Arise, Sir G? Geraint Thomas tipped for knighthood

Twiggy would be a pariah as a modern day woman as all the Facebook fatties would mobilise against her.

Made me laugh, all the talk in various sporting forums about the relative merits of sports folk...and Twiggy gets one of the highest gongs on offer for being a professional clothes horse and, err, not a lot else ☺

SNAFU!

Just an OBE, should've used the photoshopped image on the application.

Meh, sportspersons getting a big gong for doing their job well, sorry but it's bollocks. Maybe after they've done something for the country as a whole, helped set up a cycle organisation that gets kids/adults cycling, or like Chris Boardman, is actually doing something massively positive not just for cycling safety but health of the nation and is involved in community work post career, that deserves a gong.

it's just getting fricking ridiculous now, they're even talking about Alistair Cook getting a knighthood ffs!

As i wrote in the guardian comments, there's an 88yr old gent from my home city who has world champion honours both as a player and a coach at International level, one team club player and captain for most of his15 year pro career, never sent from the field of play, set up a hugely successful amateur club in his home city, brought through and trained thousands of kids, coached his county side, always involved in charitable events.

He's given massively over 40 years, not just to the city but beyond and has just being nominated for a hall of fame place within the sport he played at.

Johnny Whiteley, Hull RLFC & Gt Britain rugby league player and Gt. Britain, & Yorkshire coach, instigator of the West Hull amateur club and all round good egg, was awarded an MBE in 2005!

It's all about what's/who's popular, it's sod all to do with what you've given in the wider sense beyond your job, never mind what you actually achieved.

If imports like Mo (my coach was dodgy) Farah can gets knighted then why not Froome?

My view re such recognition is that, in the case of sports people, it should wait until they retire from top-level competition. They'll still be young and those doling out the honours will have more perspective. For Andy Murray his knighthood almost seems a jinx and Wiggo's gong hardly seems to have done him much good. I'd say for Thomas it's 50/50 at the moment, but if he becomes a Sir then Froome should absolutely be too (and despite all the showbiz BS, if those two are knighted then David Beckham really, really ought to be).

Froome has represented the UK at the pinnacle of his sport. He is hands down the greatest Grand Tour cyclist of the modern age and arguably one of the all time greats. I don't care if he was born and raised in Timbuktu, Greenland or the International Space Station. He has represented this country and if any sportsman deserves a KBE, it's him.

Kenyans are eligible for knighthoods too and, as members of the Commonwealth, can use the title "Sir", so it doesn't matter what your opinion is on Froome's nationality in relation to being honoured.

Perhaps you can tell a man's country by the flag on his bike rather than a passport of convenience?

Not to detract from the deserved Thomas, as one of the few men who have held all three GT jerseys simultaneously, Froome must be sounded out for a knighthood: this is the greatest acheivement of any British cyclist....and yes, if he holds the passport, he is British.   

Not to detract from the deserved Thomas, as one of the few men who have held all three GT jerseys simultaneously, Froome must be sounded out for a knighthood: this is the greatest acheivement of any British cyclist....and yes, if he holds the passport, he is British.   

Maybe he turned it down.

Maybe he turned it down.

Gotta to be Froome

That Welsh flag is very poorly Photoshopped.

Must try harder road.cc!

I think the important question is what Froome has done for the UK, excluding trade colour victories.

Poor Froome. More worthy than Wiggins is being of late and a more impressive resume that Thomas.