BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017: World 10,000m champion Mo Farah wins

The 34-year-old was presented the award on video link by daughter Rhianna.
Farah won his third successive world 10,000m gold medal in London in August, despite almost falling twice late in the race.
He becomes the first long-distance runner to win the Sports Personality award since Paula Radcliffe in 2002.
World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea was second and two-time Paralaympic champion Jonnie Peacock third.
Former Liverpool and Scotland striker Kenny Dalglish announced the award at a sold-out Echo Arena in Liverpool.
Farah, who was at the Sir Mo Farah Track in London, looked genuinely surprised to be named the winner before the video link cut out.
Former sprinter Michael Johnson stepped in to say a few words on Farah's behalf.
"It's well deserved," the American four-time Olympic champion said. "This year he came into his home championships, his last race on the track, and still delivered.
"Over the years he's dominated, he's out there by himself and always got the tactics right."

'I cannot believe I have won'

Farah, one of 12 contenders for the award, has been shortlisted five times before and enjoyed his previous highest finish of third in 2011.
After the show went off air, Farah spoke to those inside the arena.
Appearing close to tears, Farah said he was shocked to win because of the quality of the other athletes up for the award.
"It is pretty amazing and hard to think about," he said.
"I didn't imagine I was every going to win this but I anything can happen. If you work hard you can achieve your dreams.
"I am sorry I could not be there. My kid has been not well.
"I just cannot believe I have won."
A third successive World Championships 10,000m gold medal was the highlight of a year in which Farah also won a world 5,000m silver, missing out on a fifth major championships distance double in a row.
The Somali-born Londoner, a four-time Olympic champion, received a knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace in November.
He bowed out from his track career with a 5,000m victory at the Diamond League event in Zurich in August, and will now concentrate on road races.
In second place, Northern Ireland's Rea became the first rider to clinch three successive World Superbike titles, breaking American Colin Edwards' 15-year record for the number of points scored in a season.
He was also made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Third-placed Peacock won the T44 100m final in London in 10.75 seconds for his second world title after success in Lyon four years earlier.
The two-time Paralympic champion, who had his right leg amputated below the knee as a five-year-old after contracting meningitis, also became the first disabled contestant in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing show this year.

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