BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and the winner is selected by BBC Sport. The award is named after the BBC sports presenter Helen Rollason, who died in August 1999 at the age of 43 after suffering from cancer for two years. Helen Rollason was the first female presenter of "Grandstand". After being diagnosed with cancer, she
Grandstand (game manufacturer) Pinball Wizard, an electric wall-plug based pinball machine. The black & white T.V. Game 2000 and the colour capable T.V. Game 3000 were fully integrated Pong-derived consoles sold under the Grandstand label in the mid-to-late 1970s. Subsequently, the primitive cartridge-based Grandstand Colour Programmable video game console (sold in New Zealand as the "Mark III Video Game") and several compatible Grandstand programmable video game cartridges were introduced. These consoles were still essentially "Pong" type affairs, but had a limited selection of cartridges available, each housing a different General Instruments processor chip. This arrangement allowed for some variation in gameplay including the