At Cornell University they have the world’s most powerful microscope called the transmission electron microscope, this microscope is so powerful that you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. You could use this microscope on some of the past winners of Sports Personality Of The Year and you still couldn’t find any personality in them.
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And I agree with your article; Hamilton deserves it.
Rashford hasn't won a trophy for playing sport this year, would the BBC really want to politicise such an event the week before Christmas?
The “false-positive PCR” problem is not a problem
https://virologydownunder.com/the-false-positive-pcr-problem-is-not-a-problem/
Yes, it's the weakest point about Schumacher, but he was still exceptional.
I'd actually say that Hamilton's achievement of beating his team-mate Fernando Alonso, the then reigning two-time World Champion, is actually a bigger thing in Hamilton's favour as I don't rate Rosberg or Bottas that highly. But Alonso was a top driver and to get the better of him in a debut season was very impressive.
That said, I wouldn't put a lot of money on Hamilton for SPOTY. I think O'Sullivan has a very good chance of winning it.
https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1330289506491248642
On Parler, MAGA’s post-election world view blossoms with no pushback
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/22/parler-maga-election-echo-chamber-439056
One thing to pick up on Hamilton and his income is "complex". He deliberately makes it complex e.g. we found out this week all his image rights are via a company in Malta. The fact Malta has the lowest tax rates on profits in the EU is I am sure a total coincidence.
As for Rashford, having not done much on the pitch, the year Giggs won it, it was probably his worst year, well past his best.
I always find SPOTY a strange event. Is it a reward for achievement, is it a reward for personality / doing more than just your sport or both? From year to year, it is hard to tell. Some years it is clearly purely achievement others it is more than that.
On topic. Hamilton would be a worthy winner but I've done Rashford at 3.85. I agree it's effectively a bet on the BBC putting him on the list. They know if they do he'll win so it's a big call for them. O'Sullivan is also interesting. Inexplicably missed off the list in previous years, Could be one of those "overdue" things that happens sometimes when you think it won't or even that it shouldn't. Like Paul Newman's Oscar for Color of Money.
"they are very, very rare events that are almost always caught by the process involved in reporting test results. This process considers the lab results alongside clinical and epidemiological context and checks itself before reporting."
The clinical context is not taken into account as far as I am aware with the UK's mass testing unless they are already symptomatic.
An interesting sounding sandwich...
And it wasn’t just because they were always ordered out of the way. He was clearly on a different level.
That being said, Hakkinen, Coulthard, Hill were fine drivers but a far cry from Alonso, Vettel, Raikonnen and Rosberg whom Hamilton had to overcome. Arguably in Schumacher’s career until Alonso’s emergence the only really outstanding driver other than him was Senna, who was of course killed early on in Schumacher’s first period of dominance.
I'm quite proud of the dig at Manchester United's player of the year 2020 is VAR, this as well 'I suspect if they add Rashford to the list the backlash from Tories like Ben Bradley, he of Hovis for heroin and hookers infamy, will start moaning.'
Oh and the pièce de résistance, calling Michael Schumacher 'the German shunt'.
I'm still sore over his attempted murder and title winning move on Damon Hill in Australia 1994.
Not that that helped Schumacher, of course...
But enough of stroking your ego. Well, almost: I also think you are right with your betting thoughts.
- The fatality rate of covid would necessarily have to be significantly worse than our current understanding
And
- The number of people dying within 28 days of a positive result is more than 50 times higher than the background death rate - we would expect around 1000 deaths from randomly selecting that number of people and monitoring them for 28 days; we’ve had around 55,000 such deaths. Something is therefore killing them.
I really do think, therefore, that this entire false positive meme is completely unhelpful and un-useful, and I am a bit bewildered at its apparent persistence.
TSE's first paragraph comes close.
My God, they're so lacking in personality that they've actually become inanimate...
He has always been a fair driver, races hard but knows when to draw the line and has never used underhanded tactics to advance himself.
Exhibit A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AhNs_W5OQU
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/22/hackers-try-to-steal-covid-vaccine-secrets-in-intellectual-property-war
So offronted was I that as a youngster I had a letter published in the Times bellyaching about Schumacher's move on Damon. Proof it were needed that the Times under Murdoch would publish any old rubbish, from any old riff-raff!
That one?
Kilmarnock Academy's finest!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47000268 [edit]
One of Hamilton's really memorable races for me was that Abu Dhabi title decider where he basically drove as slow as he dared to try and back Rosberg into the pack to get them to overtake him to build the points gap he needed, all the while studiously ignoring his team over the radio. Turned what really ought to have been a formality of a decider into something a bit more of an event worthy of the occasion.
Bottas has singularly failed to do anything like that in his time, other than the odd team radio message this season where he weakly muses out loud about trying to do an entirely different strategy but never quite pushes the issue far enough. And without that destabilising inter-team rivalry effect it's just allowed Hamilton to get more and more comfortable and he finds each subsequent title easier and easier.
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/734816
He may win it but he's neither a sportsman nor a personality.
They have no need.
You thought your letter was rubbish? They kept that up for a week.
The order was Hamilton, Rosberg, Vettel, with Lewis needing Nico to finish third to himself take the title. Lewis drove very slowly in certain sections, so that Seb would catch up and challenge Nico.
It didn't work out for him in the end, with the order holding to the finish and Nico becoming champion.
Bottas is undoubtedly a good driver, and has certainly kept Lewis honest on Saturdays, but he's lacking that final 1% on race day against the seven-times champion.
But I'm from the school of legendary modesty.
Today talk of a 20 year delay for the eastern arm of HS2.
Is someone leaking this for a reason in the lead up to the spending review ?
You're right it ultimately didn't work, but in the final few laps it did get very squeaky bum time for Rosberg as there was from memory multiple cars behind him led by Vettel.
Was certainly more entertaining than it otherwise would have been had Hamilton just drove the normal race, rather than basically upset the team and try to engineer a result for himself.
There is a lot of comment this afternoon about Mansell. Mansell's earliest opportunity of course arose when he was signed by Bromesberrow entrepreneur Alan McKechnie's "Christal Racing". At the time Alan was the owner of Three Choirs Wines, I believe he owned a vineyard in Newent.
I never realised there was that connection with Mansell. Thank you for a bit of trivia to gee me up as I try to sort out cover.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUfUm6kKsJw
However, he probably will.
Mind you, I take Kevin's point below about Hemingway.
Without a doubt the dullest "sport" ever known to humankind and not, in fact, a sport at all. It's a constructors' championship in a moribund and misogynistic industry flogging dead petrol engines. If F1 had any point or purpose it would have been entirely electric twenty years ago: leading the world.
And with that I bid everyone adieu. G'day all.
'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.'
Although standing at Stowe did feel like it was time to die.
This made me think of what the Americans did to the Russians over computer technology for pipeline management - maybe an urban legend.
And what the UK & France were said to have done over Concorde...
But that would be hideously immoral in this case.
Then I thought of "New Rose Hotel" by Gibson.
And fakes positives on tests.
At that point I'd have to say that COVID is pretty good at faking being a real disease.
What's the Jermain Defoe reference to?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/28/marcus-rashford-hits-hat-trick-as-manchester-united-dismantle-leipzig
https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/11/27/news/some-fans-are-outraged-jermain-defoe-is-missing-from-the-sports-personality-of-the-year-shortlist-1198084/