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Less than 30 seconds related to the Three Day Eventing team, no mention of Tina Cook's individual gold and just a photo of OT celebrating his win at Burghley. Let alone the dressage success at the Euros this year.

And it's not exactly been a sporting year so why so little coverage?

BAH. Come on BBC, get your act together
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Oh gosh, but do remember horses don't appeal to the masses as clearly it's only a sport for the very very rich..

*rolls eyes at bbc: crys over bank balance*
 
QR Well, do better on the world stage for one. Take note of how many World champions in mainstream sports we currently have, e.g Beth Tweddle, Jensen Button.
England have qualified unbeaten for the World Cup Final. We also won the Ashes for the first time in 21 years.
I think someone said at the time that winning a gold medal in a sport that only seven countries fielded a team only three of which had any chance of winning and only four of five of those completed at all was hardly good for the sport. We held a European Championships that was regarded outside this country as a disaster, though we did well in the dressage, but got absolutely thrashed in the showjumping by the Swiss in the team and even worse by the French in the individual.
Much as I dislike it, that is the reality and the persistence in using greenwich as an Olympic venue despite the very real objections to the plan (I am not refering to the hysterical opposition by the way, just the fact the residentslives will be made a misery for months, twice for example.) has not helped..
 
Given that tonight TV is given over to snooker and when it isn't snooker it's golf or darts or football or if you're in Wales poxy club rugby, we can safely assume that the BBC will only cater for "rube" sport oh and athletics and cycling, stuff that either doesn't take much watching or doing and is cheap.
However, if equestrian sports are only for the rich where do thicko premier league footballers come in in all this and do the equally thicko football fans put 2 and 2 together when they pay through the nose for their tickets.
And F1 that isn't cheap either but I forgot it's blokey and didn't that grim little oik give a load of money to the government to keep tobacco sponsorship and we all know who the BBCs pay masters are.
Off on one now so I'd better shut up before I become incoherent.
 
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So it's better if you're rubbish at something for years and then win than to be consistently good at every championship (Eventers)
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Phil Taylor has been wrld darts champion 14 TIMES.. hes not nominated.. again.. why? cause he plays for the PDC.. its not fair! I boycotted watching.. like most of Stoke on Trent!

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Equestrianism is a minority sport - expensive to take part in with little financial reward - which means little media coverage which means few votes from Joe Public (unless you're royal). Sad, but that's probably why I like it, doesn't attract too many (chavvy) spectators. I can't be doing with crowds.
 
The montage was a bit weedy, but I think there will be loads of fans of other sports also wondering where their mention was - it was just too short as a review.

Re amount of equestrian sports on TV, I'd love to see more of it, but the BBC make their decisions based on what's going to please the biggest audience and sadly that isn't horses. They're not stupid, they want the biggest ratings / fewest complaints (within what rights they can legitimately apply for / afford).

There's no blokey conspiracy or cash-related conspiracy for football, rugby and F1 to take over, it's much less exciting than that - it's just a simple fact that those are the sports which win most viewers when they're broadcast.

On the brighter side, to be honest, I think the real-time coverage we currently get (albeit only of the biggest events) on the red button is better than we'd get if it was broadcast on one or two. That's where digital comes into its own, and I'd like to see more of it.

PS in terms of who made it into the final 10 nominees, the list was drawn up by sports editors and writers from newspapers and magazines:

"The nominations are provided by a panel of over 30 leading sporting experts from a selection of newspaper sports editors (national and regional) and magazines."

These'll be the same newspaper editors who let stringers write up a report on cross country day of Badminton without waiting to see everyone go, and who publish on the Sunday morning that Leslie Law's in the lead when he'd been beaten into second or third later in the day - can't remember which year it was, but was astounded to see it in the Telegraph a few years ago. The lack of understanding's very widespread.

 
Simply - what a load of poo.
Not saying that Tina or anyone horsey should have won, but its still poo. It was a VERY bad night to put it on the telly 'cos of xfactor - BAD BBC, very bad.
 
True, my argument is riddled with holes
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but I'd still rather go eventing than to a big darts match or even a big race meeting - too many noisy people.
 
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Totally agree, maybe we should all e-mail to complain again!!!! Its sooooo annoying what do equestian sports have to do to be recognised, by mainstream media?

