Doesn’t get much love on Slowtwitch unfortunately, here is our Alex winning a mainstream award live on Skysports, here is hoping he can win BBC sports personality (Ali Brownlee came 2nd after Rio) brilliant achievement.
Good for Alex. Triathlon is a hard sport to get main stream recognition in.
Here’s hoping he does well in Spotty
I think the BBC will favour giving it to Keely Hodgkinson and will hype her up to get it.
Its become a bit of a joke in sports circles who actually gets this award to be fair.
Still weird seeing Alex on Skysports, to my knowledge they’ve never touched Triathlon.
Terrible presentation but massive achievement
I like the all caps italics with black stroked text and a cute cursivey font thrown on top for good measure.
I think that’s a PTN post though, so Kyle is still learning. Next time try bevel and emboss baby!
But I do have to say his post was better than the apparently racist AI assumptions when I asked it to make a sportsman of the year post with triathlete Alex Yee in a British theme.
Agreed, its nice exposure he got on a well watched mainstream sports channel, but no proper awards ceremony?
Anyway, Alex is 66/1 to win BBC sports personality, again I think that Hodgkinson is nailed on, she’s the BBCs blue eyed girl at the moment, but 66/1 is worth a few quid based on Alex getting this award I reckon.
Yee = 135k on insta
Hodgkinson - 516k on insta
As you say: ‘nailed on’ for SPOTY with or without BBC hype. Taking 66/1 on Yee is a poor bet.
A month ago the BBC mag listed her, an F1 driver called Norris who won’t win and a teenage darts phenom. Yee did not get a shout out (tho’ deserved one).
She’s really good to look at, id probably find her Instagram more interesting than Yee’s to be fair!
Its only money I won on Alistair podiuming, Alistair actually got down to the final 3 after he won Rio, the final voting is put down to the public and you never know how they’ll vote is worth the punt on a 66/1, ill guarantee that price will come down dramatically over the next few weeks, Alistair retiring will put Triathlon into the heads of the casual sports fan and Yee may pick up some of the Brownlee nostalgia.
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Very unlikely a triathlete will win SPOTY. They are not well known enough.
Alistair did not come second because of his Olympic win, it was because he dragged his brother over the line at Cozumel.
Are you Fred Flintstone in disguise?
I think he deserves the Olympic moment award.
Not sure if anyone is aware but when Alex ran through transition to take the bell at the end of the penultimate lap, Alistair leaned over the barrier and shouted at Alex to believe in himself and anything could happen (Wilde blowing up).
Alex said that gave him an extra click and to give it one last push to close the gap.
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I never knew that, proper passing of the torch type moment, hopefully Yee can reaccount this, as Alistair hands him his BBC SPOTY award next month!
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Gone down to 8/1 and now 3rd favourite to win, unfortunately Keely Hodgkinson as discussed is the BBCs blue eyed girl and she is certainly being pushed more than Alex.
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So here are the other names he is in the running with, how many can you say you know and what sports are they from??
Sarah Storey
Keely Hodgkinson
Luke Littler
Jude Bellingham
Joe Root
I would have expected to at least heard of one of them, but big goose egg for me. Perhaps the Brits will have more luck…