I must admit, as a SPOTY fan, it's becoming harder to defend it. In the past it really was a celebration of British sport that did it's best to cover every champion that year, from Athletics through to Mongolian bucket jumping. Now it's just a vast stadium with a huge number of sports people looking bored. Why go through every nominee again? The recap of the 12 took so long that there was no time for anything else. Plus, half the awards had already been announced on the BBC website in the days before the program.