Sports Personality of the Year 2011 top 10: Amir Khan

Riders don't enter the races as individuals, they enter as a team. The team will usually have 1 or 2 main guys who the whole team is pulling for. Basically he is either the guy who can win the grand tours, like a lance Armstrong or a guy who can win stages and win Sprint jerseys and stage races like mark cavendish.
In cavendishs case his whole team is working all day to keep him sheltered from the wind, giving him water, bringing him back to the peleton if he falls behind and then finally when it comes to a Sprint finish its their job to position him in the perfect position for the very final 100 or 200m Sprint to the line. They do this by taking turns on the front of the bunch busting their balls to keep the speed up then one by one they drop off and at the last moment release cav for the Sprint to the line. Which he usually wins. His HTC team from last year were awesome at it and is a very spectacular sporting spectacle when u know what ur looking at.

 

Thing is though, cycling is massive in a lot of countries, not so much in the UK, but he is a superstar and the very best at what he does. With the Tour de France, it's broken down into smaller competitions. 'the king of the mountains' 'time trialist's and 'sprints' the final yellow jersey winner is an all rounder who may win none of the sprints or mountain stages etc.

 

Cavendish sounds impressive to be fair. His bird is a stunner too... Where have I seen her before???

 

But I know the names of Miguel Indurain, Lemond, Merx, Armstrong etc though... In a few years you can show me a photo of Cavendish and I will have forgotten who he was. Winning the tour de france multiple times will get you crossover recognition if you're a road cyclist. Regardless of what die hards think, the general public will think more of him if he won the whole tour.

 

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How many stages are there and how many eefing different coloured jerseys? lol.

If there's so many stages, you're telling me that this guy only wins one? that's ****!

That's like a guy winning and being the best in one event of the decathlon and being shite at the rest. This guy is no better than Dean Macey (sorry cycling fans).

 

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don't begrudge cavendish.

though mo farah deserved it.

winning 5000m gold and 10,000m silver.

and a very good year on the circuit.

 

Usually around 22.

There are flat stages for the sprinters and mountain stages for the climbers.

Each day the time you finish in gets added to the next day and so on.

Cav wins lots of single days but drops 30mins+ on the mountain stages so comes no where overall.

 

It's even worse then i thought, mate. Not even Dean Macey standard (my apologies to Deano). He's the guy that use to beat Daley Thompson at the 100m and then come last overall.

 

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Not really. There are two main jerseys. The yellow for overall time and the green for the sprinters. He won 5 stages this year out of 21 I think and 6 last year. Plus the World Championships, not bad going.

 

I knew you'd like that one. :good

 

Breakdown of the vote:

Mark Cavendish 169,152 (49.47%)

Darren Clarke 42,188 (12.34%)

Mo Farah 29,780 (8.71%)

Luke Donald 23,854 (6.98%)

Andy Murray 18,754 (5.48%)

Andrew Strauss 17,994 (5.26%)

Alastair Cook 13,038 (3.81%)

Rory McIlroy 11,915 (3.48%)

Dai Greene 9,022 (2.64%)

Amir Khan 6,262 (1.83%)


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BBC sports awards = just a bull**** event.

votings are useless, the BBC just give it to whoever they want, usually the guy whos **** unknown sport appears on their station.

ps - messi 1 of the worlds greatest footballer in anybodys lifetime didnt get the award cus that tennis player is always on bbc.

 

did they show froch or feature him ?

i think sports declining ...lets be honest uk has **** sportsmen.
the 3 winners , if they walk down a street no1 would know who they are.
any premier leauge footballer would be a different story.