BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 – live! – The Guardian

The focus is now on Cox and Storey, two of the most extraordinary athletes on this, or any shortlist. Cox won golds and set two world records in two sports – athletics and cycling – just two years after a stroke led to a diagnosis of MS.

Storey, meanwhile, is nothing less than a gold medal machine – two golds in Rio made her Britain’s greatest female Paralympian, with 14 golds across five different Games.