Steve Rider tells BBC Sport Online about the challenges of presenting Sports Personality of the Year and how this year there are some golden memories to reflect on. This is a Sports Personality where British sport can hold its head up high. This is a year that we can really celebrate on behalf of British sport. It was Britain's best Olympic performance in living memory and, arguably, it makes 2000 the country's best sporting year since 1966. It is certainly a far cry from four years ago.
Every Olympic year is a special programme.
Atlanta was a little bit of a struggle because four years ago we didn't have anything like the success. People didn't have the warm feeling about the Olympic Games as they have about Sydney. But this is a Sports Personality where British sport can hold its head up high. It should also be a Sports Personality that Rider will remember - unlike his first one in 1986. That year Liverpool won the Team of the Year and it was presented by Jimmy Hill - dressed as Father Christmas.