What a great sporting year - has it ever been better?

This year there have been so many great sporting achievments, that it is easy to forget some of these events. For example Rory Mcilroy has had a fantastic year, in any other year he would have won sports personality award but this year he came tenth. 

Every sport seems to have conjured up some great moments, in particular the Olympics, some of these memories will last long in my mind. The Olympics being held in London not only inspired the athletes but brought the country together. This is another felling that I will never forget. For those weeks of the Olympics every person was proud to be British. The athletes did not disappoint either, one after the other bringing home gold. Super Saturday was probably the greatest day in Olympic history, what made it better was that Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah were household names, but the crowd support also pushed through Greg Rutherford to win gold. He is also a household name now. 

Team GB excelled in many sports, especially cycling, rowing and boxing. The effect of these sports are that more people are taking them up. The Para-Olympics for me was remarkable. Seeing some of the athletes compete was inspiring and on many occasions I would forget that they were actually disabled. These people are all hero's, for me the star of the Para-Olympics was David Weir.   

Cycling in particular has had the best year of all the sports. Bradley Wiggins, winning the Tour de France and Olympic gold was amazing. If I was asked a question of naming two cyclist four years ago I could probably only name Chris Hoy or Victoria Pendelton. Now I can real off many cyclist's at a drop of a hat. The only blot on cycling this year is Lance Armstrong, the less this is mentioned the better. 

Up until the last two months English cricket probably felt as if they had missed the party, having a rather disapointing year by their standards. This all changed with the remarkable series win over India right at the last part of the year. It seems that English cricket is in safe hands with Alistair Cook, especially going into the Ashes next year. 

Another sport that has been pretty disappointing is football, the England team did the usual loss on penalties. The real drama came from Chelsea and Manchester City. The way in which the league was won, and between two great rivals can never repeated. Didier Drogba also stepped up for Chelsea winning the champions league rather dramatically. 

If I had to pick one person to win sports personality of the year, I would have picked Andy Murray. He has had an incredible year, reaching the final of Wimbledon, winning Olympic gold and silver and also his first major. I think his achievements should rank very high as he has to compete against three of the best tennis players the world has ever seen. 

Golf has been another sport packed with drama, Rory Mcilroy has pulled him self clear as the number one player in the world. He was also part of a successful Ryder Cup team. This was an amazing win considering that the USA had such a big lead. Ian Poulter led the comeback for Europe, many golf fans will remember this years Ryder Cup as one of the best ever.  

It has also been a good year for rugby, with Wales winning the six nations. The biggest highlight has to be England comprehensibly beating New Zealand towards the end of the year. Snooker seems to be getting back to popularity, with younger players like Judd Trump, Mark Selby and Neil Robertson coming through. The British guys in Formula One could have had a better year, but that is mainly down to their cars as well as Sebastian Vettle being so good. 

All in all I cant remember a time where British sport has been so strong. It seems at the moment that it will be impossible to top this year of sport. I hope that we can have even half the drama we had this year, if so we will have another hard choice as to who should be the sports personality next year.