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| Olympians to get own honours list, says No 10 | Olympians to get own honours list, says No 10 |
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| Britain's Olympians and Paralympians are to get their own honours list, rather than simply being included in the New Year's Honours. | Britain's Olympians and Paralympians are to get their own honours list, rather than simply being included in the New Year's Honours. |
| David Cameron has decided to place awards arising from the London 2012 Games outside the usual system. | David Cameron has decided to place awards arising from the London 2012 Games outside the usual system. |
| The move is to enable the list to reflect the scale of achievement by British athletes. | The move is to enable the list to reflect the scale of achievement by British athletes. |
| Under normal Whitehall rules, there is one knighthood for a sports person, with four CBEs, 68 OBEs and 134 MBEs. | |
| But the 29 gold medals at the London games and more than 100 medals so far at the Paralympics has raised expectations that champions such as Jessica Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, Ben Ainslie and Mo Farah will be recognised. | |
| Speculation that Britain's Olympic heroes would miss out on honours out was triggered last month by a senior civil servant, Jonathan Stephens, who told the BBC medals would not mean an "automatic gong". | |
| Honours are decided by a Whitehall committee and not the government. | |
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