It's that time of year - awards time!

by Gemma on Dec 14, 2008 4:39 PM EST Comment 55 comments

Following on the heels of last week's Swiss Sportsperson of the Year ceremony, which saw a dazzlingly dressed Fabian Cancellara beat two-time winner Roger Federer to the title, tonight we had the Sports Personality of the Year Award (or SPOTY as it's known) here in the UK and what a night it was for cycling!!

The GB Olympic Cycling team got the Team of the Year award, their main coach David Brailsford won the Coach of the Year award and they also won the big award with the Sports Personality of the Year Award going to Chris Hoy (and 3 other cyclists made the final 10 list which was brilliant)

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Apparently Sven Nys,

just won Belgium Sportsperson of the year !!!!!!

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 14, 2008 4:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Oh dear

another one Devolder didn’t win. Hope he wasn’t mad about this one too :)

by Gemma on Dec 15, 2008 5:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And Sui Juris

just won his block’s Cyclist of the Year Award!

(the 80 year old guy two doors down just broke his hip, so my biggest threat was sidelined)

by Sui Juris on Dec 14, 2008 6:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Did you take him to the curb?

Just asking.

by Jimbo... on Dec 15, 2008 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

look

I didn’t break any rules. I held my line. Not my fault we were entering a traffic circle and he got confused.

by Sui Juris on Dec 15, 2008 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever

You doodsmaked an 80 year old… What kind of a monster are you?

by Jimbo... on Dec 15, 2008 4:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

THE NUMBER ONE CYCLIST (MONSTER) ON MY BLOCK

That’s what kind.

by Sui Juris on Dec 15, 2008 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

did you get a trophy?

by lyne on Dec 15, 2008 5:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe he got the guys teeth?

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 15, 2008 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

l'ouch

;-)

by gavia on Dec 15, 2008 6:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He wears his dentures on a string

around his evil neck

by Jimbo... on Dec 15, 2008 7:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just how I picture D.C. lawyers

Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets

by Jens on Dec 16, 2008 2:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's great.

I never thought I’d see the day when the British public would vote for a cyclist in this way! Perhaps they’ll learn to love road cycling at some point too….

by Albertina on Dec 15, 2008 5:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I know

it’s wonderful isn’t it!

by Gemma on Dec 15, 2008 5:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

OK here is Sven Nys at the awards..

Don’t know what to say, what is with the shirt…..

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 15, 2008 7:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Snort. Oh my word.

He looks like a….er…..no, I’ve never seen one of those before.

by Albertina on Dec 15, 2008 8:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

His mother’s not looking the mae west either.

pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway

by fmk on Dec 15, 2008 8:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

She seems to have a rabbit in her handbag

by Jimbo... on Dec 15, 2008 4:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

and a stoat around her neck

by Albertina on Dec 15, 2008 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

quite a remarkable combination

all the way around. that dress is really not doing it for me.

by gavia on Dec 15, 2008 6:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

oh my...

well, it looks better on him than it would on me. By the way, does anyone have a photo, or a link to one, of the dazzlingly-dressed Cancellara? (Apologies if it was posted here and I missed it.)

by plinytheelder on Dec 15, 2008 12:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Here you go...

this is a link to the picture gallery from the official site

http://www.sportsawards.ch/de/multimedia/index.php

As the article on the Saxobank team site says, you know Cancellara isn’t going to be a wallflower at something like this and the white suit certainly meant he stood out, bless him. I love his sense of humour about the whole thing :)

by Gemma on Dec 15, 2008 5:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

thank heavens

he didn’t try to wear white at the Giro route presentation. He’d never have fit in.

by Katiek on Dec 15, 2008 7:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

HOLY CRAP!

I think I like Nys’s better! Seriously, I just don’t like the white suits. Maybe I’m just jealous of people who can wear white. ;) Thanks for the link!

by plinytheelder on Dec 15, 2008 8:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs