Hamilton is hot favourite to lift the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award later that day.

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But it was the men, who won the Ashes, who walked off with the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award.

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His 2008 BBC Wales Sports personality of the year award was proof that beautiful is not always big.

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The next major events for Daley, who has been shortlisted for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year award, will be the 2010 Diving World Series, which begins in Dubai in March and reaches Sheffield in April.

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Pistorius, awarded the Helen Rollason Award for courage at the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, disagreed with the verdict and went to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to fight his case.

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