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To: Prime Minister Theresa May
Grant a Knighthood to Usain Bolt
Following this years incredibly successful Rio Olympics for the GB team, which will probably lead to knighthoods and dame hoods for the likes of cyclists Laura Trott and Jason Kenny, athletes Mo Farrer and Jess Ennis-Hill, tennis player Andy Murray and others in the GB team, I call on the Prime Minister to grant a knighthood to Commonwealth great Usain Bolt.
Why is this important?
We have a great tradition in this country of granting honours to Commonwealth sporting greats, Sir Garfield Sobers and Viv Richards in West Indian cricket and Sir Graham Henry and Gordon Tietjens in New Zealand rugby for example. At a time when the sport of athletics has been blighted by doping and other scandals, Usain Bolt has been a shining light of clean athletics in a blue riband event. His achievement on Monday morning 15 August 2016 in achieving an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100metres final in Rio was outstanding, and he is still likely to achieve medals in the 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay. He has announced that this will be his last Olympic Games. It is time for the UK Government to honour the achievement and outstanding contribution to world sport of this great Olympian and grant him a knighthood in the next Honours List.
