Lucy Garner, the Junior Road Race World Champion, has been announced as one of the ten short-list candidates for the much coveted BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year – amongst others she is up against last year’s winner; diving’s Tom Daley. The 17 year-old Leicestershire cyclist became Britain’s first women’s Junior Road Race World Champion since Nicole Cooke in 2001 when she took the title in September in competition in Copenhagen, the win was made all the more spectacular by her recovery from a heavy crash in the opening lap in which she suffered a badly cut knee.
The winner of the Young SPOTY will be announced on December 22 as part of the annual BBC awards. Although the nominees for the main (non-youth) awards will not be made public until Monday (November 28) it is widely thought that Mark Cavendish will be amongst the elite.
