First-class honour for Fenland's golden boy

Fenland's Jonnie Peacock delivered gold in the Paralympic Games - and Royal Mail swiftly returned the compliment with their own seal of approval.
The teenager's home village of Doddington now proudly boasts a gold post box. A red post box has been changed to a winning colour in the city, town or village of every Team GB athlete who triumphed at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to honour their feats and the Royal Mail have even produced a useful post box finder [http://www.goldpostboxes.com/] mapping out where you can see these golden monuments.

Here's Jonnie: Peacock kisses his gold medal
Getty Images via @daylife

Animated villagers were clogging the pavement outside the Post Office when box changed colour as journalists and camera crews grabbed anyone willing to give a suitable quote. They were well and truly in the spotlight and rumour has it that the village Post Office is now doing a roaring trade in commemorative stamps [http://shop.royalmail.com/paralympicsgb-gold-medal-winner-miniature-sheets/paralympicsgb-gold-medal-winner-miniature-sheet-jonnie-peacock/invt/sku00008082/].
Doddingtonians are rightly excited about Jonnie's achievement and will no doubt be hoping he continues to put their village on the map with more first-class performances as he addresses even more personal targets [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19587658] such as running the 100m in 10.6sec. If he was an American, would he be looking for the zip code? Oh, please yourselves. Anyway, he is aiming to run faster next year - and I'm sure he'll post some quick times as he stamps his authority on the track. [Enough of these postal puns - Ed].
Jonnie, 19, who had to have part of his right leg amputated as a child [see previous post]  triumphed in the T44 100 metres as more than six million viewers tuned in to watch when he comfortably saw off the challenge of fourth-placed Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorious.
A golden moment worthy of a golden post box. Pity the quality of that hastily-writtten cardboard sign above his picture doesn't quite match Jonnie's success.
DID YOU KNOW? The coach of Fenland's very own dashing blade, Dan Pfaff, is the only man to have mentored 100m gold medalists at the Olympics and Paralympics. He was Donovan Bailey's coach in 1996 when the Canadian won in Atlanta.

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