Arise, Sir Chris Hoy!

robbarker
robbarker Posts: 1,367
edited December 2008 in The bottom bracket
And very well deserved too.

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  • richa
    richa Posts: 1,632
    Hoy's mother, Carol, was appointed a MBE for her work as a specialist nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.
    Rich
  • ubatuba
    ubatuba Posts: 7
    Great news.
  • NWLondoner
    NWLondoner Posts: 2,047
    Well deserved.

    here is the list in full

    Olympians

    Ed Clancy MBE
    Nicole Cooke MBE
    Chris Hoy Sir (KBE)
    Jason Kenny MBE
    Paul Manning MBE
    Victoria Pendleton MBE
    Rebecca Romero MBE
    Jamie Staff MBE
    Geraint Thomas MBE
    Bradley Wiggins CBE

    Paralympians
    Mark Bristow MBE
    Jody Cundy MBE
    Ellen Hunter (tandem pilot) OBE
    Anthony Kappes MBE
    Darren Kenny OBE
    Aileen McGlynn OBE
    Simon Richardson MBE
    David Stone MBE
    Barney Storey (tandem pilot) MBE
    Sarah Storey OBE

    Performance Director
    David Brailsford CBE
  • snakehips
    snakehips Posts: 2,272
    Excellent

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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Mark Cavendish's performances on the road, outside of the Olympics, surely rated an MBE. Two Giro stages and four Tour stages outstripped anything any other British rider has done in any one year. Hopefully 2009 will see him perform just as well or even better, and, without the distraction of the Olympics, he will receive the honour he is rightly due.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I can't believe Cav got nowt considering a drug cheat got an MBE :(

    Anyhoo, well done the the other cyclists :)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy Fact #1

    When Sir Chris Hoy pedals, his bike does not move, it is the earth that rotates.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy Fact #2
    During a powercut across the whole of Manchester, an engineer connected Sir Chris Hoy's turbo trainer to a turbine at the powerstation. The resulting power from his one hour training session was enough to light up the entire North West for seven weeks.
  • Captain Fagor
    Captain Fagor Posts: 739
    robbarker wrote:
    And very well deserved too.

    Disagree 100%. Knighthoods should be reserved for people who make significant contributions to genuinely improving the quality of other peoples' lives in the long term, not just their own.
    RichA wrote:
    Hoy's mother, Carol, was appointed a MBE for her work as a specialist nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.

    Probably a far more deserving recipient of recognition, IMHO.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Captain Fagor wrote:
    robbarker wrote:
    And very well deserved too.

    Disagree 100%. Knighthoods should be reserved for people who make significant contributions to genuinely improving the quality of other peoples' lives in the long term, not just their own.

    Hoy has made a very positive impression amongst many many people I know, young and old.
    Besides he has inspired me to keep riding hard and has in effect improved my quality of life long-term.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy Fact #3

    Faster than a speeding bullet ... more powerful than a locomotive ... able to leap tall buildings in a single bound... yes, these are some of Sir Chris Hoy's warm-up exercises.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy Fact #4

    There are no steroids in match sprinting. Just cyclists Sir Chris Hoy has breathed on.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy once challenged Lance Armstrong in a "Who has more testicles?" contest. Sir Chris Hoy won by 5.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang is roughly equal to 1SCHSS

    (Sir Chris Hoy Standing Start)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Some people wear Superman pyjamas. Superman wears Sir Chris Hoy pyjamas.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Sir Chris Hoy recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull.
  • Rich-Ti
    Rich-Ti Posts: 1,831
    Do you guys all sleep with (Sir) Chris Hoy teddies at night too? Get a grip - he's good but this is making me sick :roll: :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Oooh, can you get those?
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,741
    Chris Hoy once got in touch with his feminine side

    .. and instantly got it pregnant
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    The Laws of Physics don't apply to Chris Hoy, Physics applies by the Laws of Chris Hoy
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Manchester Velodrome was originally a 100 metre track. Every time Chris Hoy does a standing start the track stretches by a metre. By 2012 it will be a 3km track.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    CERN don't need a Large Hadron Collider, they just need to set Chris Hoy and Jamie Staff off in opposie directions in a velodrome.
  • sloboy
    sloboy Posts: 1,139
    Rich-Ti wrote:
    Do you guys all sleep with (Sir) Chris Hoy teddies at night too? Get a grip - he's good but this is making me sick :roll: :lol:

    I can see what you mean, Rich, but I'm on the side on the Hoyists here. Having seen all of the World Cup meets in Manchester from Athens to Beijing you get to see what a terrific effort Hoy has made converting from the kilo to the other sprint events - and in the Keirin, he's pretty much redefined the event to suit his strengths. The way he rides it and wins it just shouldn't be possible, bu he's now very rarely beaten.

    He is an all time great in track cycling - his record speaks to that quite simply, but I think the manner in which he's done it - with quiet dignity and an absolute unremitting competitive focus - captures values that the British have held out as representing the national character at its best.

    In this, I rate both Hoy and Ainslie as inspirational characters with lessons about dedication and a fieresome will to succeed in their goals that can be widely applied in life.

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