BBC Sports Personality Of The Year award

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In Welsh the vowels are a e i o u w y

So no.

But can you say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in an authentic Anglesey accent?

No because I am from South Wales and the natives up there roll their eyes at the BS made up tourist pleaser placename.

OP. I pointed out almost two weeks ago the Wightman didn't even win Scottish Sportsperson of the year award, losing out to some Paralympian.

If he didn't win that, of course he didn't win this.

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Simpsons, Wightman & Muir among top Scots awards

Neil and Andrew Simpson are named Scottish Sportsperson of the Year, with Jake Wightman, Laura Muir and Eilish McColgan also receiving awards.

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Rubbish. BBC sportsperson of the year should definitely have been Antonio Brown.

it doesn't help that Wightman has zero personality

Well at least tourists want to go to North Wales. South Wales is a sh!ttole.

I’m huge Arsenal women’s team fan so I’m biased toward Beth Mead, but she did win a major competition for England.

That’s not to say Jake or anyone else didn’t deserve it.

I’m really at a loss in general who is a great sports personality in Britain these days. The award seems long in the tooth.

A lot of talks in this site about your anglo saxons.

You even elevate them to the rank of prophets.

But it's not the people that we talk the most, are those that win.

Small biased world.

England womens football winning the Euros was the biggest sporting "moment" of the year in the UK. Won, at Wembley, 90,000 people in attendance. Beth Mead also has a personality. 23 million people watched it live also (out of a UK population of 70 million).

So this was an absolute no brainer, the favourite won. End of.

Oh, and she has a personality.

Its womens football though. Who even watches that and why? How much were the tickets? I assume heavily discounted or free for 90000 to get in.

Just googled it, tickets started at £5 lol. Cant even buy a sandwich for that.

How do you think the interest in that final compares to the interest in Wightman winning the 1500 in Eugene, bearing in mind there was a peak viewership of 17.4 million in the UK for the final?

Im not disputing the numbers, i believe 90000 turned up. Im not quite sure why or what for, even if it was very cheap entrance.

curling ain't a sport

I can see that, there is no doubt women's football is big in the UK now, thanks a lot to the BBC pushing it so much.

The curling guy coming 3rd ahead of Wightman and Ronnie is the joke. The public vote aspect is very suspect. It doesn't seem possible that the curling guy could get more votes than Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ronnie should have got more votes than the entire number of people who have even heard of the curling guy.

It wouldn't have helped that Wightman has more of a London accent than a Scottish one. I was born and raised in England but I have more of a Scottish accent than him due to my Glaswegian mother.

Are you talking about the LetsRun prophet who predicted that a titan would fall? He was correct - Rudisha fell in the plane crash, and the pilot has been banned from flying again for life.