Claims by Carl Fogarty that the annual Sports Personality of the Year competition was ‘fixed’ have been denied by the BBC.
Fogarty claims a "BBC source" told him he had polled more votes than Sports Personality of the Year winner Lennox Lewis in 1999. But he reckons he did not win because boxing and not motorcycling was on the BBC at the time.
The BBC said: "There is absolutely no truth in this story. The award is decided by a public vote and Carl Fogarty was not placed in the top three."
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