Huge congratulations to Olympic gold medal cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy, who was nominated BBC Sports Personality of the Year last month!

Hoy, age 32, got a very impressive 283,630 votes with F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton in second place with 163,864 and third place swimmer Rebecca Adlington with 145,924.

Overall, the cyclists reigned supreme with four of the 10 sports stars nominated for the award being cyclists. This is another great cycling statistic to add to the fact that British Cycling was also voted Team of the Year and Dave Brailsford, the performance director behind this year’s hall of 14 medals, including eight golds, won Coach of the Year.

Chris Hoy oozed cycling enthusiasm (and emotion) as he received a standing ovation from 9,000 spectators in the Liverpool Echo Arena, “I really didn’t expect this. British sport has enjoyed its best year, certainly in my lifetime. After the year I’ve had and the whole team has had, to be crowned Sports Personality of the Year, it just means so much. This is the big one and this is just unbelievable.”

So, what you waiting for…’get on your bike’ this New Year and burn off some of the excess calories as part of one of those New Year’s resolutions! Always remember though to be safe and be seen. And watch for more Sauce charity bike rides throughout 2009, following on from our efforts last year which raised almost £3,000.

Tags: British Cycling, Sauce charity bike rides

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