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) implementation of simple racing games featuring "Pong"-era graphics. However, these systems lack the flexibility found in later ROM cartridge based consoles, and there were never more than a few such processor-based cartridges released. Later, the potentially more versatile ROM Cartridge based Fairchild Channel F was licensed, rebadged and released under the Adman Grandstand label as the "Video Entertainment Computer" in the UK (pictured). The company sold rebadged SG-1000s in New Zealand. Astro Wars, Munchman, Caveman and Scramble amongst others were popular VFD-based tabletop electronic games released by Grandstand in the early 1980s. Grandstand also produced LCD-based handheld electronic games such