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
Amelia Reynolds (television presenter) 1996–2004) in 1997 as a presenter on the "Red Report". She joined "Look East" in 2000 as a researcher, before moving on to presenting; in 2006 she took over as the female anchor whilst Susie Fowler-Watt was on maternity leave. In 2001, Reynolds was nominated for "The RTS Best Newcomer to Television Journalism - The Mike Read Award". On 16 August 2008 she married "Inside Out" presenter David Whiteley; they both ran in, and completed, the 2009 London Marathon. Amelia Reynolds (television presenter) Amelia Reynolds is a British television journalist who works for the BBC's early evening regional programme "Look