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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021 – live updates!



 BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021 – live updates!

Emma Raducanu is huge top choice on six-man waitlist

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Emma Raducanu is relied upon to beat Tom Daley, Tyson Fury, Adam Peaty, Sarah Story and Raheem Sterling to the fundamental honor this evening.

 Emma Raducanu is relied upon to beat Tom Daley, Tyson Fury, Adam Peaty, Sarah Story and Raheem Sterling to the fundamental honor this evening. Photo: Zac Goodwin/PA

Simon Burnton


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Sun 19 Dec 2021 19.01 GMTFirst distributed on Sun 19 Dec 2021 18.23 GMT

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Adam Peaty is, in any case, present face to face. He stops for a moment to talk with Gary Lineker and Gabby Logan, and exceptionally noteworthy he is as well. Here he is on lockdown:


Presumably perhaps the hardest snapshot of my life, which is the reason I get enthusiastic seeing minutes like [his Olympics success]. Getting to those path ropes was practically shutting a section. The venture of time, love, energy, sport takes everything from you and I give everything. It was so intense, so extreme.


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With no in-studio crowd, various sportspeople are practically going to on a major Zoom-style screen thing. It's not great, but rather it's superior to nothing.


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Six minutes, on schedule for another video montage. This current one's an Olympic extraordinary.


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The function has authoritatively started, as it will (likely) end - with a lethargic movement video montage. A significant decent one, I should concede.


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Some afternoon perusing:


The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year grants 2021

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The Emma Raducanu of the Year grant isn't the main honor on offer this evening. This evening's different honors are:


Youthful Emma Raducanu of the Year

Helen Rollason grant

Unrecognized Yet truly great individual

Lifetime Achievement (Simone Biles is getting this one)

World Sport Star of the Year (waitlist: Saul Alvarez, Rachael Blackmore, Tom Brady, Novak Djokovic, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Max Verstappen)

Group of the Year

Mentor of the Year

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We kid, clearly. There are different competitors for the Emma Raducanu of the Year grant, and they are:


Tom Daley

Tom Daley with his Olympic gold award.

 Tom Daley with his Olympic gold award. Photo: Adam Davy/PA

Tom Daley is assigned for totally Raducanuing the synchronized 10m stage jumping, close by Matty Lee, at the Tokyo Olympics, prior to shedding hot, pungent bittersweet tears bliss at the decoration function. And furthermore for sewing.


Tears on Tokyo platform reflect Tom Daley's long walk to Olympic wonder

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Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury handles a punch

 Tyson Fury handles a right punch on Deontay Wilder's jaw during their heavyweight bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in October. Photo: James Atoa/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

Tyson Fury Raducanued the WBC heavyweight title in Las Vegas in October by battling Deontay Wilder for the third time and beating him for the second, twice scrambling off the material prior to dropping his rival in the eleventh round.


Tyson Fury beats Deontay Wilder in record-breaking exemplary to hold WBC heavyweight title

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Adam Peaty

Adam Peaty at the Tokyo Olympics

 Adam Peaty while heading to one more triumph in the 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: Adam Davy/PA

Adam Peaty defeated a dubious mustache to win two gold decorations and a reward silver at the Tokyo Olympics, proceeding with his crazy mastery of the 100m breaststroke all the while.


Adam Peaty: 'It's a battle in the pool. That is the point at which I feel I'm a divine being'

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Raheem Sterling

Raheem Sterling at Euro 2020

 Harry Kane of England celebrates with Raheem Sterling in the wake of scoring their side's third objective during the Euro 2020 quarter-last against Ukraine. Photo: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images

Raheem Sterling was one of England's exceptional players as they arrived at the last of 2021's Euro 2020, scoring three objectives simultaneously, before the group lost on punishments to Italy at Wembley.


 Raheem Sterling has been England's flash and is the man Denmark should fear

Karen Carney

Karen Carney

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Sarah Story

England's Sarah Story at the Tokyo Paralymics

 Gold medallist Britain's Sarah Story celebrates in the wake of winning the ladies' cycling street individual C5 time preliminary during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

Story extended her unbelievably outsized assortment of Paralympic gold awards to 17 - seventeen - with one more three in Tokyo, and took her general decoration include to 28 all the while.


Sarah Story: the one-lady gold decoration plant still in full creation

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Are any of them more meriting the honor than Emma Raducanu? Time alone will tell!


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Hi world!

Good tidings and welcome to the Guardian's live inclusion of the BBC Emma Raducanu of the Year grants! Who might actually win this fervently challenged prize? We should take a gander at the waitlist:


Emma Raducanu of the Year competitor No1: Emma Raducanu

Emma Raducanu with the US Open prize

 Emma Raducanu celebrates with the prize subsequent to overcoming Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada in the 2021 US Open last. Photo: Elsa/Getty Images

Emma Raducanu turned into the main British lady to win a huge homerun title since Virginia Wade in 1977, and the primary qualifier, when she won the US Open in absurdly tasteful style in September.


Along these lines, there's your full rundown of competitors for the evening's principle prize. Who might actually win? Try not to miss the following two or three hours of ensured vulnerability and show!


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BBC Sports Personality of the Year

Tennis

Emma Raducanu

Raheem Sterling

Tyson Fury

Tom Daley

Adam Peaty

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