At 21 Alistair Brownlee might have won the World title and dominated many of the major triathlon events throughout 2009 but it wasn’t enough to even get him shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. I have nothing against Ryan Giggs, he is a superb player and deserves recognition after such a long and illustrious career with one of the most successful teams in the world, but to even make the top 10 as an individual was surely the most that a team sport player could (or should) achieve. But then that does not take into account the incredible bias in the media towards all things football related and in particular the English Premiership. Little wonder then that a World Champion from a sport the BBC only covers during the Olympics would not get a look in.
The influential sports website www.insidethegames.biz ran a poll to see who should win, Giggs scored just 3.3% of the votes compared to 66% for Brownlee. I guess the real sports enthusiasts know the magnitude of his performance, perhaps by 2012 the public will know him too …
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