Bradley Wiggins

[Dave Cooper please]

You can't compare sports so I'm not going to, but what Wiggo has achieved in just a month is absolutely phenomenal.
Just to win the Tour de France would be enough to place him right amongst the greatest British Sportsmen ever, but then to go on a week later and attempt to help a team-mate win an Olympic medal and then only days later absolutely blow a top-class field apart in a discipline he has only really stepped up to in the last year or so....you run out of superlatives to explain just how amazing that is.

[PaulWinch again]

He should definitely be knighted.

[Somniloquism]

Great sportsman but I still maintain that the Tour de France is essentially a team event, whereas yesterday's time trial individual. 

The TDF is a team event in the fact the team will help the lead rider, but that person also has to be able to maintain a high level over mutiple terrain types otherwise all the teams efforts won't help them at all. But in the individual Time trials during the Tour, as with yesterday, he has shown that he can do it when it matters.

[Risso]

You can't compare sports so I'm not going to, but what Wiggo has achieved in just a month is absolutely phenomenal.
Just to win the Tour de France would be enough to place him right amongst the greatest British Sportsmen ever, but then to go on a week later and attempt to help a team-mate win an Olympic medal and then only days later absolutely blow a top-class field apart in a discipline he has only really stepped up to in the last year or so....you run out of superlatives to explain just how amazing that is.

Well said Dave, absolutely spot on.  Cyclists to be SPOTY two years running.

[nigel]

Regarding SPOTY, don't forget the golden girls.
Only being rowing just over 4 years, and 4 years later Olympic gold.

Yes, Bradley will/should win, with Heather and Helen winning the team of the year.

[Chris Jameson]

Bradley Wiggins is the ace face.

[Somniloquism]

Regarding SPOTY, don't forget the golden girls.
Only being rowing just over 4 years, and 4 years later Olympic gold.

Yes, Bradley will/should win, with Heather and Helen winning the team of the year.

I do fell sorry for them. The news last night was 5 mins of Wiggo winning the gold with almost an aside of "By the way, the girls won one as well."

[Eckybloke]

Bradley is chuffing brilliant.

[maidstonevillain]

Good for him and all that but definitely doesn't deserve a knighthood. No, you can't give one out for that. You may be thinking of an OBE or MBE.

And isn't Steve Redgrave our best sportsman by a mile?

No.

[Pete3206]

Bradley Wiggins comments on the cynics:

He said: “They are just fucking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that.

"It justifies their bone idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives.

“It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that shit, rather than get off their arses in their own lives and apply themselves, work hard and achieve something.”

You'll do for me mate. 

[nigel]

Bradley Wiggins comments on the cynics:

He said: “They are just fucking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that.

"It justifies their bone idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives.

“It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that shit, rather than get off their arses in their own lives and apply themselves, work hard and achieve something.”

You'll do for me mate. 

Spot on Bradley.
Knight him on that quote alone 

[johnboy]

Great sportsman but I still maintain that the Tour de France is essentially a team event, whereas yesterday's time trial individual. 

The TDF is a team event in the fact the team will help the lead rider, but that person also has to be able to maintain a high level over mutiple terrain types otherwise all the teams efforts won't help them at all. But in the individual Time trials during the Tour, as with yesterday, he has shown that he can do it when it matters.

For the Tour alone, Bradley deserves everything that is coming his way, not only that, he loves Lambretta's, only thing wrong is that he is a "'The Mighty Reds YNWA'" fan.
As far as knighthood goes, I thin first shout should go to David Brailsford, the person responsible for the promotion of British Cycling.
Almost forgot UTV
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[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

A very British sporting hero.

[The Left Side]

Sports Personality of the Year - easy

[Nev]

He's done OK but he's no Beckham.