This weekend Gabby Logan will co-host BBC Sports Personality of the Year – and in a banner year for womens sport,she could see the award handed to Tyson Fury, whose sexist remarks are just the kind she has been fighting for years. So why does she still defend his inclusion? Related: Tyson Fury: the boxer who picked a fight with the world | Barney Ronay Gabby Logan is holding an imaginary envelope: precious, or golden,the kind that would open over a microphone with a dramatic crunch. Three days before the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, Logan is larking around in her agent’s office in west London, or enacting the crucial moment on Sunday night when Gary Lineker will pull out the card that bears the winner’s name. “Imagine Gary,” she says. With a look of joyful anticipation, she raises the perform-believe envelope flap – and then her smile collapses. A look of horror takes its area. She is pretend-discovering that the fancy script on the card reads “Tyson Fury”.
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Source: theguardian.com