Following the most successful Olympic Games in over 100 years sports commentators, journalists and former sportsmen and women have speculated at how the BBC Sports Personality of the year will be decided.
The decision of who wins the award goes to a public vote who select from a list of ten who are whittled down by experts.
But some are saying that even getting a list of just ten could prove to be an impossible task.
A spokesman for the expert committee said "it's a difficult year for us, normally we give it to nine random people who have done well and have one standout winner which is usually whoever wins the Formula One as it finishes at around the same time as the ceremony.
The insider who didn't want to be named went on "failing that we give it to Murray, it's controversial but some people like him.
"How are we supposed to get it down to ten, I would have preferred it if we had a shit Olympics but we had one plucky loser whom we could all get behind and cheer him or her along only to finish fourth, preferably after a penalty decision by a judge so that we had someone to blame.
The insider went on stating it wasn't a happy Olympics for everyone in the UK "I was looking forward to seeing one of our athletes tripped by one of their competitors only to get up and apologise to the person that tripped them, that's the British way.
Another insider caused controversy asking can the British public be trusted given their recent voting history saying "Look at their recent voting history, I wouldn't hold my breath that black immigrant, Mo Farah, will be getting many votes.
He said "With so many to choose from we may need to actually pick the ten based on their actual personality like it says on the award, not who the media picks like in a General Election. Who knows, the winner could be a darts player from Chiswick just because he has a bubbly personality.
It wasn't just the BBC that were having a headache. The government, who have to select the people to receive notification in the New Years Honours list were also having trouble who to nominate.
A government insider said "normally we just do the a few celebrities, a journalist or two, maybe washed up retired Shakespeare actor, a TV personality doing some charity work with disabled kids and a couple of milkmen but now we've got all these athletes, it's a nightmare.
He continued "We'll probably find out in the future that they were rapists, paedophiles and murderers but right now they should be rewarded.
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