They may have been the golden couple of two Olympic Games but when they married, it was in a quiet, private ceremony. What makes Jason and Laura special is they don’t think they are. They are the boy and girl next door, grown up to make a heartwarming success of their young lives. It’s the very least they deserve for leading Team GB’s gold rush. Mr and Mrs Kenny – they got married in September – haven’t just earned their gongs. It takes years of sacrifice and monastic abstinence, during which you need permission to have chips with your dinner.Īnd it takes countless hours of training so hard it makes you throw up into a bucket through exhaustion. To become an Olympic cycling champion, you don’t just hop aboard a Raleigh Chopper, pedal round the block for half a dozen laps and wait for someone famous to hang the bullion around your neck. The case is as clear as night and day – or Knight and Dame. If Jason’s record-equalling six Olympic titles and Laura’s four visits to the top of the podium are not worthy of the top gongs in our honours system, then just how many does it take? Jason and Laura Kenny are the most decorated couple in British Olympic history.Īnd when their stockpile of gold medals reached double figures in Rio, it was pure Mills and Boon as they sealed it with a kiss. They are cycling’s golden couple, the Posh and Becks of the velodrome. Ms Abbott will receive her new title alongside Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, 56. The self-described staunch republican will have to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace where royal protocol means she should kneel before the monarch. It’s a giant (little G) feat, but also a feat for a pitcher on the San Francisco Giants.Away from the honours list, a number of Labour bigwigs are set to be appointed to the historic group the Privy Council, including Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, 63. I don’t believe I’ve ever had one of these, but I understand it’s a Southern dessert. My parents were in town recently and they got to see it. There’s a Matisse exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 29. Assuming the pattern holds, the next one will be about Aphrodite. The other two were about Artemis and Ares, so all of them so far have been “A” gods. I’m now up to three “Hades”-related clues since I began playing the game last year. However distracting it might have been, I decided to keep this clue because a) I liked it, and b) I wasn’t sure when GAS OVEN would come up again since it’s never appeared in any of my puzzles until now. One of my test-solvers mentioned to me that whenever you have a theme full of wacky phrases, semi-long answers with pun-style clues can be sort of distracting if they run in the same direction because you might think they’re involved in the theme. 121A: is T USH ORDERS, changing the first letter of r ush orders.
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