IN A ROOM FULL OF OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC SPORTING ROYALTY IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WAS ABLE TO PRESENT THE AWARDS TO THE WINNERS AT THE SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2012 RECENTLY.
THE DUCHESS LOOKED RADIANT IN A LONG GREEN ALEXANDER McQUEEN GOWN, WHICH WAS CUT BEAUTIFULLY, AND FROM CERTAIN ANGLES REVEALED JUST A HINT OF A TEENY-WEENY BUMP.
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE PRESENTS BRADLEY WIGGINS WITH HIS AWARD
DAVID BECKHAM WAS ALSO IN ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTED AWARDS ALONGSIDE THE DUCHESS.
WINNERS ON THE NIGHT WERE BRADLEY WIGGINS, FOR SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR, JESSICA ENNIS WAS RUNNER UP, WITH ANDY MURRAY COMING THIRD.
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE PRESENTS JESSICA ENNIS WITH HER AWARD
THE AWARDS WERE OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO THE DUCHESS PARTICULARLY DUE TO HER ROLE AS ‘OLYMPICS AMBASSADOR’
OTHER AWARDS WENT TO SEBASTIAN COE (BELOW)
FOR THE ‘LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD’
USAIN BOLT, FOR ‘OVERSEAS SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR’
DAVE BRAILSFORD (PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR OF BRITISH CYCLING) WHO WON THE AWARD FOR ‘COACH OF THE YEAR’
‘TEAM OF THE YEAR’ WAS WON BY BOTH TEAM GB AND PARALYMPIC GB, THE ‘UNSUNG HERO AWARD’ WENT TO SUE AND JIM HOUGHTON, (WHO SPENT 25 YEARS TRANSFORMING A DERELICT LEICESTERSHIRE SPORTS GROUND INTO A COMMUNITY FACILITY), AND ‘THE HELEN ROLLASON AWARD’ WENT TO MARTINE WRIGHT
THE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL 7/7 SURVIVOR WHO PLAYED SITTING VOLLEYBALL FOR PARALYMPICS GB
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING THE SPORTING HEROES WATCHED WITH TEARFUL EYES AS THEIR TEAMMATES AND OTHER SPORTING STARS REGALED THEIR INSPIRATIONS BEHIND THEIR SUCCESS AND LIFE-EXPERIENCES.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WONDERFUL OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC HEROES…. YOU HAVE TRULY ‘INSPIRED A GENERATION’!
