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Honours To Wrong People?
Plans are afoot to lavish honours on Team GBs medalists in Rio. They did very well of course, but they're blessed with great ability, do what they love most, have a fine life, earn millions and get pampered and revered. I just don't feel their contributions to life is a patch on those of doctors, nurses, soldiers, sailors, airmen, paramedics....and I consider them all way more deserving. What do you think?
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What Team GB have done is amazing, but I don't think people should get a medal for winning a medal. Yes, they've had years of hard work and sacrifice to get where they are, but they did it for themselves, not the country.
19:17 Mon 22nd Aug 2016
//They did very well of course, but they're blessed with great ability,///
That in itself is not enough to become world beaters, one has to add total devotion, single mindedness, hardship physical and financial, passing through that pain barrier, day after day.
These guys deserve honours.
\\\\doctors, nurses, soldiers, sailors, airmen, paramedics....\\\
These are "ten a penny", tens of thousands of them....no big deal & no need of honours unless you have the same attributes as the people that I have mentioned above.
That in itself is not enough to become world beaters, one has to add total devotion, single mindedness, hardship physical and financial, passing through that pain barrier, day after day.
These guys deserve honours.
\\\\doctors, nurses, soldiers, sailors, airmen, paramedics....\\\
These are "ten a penny", tens of thousands of them....no big deal & no need of honours unless you have the same attributes as the people that I have mentioned above.
I think it says a lot about the honours system that a person who has made great sacrifices for 4 years, getting up at dawn to maybe pound the streets, put the lengths in in the swimming pool or cycle for miles in all weather conditions (until you are physically sick) to achieve a medal at the Olympics will probably end up with the same gong as Samantha Cameron's hairdresser!!
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