BBC Sports Personality of the Year: Zara Phillips trots in mum's hoofsteps.
Team Royal Family capped a remarkable year with Queen Liz 2’s granddaughter Zara Phillips being voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In the face of terribly stiff competition from the likes of comedian David Walliams (swimming) and golfer Darren Clarke (dead wife), Zara galloped away with the prize for winning some gymkhana or other.
Phillips won the increasingly pointless prize 35 years after her mother, the horse-faced Princess Anne, was awarded the gong. This is the first time that two members of the same family have won the Beeb prize, proving that the British royal family is the most athletic and talented family in Britain and therefore the world.
What makes Phillips’s success even more impressive is that her sport is possibly the most competitive sport of all as anyone can pick up a horse and just play. “Three day eventing is quite simply the world’s biggest sport,” neighed Princess Anne from her nosebag, “and for Zara to win this, coming from her background, against all the odds, it is just a superb achievement”.
Earlier in the year the entire nation huddled around their TV sets to watch the perky royal gallop and jump her way to victory in the three day gymkhana, beating off the favourite Baron von Fosse den Hellanbergerfritz of the Austro-Hungarian royal family. For many, this is memory that will never fade and made us proud to be British.
The victory is expected to spark a wave of interest in horse riding stuff with youngsters across the country practising their dressage and fast trotting. Senior figures in a number of national sports including football and cricket are privately worried that young people, in an attempt to emulate their new hero Phillips, will turn their attention to horse riding instead of kicking a ball or swinging a bat. Said Sir Cuthbert Fartt-Belcher, Chairman of the FA; “we fear that young boys will be asking for My Little Pony for Christmas instead of a football and this could have major long term ramifications for the success of England football team”.
For Phillips however, being voted Sports Personality of the Year could be a signal that an MBE or perhaps an even higher honour from her granny could be just around the corner. In the meantime she insists that the award won’t change her; “this is an amazing achievement by me but it won’t change me. I’ll still be the same old Princess Zara and I won't let it go to my head. You’ll still find me down at Debenhams on a Saturday afternoon and I’ll still supervise the mucking out in the stables”.
Mum Anne would certainly approve of this down to earth attitude. Reflecting on her experience of winning the award, Anne snorted, “one just has to keep it real, now get out of my way you fucking peasants”.
Phillips won the increasingly pointless prize 35 years after her mother, the horse-faced Princess Anne, was awarded the gong. This is the first time that two members of the same family have won the Beeb prize, proving that the British royal family is the most athletic and talented family in Britain and therefore the world.
What makes Phillips’s success even more impressive is that her sport is possibly the most competitive sport of all as anyone can pick up a horse and just play. “Three day eventing is quite simply the world’s biggest sport,” neighed Princess Anne from her nosebag, “and for Zara to win this, coming from her background, against all the odds, it is just a superb achievement”.
Earlier in the year the entire nation huddled around their TV sets to watch the perky royal gallop and jump her way to victory in the three day gymkhana, beating off the favourite Baron von Fosse den Hellanbergerfritz of the Austro-Hungarian royal family. For many, this is memory that will never fade and made us proud to be British.
The victory is expected to spark a wave of interest in horse riding stuff with youngsters across the country practising their dressage and fast trotting. Senior figures in a number of national sports including football and cricket are privately worried that young people, in an attempt to emulate their new hero Phillips, will turn their attention to horse riding instead of kicking a ball or swinging a bat. Said Sir Cuthbert Fartt-Belcher, Chairman of the FA; “we fear that young boys will be asking for My Little Pony for Christmas instead of a football and this could have major long term ramifications for the success of England football team”.
For Phillips however, being voted Sports Personality of the Year could be a signal that an MBE or perhaps an even higher honour from her granny could be just around the corner. In the meantime she insists that the award won’t change her; “this is an amazing achievement by me but it won’t change me. I’ll still be the same old Princess Zara and I won't let it go to my head. You’ll still find me down at Debenhams on a Saturday afternoon and I’ll still supervise the mucking out in the stables”.
Mum Anne would certainly approve of this down to earth attitude. Reflecting on her experience of winning the award, Anne snorted, “one just has to keep it real, now get out of my way you fucking peasants”.
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