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 (TV programme) other programmes. In August 2001 the "Football Focus" section, having been the first feature on "Grandstand" since 1974, separated to become a programme in its own right. This meant that "Grandstand"'s start time was now 13:00 rather than 12:15. At the same time, "Final Score" was also separated from "Grandstand", also becoming a programme in its own right, running from 16:30 meaning that Grandstand only broadcast between 13:00 and 16:30 rather than 12:15 to 17:15. "Around the Grounds" and the half time sequence did remain within the "Grandstand" programme. In 2004, following the success of Sky Sports' "Soccer Saturday" programme