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Roger Alton: 2013 was even better for sport than 2012

The Sports Personality of the Year shortlist could easily be twice as long

issue 14 December 2013
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British sport used to be dead. You only have to look down the list of past winners of the Sports Personality of the Year award to see that. In 1994 Damon Hill won it for not quite winning the Formula 1 drivers’ champion-ship; three years later Greg Rusedski won it for not quite winning the US Open.
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