Dec 14 2008
British Sports Personality Of The Year - Chris Hoy!
Every Brit that watched the Beijing Olympics in 2008 was bursting with pride. We won so many events and brought home so many medals, bronze, silver and gold, that everyone felt an insane sense of disbelief. Nobody even expected to perform well let alone get as many medals as we did! As a result, it was only right that an Olympian won the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year Award.
That Olympian was Chris Hoy, a triple gold medal winner in Beijing. In effect, Chris Hoy was the star of the amazing cycling team, although all members deserve a mention because they absolutely dominated the track and won the Team Of The Year at the awards ceremony tonight. With only one member of the team going home without a medal, I think it’s fair to say that everybody else struggled to get noticed there, including the French team that promised to thrash the British boys and girls. Never was a whole team made to eat its words in such a comprehensive way!
Chris Hoy beat F1 champion Lewis Hamilton into second place and double gold medallist swimmer Rebecca Adlington into third. Both Hamilton and Adlington deserved to be standing there but Chris Hoy undoubtedly deserved to win after all his hard work over the yeas. Lewis Hamilton and Rebecca Adlington are young enough to win the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year in the future but Hoy, who is in his thirties now, many not get the chance again.
Well done Chris, you deserve it!
