After taking the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Tom Pidcock features on this year's New Year Honours List.
Tom Pidcock wraps up his 2021 with an MBE making the Queen's New Year Honours, joining 27 other Olympic athletes. The 2022 Honours List recognises 12 members of the GB Cycling Team after their success at the 2021 Olympics. An MBE is an order of the British Empire award and is ranked third after an OBE and CBE. MBE stands for Member of the Order of the British Empire and is normally awarded to someone in the Honours List for making a positive impact in their area of work.
New Year Honours awarded to the Great Britain Cycling Team:Sir Jason Kenny
Dame Laura Kenny
Jody Cundy CBE
Stephen Park CBE
Kadeena Cox OBE
Tom Pidcock MBE
Matt Rotherham MBE
Beth Shriever MBE
Jaco van Gass MBE
Matt Walls MBE
Ben Watson MBE
Charlotte Worthington MBE
Tom Pidcock had an amazing 2021 season on the mountain bike with a 5th place in Albstadt, a win against Mathieu Van Der Poel in Nove Mesto and an incredible performance at the Tokyo Olympics. We hope to see more of Tom at the MTB World Cups next year and can't wait to see if he can match 2021.
Why not Sir Steve Peat or Dame Rachel Atherton?
I thought that, but it looks like the Olympics are the criteria for getting a medal.......
One gets the impression that Downhill isn't viewed as 'proper cycling' by those who pick these awards. There is a massive snobbery factor in cycling.....
Steve has set up charities and youth programs to help improve the facilities available to many generations after him and to come. British mountain biking is much stronger for Peaty and it would be nice to see that recognised in a future honours.
Gold, this will whoosh over so many heads
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat FACT check
"A tin foil hat is a hat made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil (commonly called "tin foil"), or a piece of conventional headgear lined with foil, often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading. The notion of wearing homemade headgear for such protection has become a popular stereotype and byword for paranoia, persecutory delusions, and belief in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, as well as a popular derogative to shame out holders of dissident views, similar to former days' disciplinary use of a dunce cap.
"Tin foil" is a common misnomer for aluminium foil; packaging metal foil was formerly made out of tin before it was replaced with aluminium.[1] "
@ilovedust Blair has been made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. That is awarded directly by the Queen. It is the oldest and most senior British Order of *Chivalry*
*irony overload.
so the bigger question is, what does a title from an outmoded and failed monarchy mean, anyways?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s7n1
#whatempire
...Sorry about that, by the way.
The Palace recognised Beth, so its not because they don't care about their bmx backgrounds.
yes i'm Canadian i've been living under its oppression my whole life.
just because a constitution "restricts" the queens power now doesn't mean the dozens of royalty before her AND the current UK government isn't still hell bent on colonialism!
you think that Bermuda, Gibraltar, Falkland islands, Turks and Caicos etc etc all want to be a part of this BS?
Look at how many of them are trying to get out from under that crushing colonial hammer...
can you imagine having to fly a flag on your island that shows you and your family that you were enslaved and used to make the UK piles of cash?
The French were still brutal, along with the Dutch and Spanish.
all that said the Dutch and French colonies are and well continue to seek independence , its only natural especially when they see their neighbouring islands getting it
1. Boer concentration camps.
During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the British rounded up around a sixth of the Boer population - mainly women and children - and detained them in camps, which were overcrowded and prone to outbreaks of disease, with scant food rations.
Of the 107,000 people interned in the camps, 27,927 Boers died, along with an unknown number of black Africans.
2. Amritsar massacre
When peaceful protesters defied a government order and demonstrated against British colonial rule in Amritsar, India, on 13 April 1919, they were blocked inside the walled Jallianwala Gardens and fired upon by Gurkha soldiers.
The soldiers, under the orders of Brigadier Reginald Dyer, kept firing until they ran out of ammunition, killing between 379 and 1,000 protesters and injuring another 1,100 within 10 minutes.
Brigadier Dyer was later lauded a hero by the British public, who raised £26,000 for him as a thank you.
3. Partitioning of India
In 1947, Cyril Radcliffe was tasked with drawing the border between India and the newly created state of Pakistan over the course of a single lunch.
After Cyril Radcliffe split the subcontinent along religious lines, uprooting over 10 million people, Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India were forced to escape their homes as the situation quickly descended into violence.
Some estimates suggest up to one million people lost their lives in sectarian killings.
4. Mau Mau Uprising
Thousands of elderly Kenyans, who claim British colonial forces mistreated, raped and tortured them during the Mau Mau Uprising (1951-1960), have launched a £200m damages claim against the UK Government.
Members of the Kikuyu tribe were detained in camps, since described as "Britain's gulags" or concentration camps, where they allege they were systematically tortured and suffered serious sexual assault.
Estimates of the deaths vary widely: historian David Anderson estimates there were 20,000, whereas Caroline Elkins believes up to 100,000 could have died.
5. Famines in India
Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while it was under the control of the British Empire, as millions of tons of wheat were exported to Britain as famine raged in India.
In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal.
Talking about the Bengal famine in 1943, Churchill said: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”