BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 – live | BBC Sports Personality of the Year

• Sports Personality of the Year

• World sports star of the year

• Helen Rollason Award

• Young Sports Personality of the Year

• Secret hero

• Coach of the Year

• Team of the Year

• Award for his life’s work

• Stuart Broad (cricket)

• Frankie Dettori (horse racing)

• Mary Earps (football)

• Alfie Hewett (wheelchair tennis)

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson (athletics)

• Rory Mcllroy (golf)

The Sports Personality of the Year award is upon us again. For some, they’re a warm, festive TV blanket, while others see them as an increasingly anachronistic exercise in box-ticking. Whatever your opinion, this annual orgy of often self-congratulatory pats on the back is now celebrating its platinum anniversary and is tonight hosted by BBC royalty in the form of Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Clare Balding.

Tonight’s ceremony will take place at Media City in Salford, where the good and great of national and international sport will gather, while the majority of the audience, the spectators, will watch from their living rooms.

“Spoty” is a consistently amusing, annual exercise in generating often inexplicable, white-hot anger in viewers who seem unaware that it is neither mandatory viewing nor of great significance in the cosmic or even sporting events . “Spoty” remains a stranger to many people, all of whom are warmly welcome to our live reporting this evening.

In just the past 12 months of sporting involvement, we’ve seen England’s Lionesses reach the final of the Women’s World Cup, Europe’s golfers win the Ryder Cup and England were deprived (yes, robbed!) of outright Ashes victory by a heady mix to what can only be described as unfair dinkum from both their Australian opponents and the weather.

Elsewhere, various Team GB representatives enjoyed success at the World Athletics Championships and the UCI Cycling World Championships, while England’s rugby players earned honors for defying the expectations of many to reach the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup.

In football, Manchester City stole the spotlight by securing the treble, and we can expect quieter but no less entertaining disciplines such as snooker, darts and bowling to get their fleeting 10 seconds of annual Spoty glory in today’s obligatory Mondays on the subject of enjoying sports We feel compelled to mention this year but don’t really have the time to think about it. For one reason or another, we can expect to see Wimbledon, the Tour de France, Formula 1, the Grand National, the Open, the Derby, the Boat Race, and various Lycra-clad athletes you’ve never heard of Skating around on the ice or parallel bars are mentioned cursorily, along with the sport you really like, which we accidentally missed here.

Today’s Sports Personality of the Year shindig is scheduled to last two hours, but will almost certainly feel much longer and will include eight different gongs, culminating in the awarding of the “Big One” to an athlete whose possession of a “personality” The awarding of the prize will then be discussed in detail on Twitter/X.

In a ceremony that will see Lineker and his co-hosts changing gears more than Lewis Hamilton tackling a hairpin bend, there will be funny, sad, jingoistic, poignant, some music and almost certainly a crazy turn from someone who might or may not be a famous YouTuber or James Cordon.

Whatever this evening’s soiree has in store for us, we’ve got you covered and, as is customary, at the end of the evening we will have a satisfactory conclusion to the endless debate about whether darts has earned the right to call itself, always have not yet come close to a sport.