Daley Thompson

Who?

Daley Thompson.

No. Daley Thompson.

Wow.

They're tiny, thin pies.

And it's like, we've broken the car's broken down.

Can you come pick us up from somewhere South of Seville for the thing? Um, we, but the names you look at, I mean, people like, I mean, Daley Thompson, I mean, a God basically.

I mean, and, but we just think of him, we just think of Daley Thompson as God 84.

That's, you know, that, that celebration, but there is so much more behind the man than, than that, you know, than, being flashed across our sports screens and just being ridiculously good at everything, isn't there?

Absolutely.

And that was all the players-

Was that Daley, was that Daley Thompson then?

Daley Thompson, yeah.

'Cause he's a Reading-

[laughs]

That should be the name of the...

So Lord Sebastian Coe was training us and Daley Thompson was training us.

Wow.

You

And again, it's got an incredible history, you know, as it evolved from that.

And then there's Daley Thompson come in and now it's kind of, you know, an energy drink and sports and Jude Bellingham now as well.

It's incredible to be there with that.

You've done well there.

I'm going to have to have a look at this Decathlon stuff.

Sounds a bit like Daily Thompson.

Do you know what?

That's the biggest outdoor company.

And I have no recollection of this, but apparently I was like, okay.

and apparently I had a conversation with my mum about it because I've since talked to her about it because Daley Thompson now you might know who Daley Thompson is so let me give you a quick rundown Daley Thompson in the 1984 Olympics was a decathlon athlete for the UK and Daley Thompson I was what 1984 that'd be so the Olympics I would have been uh eight years old um so daily thompson was already by this point before the 1984 olympics famous and i knew him all the way growing up as a kid because i loved watching athletics just did and when i moved up to thurso i joined every athletics club known to man i was a sprinter i was a javelin thrower i was a everything i loved everything except for long distance running fuck that hated it um and uh Daley Thompson had been diagnosed as hyperactive and there was a big long interview with him being told that he could go out and do the athletics that he desperately wanted to do, throwing javelins around, running around the track or whatever, so that he would be allowed to come in and do schoolwork.

They wanted him to do schoolwork, but he was only allowed to go out and run about until he finished his schoolwork.

And my mum and dad were sort of handling me in a, well, my teachers more were sort of handling me in a similar way.

... you lose your quick fire.

You know, you can't do Daley Thompson's decathlon.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

You can't get perfect 45 degrees on the long jump-

here based on their sort of gait.

Got to be Daley Thompson.

All right.

I'm going to say...

We had Ove Enco, obviously, in track and field.

Daley Thompson.

Big names.

There was Sanderson Whitbread in the javelin.

Right.

No gyms like you have now.

And track... track running with Daley Thompson's group and the 800-meter run of Verona Elder at the time.

So track running three times a week, cross-country running once, plyometric work, bounding up boxes, down off boxes, over hurdles.