Daley Thompson - Personal Life

Personal Life

has two children with his girlfriend Lisa, and three with ex-wife Trish.

In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, Thompson made an anti-Irish statement on live television. When Thompson was shown an image of a torch runner with the words "Oylmpic torch bearer", tattooed on her arm, he asserted that the person responsible for the misspelling must have been Irish. The BBC subsequently issued an apology.

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