Lord Moynihan, winner of an Olympic silver medal for rowing in 1980, urged organisers to "focus on a few, well-targeted and clearly-defined sports legacy objectives".
Another MBE recipient is Scotland's Olympic silver medal-winning rower Katherine Grainger.
The 26-year-old from Tavistock, who won an Olympic silver medal in 2008, said her journey to the top of the sport would not have been possible without the help of her former swimming coach Archie Brew, who she sees as her own unsung hero.
Hamm is the only American man to win the world and Olympic titles, in 2003 and 2004, and he led the team to a silver medal in Athens, its first Olympic team medal in 20 years.
Adam Nelson is an Olympic shot putter who won the silver medal at the 2000 games.
Ms. BOEGERS: While we didn't make it all the way to the finish line that we have an opportunity to celebrate, it's almost like the silver medal at an Olympic - and if we're denied that and it's just a charade and a pretence, the Obama campaign is going to be in trouble because people are going to leave here angry.
English copper mine owners introduced soccer to Spain in the late 19th century, and the national team achieved its first glory when it won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.
The island nation's first Olympic medal was won by Duncan White 60 years ago when he won the silver medal in the 400m men's hurdles event at the London Olympics in 1948.
Fleming was part of three Olympic coaching staffs for Canada, winning a silver medal in Albertville in 1992 and a gold medal in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Former Olympic champion Chris Boardman watched Martyn's silver and gold medal rides in Minsk in Belarus on Thursday.
Earlier, Katrin Wagner-Augustin of Germany lost out on her second attempt at becoming the second woman in Olympic history to win a gold medal at four consecutive Games after helping take silver in the women's kayak four (K4).
As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.
Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen claimed the silver medal but was 12.2 seconds adrift of Jay, who was making his Olympic debut.
Leo Manzano of the U.S. made a serious kick on the homestretch to claim the silver medal in the men's 1, 500-meter final Tuesday night at Olympic Stadium.
This South American country has never lacked good cyclists, as the silver medal won by Rigoberto Uran in the Men's Road Race at the 2012 Olympic Games in London proved.
Wood coached Simon Archer and Joanne Goode to Britain's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze in Sydney 2000, and Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms to their silver in Athens in 2004.
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