31-12-2021, 08:40 AM
See that Lisa Carrington & Sophie Pascoe are now Dames.
Never been keen on active sportspeople getting the top honours. Why can't they wait until they retire? Didn't use to happen as much, but then the Poms started handing them out to pretty much anyone who won a gold medal and it's become de rigueur.
Athletics great Peter Snell didn't get knighted until 2007. He was in his late 60s. Pascoe is 28.
Never been keen on active sportspeople getting the top honours. Why can't they wait until they retire? Didn't use to happen as much, but then the Poms started handing them out to pretty much anyone who won a gold medal and it's become de rigueur.
Athletics great Peter Snell didn't get knighted until 2007. He was in his late 60s. Pascoe is 28.