Why are no women up for the BBC sports personality award?

Talking Point Wed 30 Nov 2011, AT 11:12

Female world champs have been overlooked in favour of more famous but less successful men

Fran Halsall

Commonwealth Games swimmers get ‘Delhi belly’

News Thu 7 Oct 2010, AT 10:59

Yet more trouble for organisers as England’s Fran Halsall has to be pulled, vomiting, from the pool

A man with a net clears the pool at the Delhi Commonwealth Games

Beetles, birds and buses cause trouble in Delhi

News Tue 5 Oct 2010, AT 10:18

Games are underway but problems persist as a swarm of beetles delays a men’s swimming final

Rebecca Adlington

‘Spoon-faced’ Adlington slams BBC for Boyle joke

News Mon 2 Nov 2009, AT 16:13

Rebecca Adlington’s agent has attacked the BBC Trust for failing to punish comedian Frankie Boyle’s rude joke

Rebecca Adlington

Boyle’s back: ‘Adlington looks like a beagle’

News Wed 28 Oct 2009, AT 12:34

The Glaswegian comic shrugs off criticism for his jokes about swimmer Rebecca Adlington

Rebecca Adlington

Adlington jibe out of order in comedy crackdown

News Tue 20 Oct 2009, AT 11:21

‘She looks like somebody looking at themselves in the back of a spoon’. Not funny, says BBC Trust

michael phelps

Phelps sets world record in showdown with Cavic

News Sun 2 Aug 2009, AT 09:34

Olympic champion wins epic 100m butterfly, but Rebecca Adlington is left in tears after finishing fourth in the 800m freestyle

Rebecca Adlington and Chris Hoy

Adlington and Hoy enjoy lion’s share of post-Olympic gold

News Mon 27 Jul 2009, AT 09:22

They were promised fame and fortune - but most of Britain's Olympians have had to go without