It's that time of year - awards time!
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's not just white
it’s white with white brocade. I have no idea where he could find such a suit, or why.
by Katiek on Dec 15, 2008 11:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I meant to add
you can really see the brocade in this pic
grumble, grumble, no edit function, grumble grumble
by Katiek on Dec 15, 2008 11:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He looks a little like the prince in a pantomime
by Albertina on Dec 16, 2008 4:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ooooooh yes he does!
Right, this stops now! ;-)
by Albertina on Dec 16, 2008 10:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh wow. He is so gorgeous. No, I am not kidding.
http://www.sportsawards.ch/img/photos/large/photo_355.jpg
I love that suit. And his wife looks fabulous also.
by ZoeRochelle on Dec 18, 2008 2:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I love Fabian
But i wouldn’t have let him out the door in that suit :-)
And his wife is pretty… But i wouldn’t be his wife either!!!!!!!!
Every photo i’ve seen of his wife she is always wearing white..
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 18, 2008 5:12 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ahh, that is a cute picture.
Is that Roger Federer’s mum on the right?
by Albertina on Dec 18, 2008 8:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
seen something like that before, I mean.
No, this isn’t tony
by JFS_PGH on Dec 15, 2008 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
His mother, thats his wife!!!!
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 8:44 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
He's married to his mother?
The Dutch are very progressive.
by Jimbo... on Dec 15, 2008 4:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah I know, the lucky bast*rds!
;)
by plinytheelder on Dec 15, 2008 8:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Don't want to be a partypooper
But Nys is from… Belgium..
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on Dec 16, 2008 12:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Same thing!
LOL, just kidding!
If I just had one more gear, I...
by SpunOut on Dec 16, 2008 1:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey Canadien
Shut up ;)
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
by Frinking on Dec 16, 2008 3:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Getting seriously close
to being the best thread ever…
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris... on Dec 16, 2008 4:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Working on the new job huh?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
by nikki on Dec 16, 2008 5:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If I'm going to be telling Leonard Zinn what to do
then I need to realign my thinking organ
by Jimbo... on Dec 16, 2008 5:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It needs not to be said...
so ROFL!!!!!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
by nikki on Dec 16, 2008 7:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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