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Sports Personality 2021: Arsenal and Scotland defender Jen Beattie wins Helen Rollason Award

 


Sports Personality 2021: Arsenal and Scotland protector Jen Beattie wins Helen Rollason Award

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Arms stockpile and Scotland protector Jen Beattie has been regarded with the Helen Rollason Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021.

Beattie, 30, was determined to have bosom disease in October 2020 subsequent to finding an irregularity, however kept on playing for club and country

She is presently disease free and uses her foundation to talk about her experience and urge others to get screened.

Beattie said getting the Helen Rollason grant was a "gigantic honor".

"Getting told you have disease is an extraordinary second," she said.

"It was terrible, there could be no alternate method for portraying it, particularly in the center of a pandemic when you don't have your loved ones there with you."

She added: "In any event, having the option to say the words 'disease free' is only the best inclination."

Beattie was given her honor by Arsenal colleague Leah Williamson. She couldn't be at the Sports Personality show in Salford because of Arsenal's Women's Super League responsibilities.

Beattie's dad, Scottish telecaster and previous rugby association player John Beattie, said of his little girl getting the honor: "Of the relative multitude of things she's done, this is the main second.

"You can forever be perceived for being great at kicking a ball, yet she needed it to be tied in with ensuring she saved a few lives."

"I can genuinely say that getting checked is quite possibly the main thing," said Beattie. "Assuming you feel anything that feels strange, go get checked.

"It most certainly saved my life."

The Helen Rollason Award perceives extraordinary accomplishment even with difficulty and was acquainted with the show in 1999 in memory of the BBC Sport writer and moderator, who kicked the bucket of disease that year at 43 years old.

Skipper Sir Tom Moore won the honor in 2020. Past champs incorporate Scotland rugby association extraordinary Doddie Weir, who has engine neurone sickness, Hillsborough fiasco campaigner Anne Williams, and dashing driver Billy Monger.

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