Age: 50
Title: Chairman, London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
Pro: The Olympic gold medal-winning middle-distance runner tirelessly lobbied IOC members to award London the 2012 Summer Games. He even brought Tony Blair along for some last minute wrangling and London upset Paris to win the bid.
Con: Costs are already running over budget, and the recently revealed Olympic logo, a mishmash of jagged shapes that cost $800,000 to design, sparked fury and befuddlement. An animated web version of the logo triggers seizures; one person said it looked like "some sort of comical sex act between 'the Simpsons.'"