Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott, Mo Farah and David Weir are among the Olympians recognised in the 2013 New Year Honours. But Weir has told a newspaper that he feels Paralympians are sometimes left out, because they are not in the public eye.
Olympic champion Laura Trott, 20, has received an OBE in the New Year Honours for her services to cycling.
Trott won a double Olympic gold at London 2012 and is the World and European Team Pursuit and Omnium Champion.
She began cycling with her mother, who took up the sport to lose weight.
The unlicensed events unfolded on Saturday night at Clapham Common and Tooting Bec Common.
A 37 year old man who was taken to hospital after getting into difficulty in a stretch of water near Maidenhead has died.
Jonty Bravery, who is mentally ill, has been jailed for 15 years after throwing a six year old boy from the Tate modern balcony.