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Surely Leicester’s effort beats Team GB or England rugby for Spoty team award? | Paul Wilson

Rio Olympic Games were a gold medal fest and Eddie Jones has transformed England but only one team induced panic at bookmakers and forced Gary Lineker to go on live TV in his underwearFootball has tended to be under-represented in the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year awards, partly due to the fact team games do not always advance individuals for special recognition and partly because it has been a while since teams made the sort of statement beyond these shores that they did in 1966 or 1999.Traditionally the award for team of the year has gone to World Cup winners or significant European champions such as Celtic in 1967 and Manchester United a year later. There has been only...

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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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