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don't get me started on why I was up at 4am watching the Olympics - the only time the full XC was on, and I had no recorder
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*may be insane*
although the coverage of Olympia looks pretty good this year. For me, the thing that makes Christmas is watching the Puissance and the Finale.
Last year I watched it at work, after much remote hogging and comments about "chasing foxes in tight white trousers"
Funny how everyone was glued to the Puissance and rooting for them after 10 mins
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completely agree we have a world champion F1 driver, heavyweight boxer, gymnast, eventer, long jumper. andy murray (though i dislike him) has done a lot this year. spot the odd man out Ryan Giggs what has he done this year and who voted for him
 
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Anyone care to enlighten me on what has made Ryan Giggs stand out over the last year? Have Wales won some cup i didn't hear about?
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Giggs withdrew from international football to concentrate on his club, as to what he's done this year. Turned up and collected salary as far as I can remember.
Completely agree went to wrong person!
 
manchester united have the biggest fan base of any sporting club in the world I hear so although i am not quite sure why he was nominated, once he was, there was only going to be one winner. Anyone want to check on any of the many MU forums if you are not convinced!
 
The sport has to lift its profile and this rests on the shoulders of the people responsible for the image of the sport the success of our dressage team is an outstanding improvement in our dressage performance. It was interesting on the lunchtime program on the Wireless that the planning application for Greenwich is being opposed by residents and might get refused. We have the finest three day events in the world and to chose a site which will have no trade stands and where the horses will have to kept somewhere else is a joke. The infrastructure of volunteers that events like Burghley have built up over they years can not easily be replicated in a single event. The improvement in traffic management over the years is one of the most improved factors.
 
I accept that three day eventing and dressage are, sadly, minority sports, and even show jumping does not command the following football does. But racing is different and does have a huge following, and for Tony McCoy not to even qualify for the nomination list is nothing short of disgraceful.
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Cornelius Lysaght on BBC Somerset this morning said only 6 out of the 30 newspaper sports editors put Tony McCoy forward. He also made a salient point (though not an excuse) that maybe it's because McCoy's been so consistent, rather than going from almost nowhere to one or two stand out successes, he hasn't hit the mainstream headlines ??

I agree re Ryan Giggs... some kind of organised effort by the fan base has to have something to do with it. 151,842 people voted for him. Jenson Button got 96 thousand 770 votes.
 
I have already commented on this on another thread, but Ryan Giggs is one of the best footballers in the world, despite being much older than many of this colleagues. However much this pains me (i am a Liverpool fan) Manchester United are one of the best teams in the world and for Giggs to still be regularily getting a starting place in there team at his age is amazing. he is a fantastic player and an even better professional - there isn't a manager in the world who wouldn't pay millions for him to be on their team. Yes it might have been a surprise, but that doesn't mean he didn't deserve to win. he has worked just a hard as all the other people nominted, if not harder, and he has managed to stay at the top of the game for 20 years - how many of the others will manage to do that?

Zara Philips won if a few years ago and Pippa Funnell was nominated and in the top three. For a minority sport like equestrainism that is a pretty impressive record.
 
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I have already commented on this on another thread, but Ryan Giggs is one of the best footballers in the world, despite being much older than many of this colleagues. However much this pains me (i am a Liverpool fan) Manchester United are one of the best teams in the world and for Giggs to still be regularily getting a starting place in there team at his age is amazing. he is a fantastic player and an even better professional - there isn't a manager in the world who wouldn't pay millions for him to be on their team. Yes it might have been a surprise, but that doesn't mean he didn't deserve to win. he has worked just a hard as all the other people nominted, if not harder, and he has managed to stay at the top of the game for 20 years - how many of the others will manage to do that?

Zara Philips won if a few years ago and Pippa Funnell was nominated and in the top three. For a minority sport like equestrainism that is a pretty impressive record.

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I agree with everything you say about Ryan Giggs there. I also like the fact that unlike many footballers you don't hear about him falling out of nightclubs, getting into fights etc. Not being a football fan I've looked a little deeper at him this morning and he does a huge amount for charity (UNICEF) all quietly and without the song and dance that others seem to need.
He is a talented, dedicated and inspirational sportsman that cannot be denied.....but I thought that this actual award was for people who had achieved something great this year which I haven't seen him doing to be perfectly honest
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I think it would have been more fitting for him to have won a lifetime achievement award TBH
 
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