Olympic Medals for Athletes.

Should our 2012 Olympic champions be given more of the awards to be given in The New Year's Honours List for their service to the Country this year?

"Well, probably, yes, and surely, even our senior civil servants just might accept that our sports men and women have done, and been seen to have done, an enormous amount of good for our Nation this summer.  Therefore, isn't it only fitting that their achievements should be heralded before those of others?"

We shall not host another Olympic Games for some considerable time.  We've now held three Summer Olympic Games in the 1900's, the first in London in 1908, at the White City Stadium.  This was followed by the 1948 Austerity Games, so called because of the difficult post-war economic times and the continuation of the programme of food rationing. Now in this year of 2012, the Happy Games, producing so many wonderful sporting moments and a not inconsiderable collection of medals;  surely, we cannot hope for a further opportunity to organise the Games  for some
unimaginable time?   We have not the  slightest inkling of how long a period this may end up  being?

Therefore, in honour of our best ever Olympic medal tally,  our Olympic Champions should surely and certainly, be in line for the major share of the awards to be granted in the next New Year's honour's list.

As a Nation, we should now give, and be seen to give, our best efforts towards achieving this end game; namely, of  applauding our best Olympic sports people, for their best efforts this year.

"They've done us proud, haven 't they, and their success should not be overlooked in favour of other, possibly less timely necessary but still glorious, achievements in other spheres?"  and it's me, Daisy, who's saying this.

2012 is, without doubt, a year of outstanding brilliance, wouldn't you agree?  HM The Queen has celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, which was a national-fest of monumental proportion, Royalty,
regalia and terrific people-participation delight.

Andy Murray won Wimbledon......and then the thrill of the Olympic Games.

Surely, not since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977,  during HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee year, have we felt such a swell of triumphant and overwhelming enthusiasm for our sporting heroes?

Of course, there have been other memorable sporting moments but Virginia Wade's Wimbledon moment, in 1977,  resonates madly with me; my second baby was born that year too, making it a very special time for me.

Daisy