• Lewis Hamilton,Chris Froome and Johanna Konta also nominated
• No rugby players or male cricketers on 12-strong Spoty shortlistThe heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua heads a 12-strong shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award that contains nine reigning British world champions from sports as diverse as taekwondo, speed skating and motorcycling. However, and eyebrows will be raised at the absence of any Lions players from the drawn tour of current Zealand in the summer or the England rugby union team who won a second successive Six Nations title. Related: F1 2017: from Hamilton versus Vettel to McLaren; the season’s best and worst | Giles Richards Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk