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Who will win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year team award?

Leicester City’s unlikely Premier League title is likely to make them favourites, but they will have strong competition from Team GB, Wales’s footballers and England’s rugby union sideIf the most important factor for the judges is which team’s achievement was the most unlikely, they should look no further than Leicester City. Money doesn’t just talk in the Premier League, it stands an inch from your ear and shouts into it with a megaphone, and no one, probably not even Claudio Ranieri’s mother, had Leicester down as title contenders. Promoted from the Championship in 2014, they had escaped relegation by the skin of their teeth and many tipped them to go down after they sacked Nigel Pearson to bring in Ranieri....

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Pathetic, faceless hackers are trying to drag me and other athletes through the mud | Sam Quek

Britain’s Olympic hockey gold medallist Sam Quek on her anger and frustration about being named by Fancy Bears hackersI was embarrassed and frustrated when I saw my name in the latest list of Olympians leaked by Fancy Bears. To me they are merely pathetic and faceless hackers attempting to drag athletes through the mud. My frustration does not stem from a medical record being made public and my privacy being violated, though. I am more annoyed about the reaction. The feeling of going on Twitter or scrolling through certain media to see headlines like “Gold medal winner takes banned substance” was not pleasant.This comes with the naturally raised profile of winning an Olympic gold medal, but therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs)...

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