BBC Sports Personality of the Year viewers and audience members were left in tears of admiration for Rob Burrow, his family and friend Kevin Sinfield.
Former Leeds Rhinos rugby league star Burrow won the Helen Rollason Award for his efforts in raising awareness of motor neurone disease. He was diagnosed with the life-limiting and incurable condition in 2019.
The award comes less than a month after former Scotland rugby union star Doddie Weir, a friend of Burrow's and the winner of this award in 2019, died after his own battle with MND.
