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Hamish Macdonell: If honours are even why isn't she Dame Becky?

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Published Date: 06 January 2009

'ARISE Sir Chris", championed the headlines as Scotland's most successful Olympian was awarded a knighthood last week. Sir Chris Hoy's three gold medals were seen as more than an adequate qualification for a knighthood.
But what about Becky Adlington and her two gold medals, the first woman to win swimming gold for Britain in 48 years? She was made an OBE, quite an honour for a 19-year-old with the best yet to come in her career, but did she deserve more?

Her ...



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donald,

glasgow 06/01/2009 08:09:29
Only tame Onionist Hmasters grovel to the English Honours system. Sir Chris has been promised a new Union Jack Bike Shed in Manchester for his Team GB genuflections.
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donald,

glasgow 06/01/2009 08:10:59
Typo. Hamster as in Hamish the Tame Onionst Hamster.
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donald,

glasgow 06/01/2009 08:12:34
Typo 2. Onionist as in London takeover so called "Unionist groveller
4

G,

dundy 06/01/2009 12:36:28
Funny how none of the SNPites are on bleating about obvious pro-Scottish bias in the honours system!

#1 - pathetic....I suppose the SNP have plans for a Scottish cycling centre, uncosted of course and only possible by hand-outs from Westminster
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Newton_Invented_Gravity,

06/01/2009 19:23:20
If the system for handing them out is so arbitrary, then where is the prestige in having them?
The writer fails to come to the most obvious conclusion: That the honors system is completely worthless.
The real honor that the likes of Hoy, or Holmes got was their victory in sporting competition. Everything else is just vanity.

 

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