Sir Bradley Wiggins

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deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

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I heard the excellent news about Sir Bradley and Pendleton CBE last night on the radio but didn't know about Kenny and Trott getting OBEs. Meanwhile, let's not forget Sir Chris Hoy, who's worn his title with evident pride since whenever it was he got bonged up.
 
al-fresco

al-fresco

Growing older but not up...
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Shropshire
Yeah... pleased for Bradley but I have misgivings about the whole honour system - no one (IMO) should get an honour for doing their job. For example I think that the reason Terry Pratchett deserved a knighthood was because of the way he responded to his Alzheimer's diagnosis and used it to advance the debate on the subject - not because he was a writer. The reward for being a good writer is that people want to read your books. Then there's the 'risk' of giving an honour to a sportsman that is still actively engaged in sport. It does set them up and give the press an excuse to demand that they be stripped of the honour if there's the slightest suggestion of impropriety (not just drugs). In the USA a player can't be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame until he has been retired for 2 years - I think that has some merit.

The attitude I admire most is that of people who just say 'No thanks' to a knighthood - of course it's hard to know exactly who they are but I bet that Alan Bennett is one of them.

So - arise Sir Brad and well done. It's not a perfect system but, if you're going to hand out gongs there's a lot worse candidates. (Bruce Forsyth springs immediately to mind.)

Hmm, now that we have 2 cycling knights how about a jousting tournament in the velodrome?
 
AndyRM

AndyRM

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mattsr said:
I very much doubt that will be the case. I don't think anyone who saw Sir Wiggo's passionate denunciation of the Twitter rumour-mongers during the Tour would think he has anything to hide; and his words on the subject on the recent Sky documentary reinforce that view.

It seems a shame that such speculation persists, but I suppose it is inevitable given cycling's unfortunate past.
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Couldn't have put it better myself.
 
PaulB

PaulB

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Colne
Erm, haven't people forgotten someone here? Hmm? You know, another cyclist who's been bypassed in congratulations on this? Still, as he's only a common Colner, I don't suppose he warrants a congrats, eh?
 
MontyVeda

MontyVeda

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Lancaster... the little city.
what piSSes me off about the honours system is it's too bloody easy!

You walk up the queen, get knighted and that's it? What about having to fight an existing knight to the death first... that'd be good.

"...and we're just starting round three of Bradley Wiggins vs Sir Cliff Richard ... Wiggins certainly looks out of place on horseback and Sir Cliff's excellent jousting skills in rounds one and two have really taken Wiggins by surprise! ... It's really looking like Wiggo won't be a knight of the realm after all."
 
Hotblack Desiato

Hotblack Desiato

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Accy cyclist said:
He's gone from being one of us to one of them.:thumbsdown: An OBE would've sufficed but they had to go over the top didn't they! "Sirs" don't win bike races.
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My GP was a Sir (inherited, too). A pleasanter, more down to earth guy you wouldn't want to meet. I also did business with someone for years without ever knowing he was Lord somebody, simply because he used his family name without the Lord bit.
 
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