When was daley thompson born

Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Daley Thompson from Gale. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Daley amassed a total of 8, points that left Hingsen trailing once again by points. Yes, use cookies No, do not use cookies. Error: please enter a valid email. Error: please enter a valid name. Error: please enter a valid last name. Error: please select a country. Thompson threw himself at the defence of his title in , relocating to California for much of the build-up year and upping his already exhaustive training schedule by two hours a day.

He was driven forward by competition from the likes of German Jurgen Hingsen, with the pair breaking the world record five times between them in the Los Angeles cycle.

Thompson did it when it mattered - and became the second man after Bob Mathias to win two Olympic decathlon gold medals in Recurring hamstring issues imposed retirement on Thompson and you sense he would have continued to further Games had his body not intervened.

In , he took on the Wimbledon soccer team, training them through their pre-season. Team member Chris Perry told a local reporter, "It was a very hard pre-season.

Daley did two weeks of intensive work with us and we weren't really used to it. It enlightened us as to how fit we could get.

I'm sure we'll be using him next season. Thompson had an unusual attitude toward his race. When Ernest Cashmore told Thompson he wanted to interview him for his book, Black Sportsmen, Thompson was initially puzzled.

Cashmore speculated that Thompson's lack of consciousness about his race stemmed from his growing up in an insulated environment at boarding school.

Thompson told Cashmore, "Even though all the other kids at school were white, I never sensed I was different at all. I never even thought about my skin color. I suppose I was protected from many kinds of the pressures on black kids because of my schooling.

Having mixed parents probably had a lot to do with it as well, even though I never had a lot of contact with either of them. Cashmore asked Thompson what he would do if he and a white man had the same qualifications and applied for the same job, and the white man got it. Thompson said he would "go away, think about why this had happened, and apply again.

Thompson has always been friendly but inwardly shy, according to those who know him. Thompson told Nelson, "People have gotten the idea that I'm an outgoing guy, an extrovert. I'm not, but people expect me to live up to my image. When there are lots of people around, they expect me to be loud, jovial, silly, making pranks all the time.

MacNae, Visible Ink Press, All rights reserved. Chose the Decathlon "Decathlon" means "ten events" in Greek, and a form of it was a part of competition in the ancient Greek Olympics.

First Olympic Competition In , Thompson participated in his first Olympics at Montreal, and came in eighteenth, at age