“I’m both delighted and proud that members of the bid team have been acknowledged in this year’s Honours List,” said Coe. “Every member of the London 2012 team played a crucial role in taking the bid across the line in July. I am delighted that our efforts have been recognised in this way.”
Coe will now be known as Lord Coe KBE rather than Lord Sir Sebastian Coe. He had received a peerage in 2000, an honour for services to politics rather than for the two Olympic gold medals and world records he achieved on the running track.

 

Particularly popular will be the recognition that Mills and Reedie have received. They will now be known as Sir Keith Mills and Sir Craig Reedie.

 

Mills was appointed by Coe’s predecessor Barbara Cassani and quickly got to grips with the intricacies of Olympic politics by following an exhausting schedule of travelling around the world while at the same time running the bid office in Canary Wharf. He since stepped down to become vice-chairman but is expected to retain a key role in recruiting sponsors during the build-up to the Games.

 

“I am very honoured and I would like to think I will share this recognition with a fantastic team, because without a spectacular team none of this could have been achieved,” said Mills.

 

Reedie, who was made a CBE in 1999, stepped down as chairman of the BOA in October but is still a member of the International Olympic Committee and a senior figure within the World Anti-Doping Agency.

 

When London was awarded the Olympics in July it was the successful culmination of a campaign started by the Scot more than 10 years ago.

 

The former head of international badminton joined the IOC in 1994, a year after Manchester had bid unsuccessfully for the 2000 Olympics awarded to Sydney. A subsequent further failed bid by the North West city for the 2004 Olympics confirmed Reedie's belief that only London could ever persuade the IOC to host the games in Britain again.

 

“This is a wonderful end to a wonderful year,” said Reedie. “I have enjoyed 17 years with the BOA - 13 as chairman - and I’m sure that this honour has much to do with their dedicated and professional staff.

 

“Olympic sport has enjoyed great success in the last few years at both summer and winter Games and the work of the BOA and the London 2012 team resulted in winning the biggest prize of all - the 2012 Olympic Games.

 

“It has been a thrill to have been a part of those successes, which will benefit sport in our country for years to come.”
There is also a CBE for Simon Clegg, the chief executive of the BOA. “I’m greatly flattered that the contribution that I and many others in the BOA have made, has been recognised in this way,” said Clegg, who had received an OBE in 2001.

 

There is also a CBE for Dick Palmer, one of the technical masterminds behind the bid. An MBE goes to David Magliano, the marketing chief also recruited by Cassani, who helped mastermind London’s acclaimed presentation at the Singapore IOC convention, while Mike Lee, who was the bid's communications director, gets an OBE.

 

The other awards went to: Mike Power, 2012’s chief operating officer (OBE); Jon Armstrong, co-ordinator of the nations and regions group (MBE); Ayesha Qureshi, 2012’s community relations officer (MBE); Richard Sumray, chairman of the London 2012 Forum (MBE); Neil Wood, 2012’s finance director (MBE).

 

Two civil servants who worked in the Olympic Games Unit at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Catharina Reynolds (OBE), and Patricia Hindley (MBE) were also honoured.