Hoy beats Hamilton for award
Eurosport - Thu, 27 Nov 15:15:00 2008
Triple Olympic gold medal winner Chris Hoy beat out Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton to be named British sportsman of the year at the 60th Sports Journalists' Association sports awards.
Hamilton will race Hoy around Wembley Stadium next month as a warm-up for the Race of Champions event.
The 23-year-old Hamilton will be at the wheel of a Mercedes road car while Hoy will cycle on a parallel track constructed over the turf of the national football stadium.
Both men are also among the favourites for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Olympic yachting gold medallist Ben Ainslie was third in the Sports Journalists Award list.
Rebecca Adlington, who twice triumphed in the Water Cube's swimming pool in Beijing, was named sportswoman of the year ahead of world road-race champion and Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Nicole Cooke.
Cooke came in ahead of Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu, who won Britain's only athletics gold in Beijing.
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Agreed - Hamilton is British no doubt but it really bothers me when he tries to justify his escape to Switzerland based on "media intrusion into my private life" when eevrybody knows it is simply to avoid paying taxes.
If I could find some stories about him in the tabloid rags or general gossip magazines then I could understand it but quite frankly, considering his status, they haven't written a thing about him - I have no idea what "media intrusion" he is whinging about regarding his personal life.
Hoy is a great choice, especially as he is resident in the UK for tax purposes. Hamilton has plenty of years ahead of him.
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