Can't think why ...
Something to do with her enforced sabbatical, perhaps? Call me a cynic, but I don't trust her. (Perversely, I do trust Usain Bolt, despite the almost superhuman nature of his achievements.)
Tbh, I can't see beyond Rebecca Adlington for SPOTY - young, fresh-faced, blonde and English as opposed to tree-trunk-thighed, over-30 and Scottish. But SPOTY is a nonsense anyway, so who cares?
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