Daley Thompson: ‘I was happy to sleep on floors to do what I was doing. You know you have to earn it’

The double Olympic champion insists a knighthood wouldn’t change his life, still trains on Christmas Day and explains why he got a video game and Seb Coe didn’t “When you’re a kid, you think you can be Superman,” says Daley Thompson, as he gazes…
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RegionsUnited Kingdom
Published3 h ago (Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:08 GMT)
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AuthorSean Ingle