{"id":1323,"date":"2005-12-11T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/sports_personal\/"},"modified":"2005-12-11T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T22:04:15","slug":"sports_personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/sports_personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Personality of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the greatest of surprises that Freddie Flintoff won it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,1659004,00.html\">I&#8217;m with Steve Cram<\/a> on the merits of the runner-up, Ellen MacArthur, getting an award in this arena.<br \/>\nI was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfords.co.uk\/\">Stanfords<\/a> earlier today where they have a fine selection of books on adventurers. And that&#8217;s the category that MacArthur belongs in &#8211; adventure. Undoubtedly, sailing around the world in the fastest time is a great achievement, but is it sport? When a runner breaks a record, they&#8217;re either competing against competitors or the clock. But the environment is fixed and it&#8217;s sporting prowess that&#8217;s being measured. Would we have given <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_of_the_Antarctic\">Scott of the Antarctic<\/a> a special (posthumous) prize if there&#8217;d been a BBC Sports Personality of the Year contest in  1912?<br \/>\n(And as an aside, why did the version of Jerusalem that the awards played out with sound like presenter Sue Barker was actually singing it herself?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the greatest of surprises that Freddie Flintoff won it. But I&#8217;m with Steve Cram on the merits of the runner-up, Ellen MacArthur, getting an award in this arena. I was in Stanfords earlier today where they have a fine selection of books on adventurers. And that&#8217;s the category that MacArthur belongs in &#8211; adventure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}