Sprinter Chris Hoy has been named as BBC TV's Scottish Sports Personality of the Year. Earlier this week Nicole Cooke was named as BBC Welsh Sports Personality of the Year. And on Sunday night, Lance Armstrong is expected to get the Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award in the 50th annual running of the BBC's public poll. UPDATE: Lance did win!

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And one of the runners up in the Scottish SPotY awards was David Millar.

The news of Chris Hoy’s win can be found on his website, http://www.chrishoy.com

The BBC radio programme which broke the news of the award can be heard here (you’ll need RealPlayer). http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/index.shtml

Fast forward to the 45 minute mark.

Hoy is the current Scottish and Commonwealth 1km record holder. He won two gold medals in the World Cup in Cape Town, and a bronze medal in the team sprint 1km time-trial in Stuttgart.

LANCE ARMSTRONG WINS OVERSEAS SPORTS PERSONALITY:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…/3319029.stm

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