![]() ![]() His focus remains on winning more tournaments. That is the way Andy Murray believes it should be. Let them achieve the many cycling goals that lie ahead for them, then give them the ultimate honour. It is hard it imagine teammates at Tokyo 2020 calling them Sir and Dame. Yet for all their individual successes, they see themselves as being part of a team. If you believe sportsmen and women should be role models, Jason and Laura are your standard bearers. ![]() ![]() The first the world knew was when Jason tweeted a picture of Laura, adding: “Good morning Mrs Kenny.” They may have been the golden couple of two Olympic Games but when they married, it was in a quiet, private ceremony. What makes Jason and Laura special is they don’t think they are. They are the boy and girl next door, grown up to make a heartwarming success of their young lives. It’s the very least they deserve for leading Team GB’s gold rush. Mr and Mrs Kenny – they got married in September – haven’t just earned their gongs. ![]() It takes years of sacrifice and monastic abstinence, during which you need permission to have chips with your dinner.Īnd it takes countless hours of training so hard it makes you throw up into a bucket through exhaustion. To become an Olympic cycling champion, you don’t just hop aboard a Raleigh Chopper, pedal round the block for half a dozen laps and wait for someone famous to hang the bullion around your neck. The case is as clear as night and day – or Knight and Dame. If Jason’s record-equalling six Olympic titles and Laura’s four visits to the top of the podium are not worthy of the top gongs in our honours system, then just how many does it take? Jason and Laura Kenny are the most decorated couple in British Olympic history.Īnd when their stockpile of gold medals reached double figures in Rio, it was pure Mills and Boon as they sealed it with a kiss. They are cycling’s golden couple, the Posh and Becks of the velodrome. Ms Abbott will receive her new title alongside Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, 56. The self-described staunch republican will have to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace where royal protocol means she should kneel before the monarch. Wilson, will also be made a CBE.Īn ‘astonished’ Joanna Lumley said she had received ‘the kindest and most beautiful present imaginable’ after being given a damehood.Away from the honours list, a number of Labour bigwigs are set to be appointed to the historic group the Privy Council, including Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, 63. Meanwhile, Barbara Broccoli, who controls the Bond franchise with her half-brother Michael G. The departing secret agent has been made a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George – which is styled CMG and was also conferred on the fictional spy in the film series and Ian Fleming’s books. James Bond star Daniel Craig has been handed a special diplomatic honour after taking on the role of 007 in five films, including his final outing in No Time To Die. None of England’s Euro 2020 stars have been included – with the exception of assistant manager Steve Holland – after they were beaten by Italy in a nail-biting finale. Seven-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft has been made OBE after winning two golds in wheelchair racing, as well as campaigning to encourage more disabled children to take up sports in school. Strictly Come Dancing star Adam Peaty has scooped an OBE, while there is an MBE for Tom Dean after both swimmers won Olympic gold. ![]()
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