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2012 bid team honoured
The senior members of the bid team for the 2012 Olympics have led the sporting honours announced for the New Year.
Chair of the London 2012 organising committee (LOGOG), Seb Coe, along with chief executive Keith Mills and the ex-chair of the British Olympic Association, Craig Reedie will all receive knighthoods for services to sport.
Coe, who is already a life peer and an OBE, will now be known as Lord Coe KBE.
In total, the London bid team gained three knighthoods, two CBEs, three OBEs and six MBEs, including awards for communications director, Mike Lee and marketing director, David Magliano.
England’s Ashes-winning cricketers were appointed MBEs. Captain Michael Vaughan and coach Duncan Fletcher were made OBEs.
Other sporting awards were made to Alan Mills (CBE), who retired as the Wimbledon tournament’s referee last year, while Welsh rugby union coach Mike Ruddock becomes an OBE.
Other individuals from the leisure industry acknowledged in the honours include; Elizabeth Forgan, chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund for services to heritage; chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Anthony Hall, for services to ballet; and Andrew Scott, the head of the National Railway Museum in York, for services to museums.
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