Our Olympic team are hailed as Heroes and winners are to be rewarded with cash and knighthoods etc.?

Question

Are our troops not the real heroes who are not given a homecoming by the PM nor any Royal honours. Why is that?

Answer 1

I guess Great Britain are not used to winning medals and this being their most successful games ever they are going all out to celebrate their champions.

I dont agree with athletes being treated like heroes when their servicemen are fighting wars and dying...

Answer 2

They did us proud as I'm hoping it's shining a light for our sports. I hope that we can forget about the joke of football with overpaid spoilt chavs who win nothing and their tarty orange thick girlfriends being an influence on young people, and proper sports people who try hard will be more in the headlines.

I think a real hero is a person who helps others and expects nothing in return.

A knighthood doesn't really mean anything anymore anyway. Can you imagine Elton John on a horse and fighting?

Still, I would rather see those real sports people called Sir, than the awful beckhams getting it and milking it for all it's worth by selling the story to celeb magazines.

Answer 3

KnightHoods are not given away to any ordinary people.

Soldiers do get Knighted too and so do doctors, tv news reporters , athletes etc.

Knighthoods are given to people who acheive feats not achieved by any one else. In other words, you have to do something truly extraordinary in order to be recognised and Knighted.

Sir Alan Sugar got Knighted for his excellent contribution to business.

Sir Paul Mccartney (from the beatles) got Knighted for his contribution to music.

Sir Steve Redgrave got Knighted for winning 5 golds 5 times in a row in 5 Olympics in Rowing.

Sir Trevor Mcdonald got Knighted for his services to media and news.

And if you are wondering whether our soldiers get Knighted or not, well heres the list:

Sovereign: HM The Queen

Grand Master: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

Knights and Dames Grand Cros:

Sir Henry Fox, GBE (1974)

Sir Lindsay Ring, GBE (1975)

Sir Robin Gillett, Bt, GBE, RD (1976)

Sir Robert Mark, GBE, QPM (1977)

Sir Peter White, GBE (1977)

Sir Ronald Davison, GBE, CMG, QC (1978)

Sir Peter Le Cheminant, GBE, KCB, DFC (1978)

Sir Kan Yuet Keung, GBE, JP (1979)

Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC (1980)

Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, GBE, TD, DCL, DL (1980)

Sir Robert Freer, GBE, KCB (1981)

Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE (1981)

Sir Anthony Morton, GBE, KCB, DL (1982)

Sir Anthony Jolliffe, GBE, DL (1982)

Sir Alan Traill, GBE, QSO (1984)

ACM Sir John Gingell, GBE, KCB, KCVO (1984)

Sir Frank Kitson, GBE, KCB, MC (and bar), DL (1985)

Sir David Rowe-Ham, GBE (1986)

Sir Greville Spratt, GBE, TD, DL (1987)

Sir Kenneth Newman, GBE, QPM (1987)

Sir Kenneth Berrill, GBE, KCB (1988)

Sir Christopher Collett, GBE, FRA (1988)

Sir Hugh Bidwell, GBE (1989)

Sir Sze Yuen Chung, GBE, GBM (1989)

Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, GBE, QC (1989)

ACM Sir David Harcourt-Smith, GBE, KCB, DFC (1989)

Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, GBE, KCB (1989)

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Alliance, GBE (1989)

Sir Alexander Graham, GBE (1990)

FM The Lord Vincent of Coleshill, GBE, KCB, DSO (1990)

Admiral Sir Jeremy Black, GBE, KCB, DSO (1991)

ACM Sir Patrick Hine, GCB, GBE (1991)

Sir Brian Jenkins, GBE, FCA (1991)

Sir Anthony Skingsley, GBE, KCB (1992)

Sir Francis McWilliams, GBE, FREng (1992)

Sir Kenneth Eaton, GBE, KCB, FEng, FIEE (1994)

ACM Sir William Wratten, GBE, CB, AFC (1998)

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Rothschild, OM, GBE, FBA (1998)

Sir Stephen Brown (judge), GBE (1999)

The Rt. Hon. The Lord George, GBE, PC, DL (2000)

ACM Sir Anthony Bagnall, GBE, KCB, FRAeS (2002)

Sir Michael Perry, GBE (2002)

Sir Ronald Waterhouse, GBE, QC (2002)

Sir Cyril Taylor, GBE (2004)

The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC (2005)

So in other words soldiers get Knighted more than athletes, musicians, tv reporters, businessmen etc.

And I conclude again that KnightHoods are not given to any ordinary person. Only a Person who aquires an extraordinary feat does.

If a person from Britain breaks the world record for 100m and 200m  (set by Usain Bolt currently), he or she will get Knighted Hands Down!

I hope this answers your question

Answer 4

They got their rewards: A medal for winning etc. Why on earth should they be honoured again. They shouldn't be regarded as hero's. That name should only be used for people who put their lives in danger for others: ie Servicemen in battle, police, firemen/women, ambulance personnel, lifeboat people who go to sea in all weathers, unpaid. Certainly not sports people. Alot of them who don't have a normal job, but live off others while they train. But well done to the British team.

Answer 5

I'm not from the UK, but I agree with you. What did they do that was so heroic? They shouldn't be the standard of heroism.

The troops face danger daily and protect your country and the world from danger. They deserve the cash and medals - though that wouldn't even be good enough.

Answer 6

Agreed. Olympics athletes are just really good at what they do. Nothing more, nothing less.

Answer 7

Heroes are heroes to some and none to others. It's a point of view.

Besides, the gov, uses the excuse to call a group of people heroes if it will increase the morale of the masses.