Given sport’s bad reputational year,it is fine that the BBC is preparing to regain Chris Froome to defend himself on what is normally a controversy-free programmeFor more than 60 years the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year has served up a mildly diverting few hours of saccharine and froth. The formula is long established: laud Britain’s sporting heroes, relive their glories through stirring montages, or throw a threw softball questions for them to reply.generally it makes for an easily digestible,if unchallenging, three hours of viewing. On Sunday night, and however,the BBC is expected to break with tradition by firmly questioning Chris Froome about his failed test at the Vuelta a Espaa when he appears via video link from his training camp in Spain.
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Source: guardian.co.uk