Why is daley thompson not a sir

At the last one [in Rio], we were unbelievable again. But occasionally you have to rethink and change things. You have to keep people hungry. So many people I came up with pissed it all away. Thompson squeezed everything out of his extraordinary talent. He might have had a fast mouth and a swagger but he trained remorselessly. He was the only reason I trained eight hours a day. You have to spend three times longer training than anybody else.

Would he have done the same if he was aged 22 today? To be the best in the world is a nice little accolade but with my last world record I thought I was going to do better than that. Most people do two or three PBs. He was a phenomenal athlete. My hero. Did he speak much to the American?

He was really forthcoming. Thompson regards himself as the best decathlete of all time. Who is No 2? Ashton Eaton [the and Olympic champion from the US] is not bad. But back in the old days a bloke called Bob Mathias [who won successive Olympics in and , also of the US] was terrific.

As a double Olympic champion himself why does Thompson think he was never knighted? They want to call me sir. For me, the saving grace is always the bloke out there, in the street, likes me.

Where did he stand on Brexit? I think we live in the best country in the world. A shithole. Nobody wanted to live there but many people were a lot worse off than us. Our world changed a little faster than yours.

Where you guys lived, racism was much more overt. The sport, most would agree, is less engaging for it. People still want to see people competing against each other, rivalries, and that is what athletics can do.

Knowing she beat her will help Kat in Tokyo. Those moments are what champions are about — knowing that after years of training you can perform when it matters. Kat did that. It is a whole class above the worlds and there are women who have gone faster. And he has always had a way of finding it at the right time, be that in a stadium he can barely remember for a gold medal he no longer owns, or in a hotel gym beasting other great relics of sport.

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By this time the Americans were rolling in the aisles, the non-English speakers reaching for their dictionaries, and the British smelling a good story. There was more. What were his future plans? A double question: 'What did you say to Princess Anne, and if you are going to have children, who is going to be the mother? The TV cameras were whirring, the adrenalin was still pumping, and he was a champion. Was it not unusual for Princess Anne to come on to the track?

It was time to go - Thompson was running in the 4 x metres relay in the morning.