'Give Olympians an honour'.

CALLS have been made for two Welsh star performers at the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics to be honoured by the Queen.

Olympic and world cycle champ Nicole Cooke Nicole Cooke (born April 13, 1983) is a Welsh road bicycle racer.

Cooke was born in Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, and began cycling at an early age. At the age of sixteen she won her first senior national title. , from Wick, and 11-time Paralympic swimming gold medallist David Roberts There are several people named David Roberts:

David Roberts (banker), the Executive Director of Barclays plc
David Roberts (engineer), a designer at Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s who invented the caterpillar track.

, from Llantwit Fardre Llantwit Fardre is a small town/village situated on the A473 near the Welsh town of Pontypridd. It is less than a few miles from Beddau. The village was also known for a time as Newtown Llantwit but the name derives from the Welsh Llanilltud Faerdref, meaning , should respectively be made a Dame and a Knight, according to Welsh Assembly politicians.

Paul Davies, Shadow Culture Minister in the Welsh Assembly, said he hoped Cooke would be rewarded "appropriately" for her "tremendous performance" along with Roberts whose golds at three successive Olympic games is "a sensational achievement".

They are both "incredible role models", said Liberal Democrat Culture spokeswoman Eleanor Burnham.

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GOLDEN GREATS: Nicole Cooke on her homecoming to Wick and, below, Paralympian Dave Roberts

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Publication:	South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date:	Nov 11, 2008
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