P247 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                   sense of the word and he was at his  very best in Los Angeles. "I struggled financially, a lot of us  did," he recalled. "But the struggle  was worth it. And because we came at  the end of the time of the amateur, we  were still steeped in that philosophy.  We wanted to do it for the glory, for  the flag, to put Britain on the map,  not for the fast cars and the faster  ladies. Mind you, there wasn't any of  that around: I'd have done it for that  if there was!" That is Daley Thompson down to a tee -  a wonderful world-class athlete and a  character and headline-grabber away   Next       Prev       Home        End