Knighthoods For Olympians

[sir.prize]

Looks like a number of sports personalities are to receive top honours.

[EcclesCake]

Pretty standard form after an Olympics for medallists to receive awards.

What is your question?

[Zacs-Master]

How utterly earth shatteringly surprising.

[sir.prize]

I don't have a question Eccles. Just making a comment. Thought it might promote a discussion. Seems I was right.

[ChillDoubt]

I predict/would like to see Knighthoods for Bradley Wiggins, Ben Ainslie and Mo Farah.
As a single gold(so far) winner I don't believe Jess Ennis will become a Dame yet.
IMHO the rest will gain an array of thoroughly deserved MBE/OBE's and for his entire body of work(films etc combined with Olympic Ceremony) I believe Danny Boyle deserves something.

Yes many will say it's just post-Olympic backslapping but it will be nice to see those I've mentioned honoured for their efforts and the inspiration they create as opposed to some faceless finance guru(allegedly) that no one outside The City has ever heard of.

[sir.prize]

Danny Boyle has asked to be excluded.

[dotty.]

does anyone remember poor Lilian Board?

[ChillDoubt]

Didn't know that sir.prize.
Seems odd given that he must have been a very persuasive charmer to get the Queen to play the part she did at the ceremony!
Or is he just the sort of guy who would like the plaudits to go to those who actually took part in the ceremony and subsquently the athletes who performed beyond our expectations?

[craft1948]

I remember Lillian Board the 'Golden Girl'. Very bad coincidence that the French girl who beat her at the Olympics also died of cancer..............

[dotty.]

he's from Lancashire, he doesn't need any gong to say he can go where he wants.

[sir.prize]

Danny Boyle wishes to remain an 'equal citizen'. Declined knighthood.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/cycling-wiggins-set-knighted-new-years-list-092934438.html

[dotty.]

I remember seeing her in the papers just before she died, I was still at school but we'd watched her at the olympics, she was only a few years older than me when she died.

[Rose Maybud]

Lillian Board - her death at only 22 was really sad. You wonder whether she would have survived today, given the amazing results from chemotherapy and allied treatments....

[ChillDoubt]

Sad though her story is I'm struggling to see what Lillian Board's story has to do with the thread.....

Was just reading the Boyle story elsewhere. I don't think the title would have changed him, he'd obviously always be seen as 'a man of the people' and he is the type who would doubtless become a Lord in later life, just the sort we need in such places.

Oh well.

[dotty.]

The thread is about honours for olympians, Lilian Board was an Olympian and an MBE. I don't understand why her mention should be queried.

[DTCwordfan]

I am anti this; they have the honour of winning their medals

Gongs should be given out at the end of their career, unless they have achieved something exceptional like Ainslie......

[ELVIS68]

Somehow I can't see Bradley Wiggins joining the BBC/Honours winning clique

[dotty.]

but what happens to those who achieve so much so young and their career ends suddenly, like Lilian Board, the chance is lost to honour their achievements.

[dotty.]

He'll be on the school run tomorrow and so the partying will be over

[ChillDoubt]

I thought the thread was about the recent Olympians who are doubtless shortly to be honoured.
Or are we counting and discussing every Olympian in history who has recieved honours?
Just asking.

[DTCwordfan]

Posthumous award, dotty (not exactly common, I would think)