Joaquim Cruz, withdrew because of a cold. The T-shirt he wore after winning gold in 1984 bore the slogan “. After nine events Thompson had essentially won and, though he needed to run the 1,500m in only 4min 34.8sec, 11 sec slower than his personal best, to break the world record he treated it as something of a cakewalk, grinning as he came home in 4min 35sec. . Found inside – Page B-69In a Decathlon, the events are 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 1500m, Highjump, Pole-vault, Longjump, Discus, ... Guido Kratschmer FRG 8861 575 5308 3064 10.58 2.0 4.6 Daley Thompson GBR 582 3003 10.55 2.1 4.6 Frank Busemann GER 8905 568 5392 ... Great Britain & N.I. The first day had been cold, the second colder still and damp which ruined his chances of finding the explosive speed required for the hurdles and keeping him on course for the world record. “Daley is a Stalinist,” Coe said. Daley Thompson First athlete to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European titles and hold world record The decathlon requires proficiency in ten events - the shot put, discus and javelin throws; the long and high jumps; the pole vault; the 100 m, the 400 m and the 1500 m run and the 110 m hurdles. On day one, the 100m, long jump, shot putt, high jump and 400m are contested. He has suffered down the years so much ignorance in the reporting of his event and that distortion undoubtedly has an effect upon him. United Kingdom Track and Field All-Time Lists - Links to fan sites, personal pages and profiles of British athletes (past and present) on the web. It is the most physically demanding event for athletes. Found insideThompson won the pole vault with relative ease, as Hingsen, hit by bad luck, was physically sick during the event, and as a result underperformed in the javelin, giving Thompson another victory. In the final contest, the 1500 metres, ... When he crosses it, Desmond Lynam utters the strapline: “Lucozade, the refreshing glucose drink.”. When a boxer thought he won . It relied instead on tokenistic opposition to the invasion – its athletes did not attend the opening ceremony and winners were feted by the Olympic flag and anthem instead of the Union Flag and God Save the Queen. Found inside – Page 36Nevertheless , Daley was determined to continue and compete to his highest standards . “ Are you sure about this , Daley ? ... Following the pole vault the next day , he walked into the tunnel . “ Frankie , I want you to buy two tickets ... On day two, the competitors face the 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and, finally, the 1500m. Decathlon, Men. Found inside – Page 22Jim Thorpe C USA 200 hen Daley Thompson won his second consecutive Olympic decathlon gold medal , a reporter asked him if he was surprised at beating ... The duel was decided in the next event , eighth on the program — the pole vault . On 25 July 1980 in the Lenin Stadium, Thompson’s 10.62sec for the 100m and 8m in the long jump gave him 2,000 points from two events and a huge lead. Thompson muttered to himself as he walked to the circle, swinging his arms to shake away any tension and breathing deeply. Daley had set such a blistering pace that the world-record was easily within his grasp going into the final event, 1500m. 63. “You’ve just mentioned the lady,” he said. Decathlete Daley Thompson of Great Britain poses for a portrait on the long jump track with a pole vault, javelin, discus, shot put, hurdles, high. No decathlete had a more finely attuned competitive instinct and in 1984 at Los Angeles when he needed it most he once again proved that he would peak when it counted. There were a few (if we are being polite) ‘miscalculations. Found inside – Page 130But our special cheers were reserved for the great showman of the event; the decathlete Daley Thompson. ... Next was the pole vault and Daley was the darling of the crowd with another astonishing achievement. And then came the fifteen ... English decathlete Daley Thompson of the Great Britain team salutes the crowd after crossing the finish line in 14th place in the 1500 metres race,. All rights reserved. In 2010, when I started making Pole Riders, my original plan was to make a straight pole-vaulting game, like the ones in Summer Games or Daley Thompson's Decathlon, both games that were super-popular when I was six years old.Back in 1984, local multiplayer games were nearing the peak of their popularity. Born. Daley Thompson (GB) Born 30.7.58. pole vault, javelin and 1,500m. If Hingsen threw further than Thompson in the discus, the champion’s supremacy after the seventh event would still read four of the disciplines to his principal challenger’s three. In deeds more than words, though there were plenty of those too, he corroborated the judgment of his friend, Sebastian Coe. He spoke about wanting to have children, which prompted a double question of whether he had anyone in mind to be the babies’ mother and to elaborate on what the Princess had said to him. Daley ThompsonDaley Thompson (born 1958) was one of the best decathlon athletes in history. Daley would then jump 21cm further than the German in the Long jump. The first two, the 100m and long jump, were his best and day one continued with the shot, high jump and 400m. On the two days of his competition here there were more than 300,000 people in the stadium – how many were there specifically for the decathlon and would go to see him somewhere in California is a commercial calculation which Thompson should leave to someone else. The German had the stronger discus and javelin, but had a poor pole vault, clearing only 4.60m to Thompson's 5.10m. There was disappointment. The World's Best Sport Photographs! Found inside – Page B-69In a Decathlon, the events are 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 1500m, Highjump, Pole-vault, Longjump, Discus, ... Guido Kratschmer FRG 8861 575 5308 3064 10.58 2.0 4.6 Daley Thompson GBR 582 3003 10.55 2.1 4.6 Frank Busemann GER 8905 568 5392 ... . It really is but another few steps towards arranging a meeting next year against his Olympic rivals in a permit meeting in the United States – that way he can ask for participation money. Found inside – Page 134In a Decathlon, the events are 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 1500m, High jump, Pole vault, Long jump, Discus, ... Wentz FRG 8 856 470 Guido Kratschmer FRG 8 861 575 Daley Thompson GBR 582 Frank Busemann GER 8905 568 Alexandr Apaichev SOV ... For the first seven events, little separated Thompson and Hingsen as they battled for first place. Thompson reached the second highest score of his career and had but in the end a rather narrow margin. “That’s a joke,” he added with a wink. Found inside – Page 82Daley Thompson is a highly competent performer at many disciplines : for several years he has been Britain's best long jumper , and ranked in the national top ten at sprints , hurdles and pole vault . He competes regularly for his club ... Daley had been well below par with . The decathlete Daley Thompson stands atop the podium with his gold medal in 1984 and his great rival, Jürgen Hingsen, on the left with his silver. In 1982, the year he broke the world record twice and was European and Commonwealth champion, he was castigated for refusing to carry the England team’s flag at the opening ceremony in Brisbane. The decathlon consists of 10 events including the pole vault. The only one who could stop Daley’s relentless march to Gold: Jürgen Hingsen. Found inside – Page IE-66Name Country Final Score Score 1 Score 2 Score 3 100 M High Jump Pole Vault Eduard Hamalainen BLS 8802 491 5322 2989 ... 5250 3137 10.85 2.05 4.8 Guido Kratschmer FRG 8861 575 5308 3064 10.58 2.00 4.6 Daley Thompson GBR 582 3003 10.55 ... Found insideThroughout the two days of their confrontaon, Thompson and his German rival Hingsen would keep the crowds—and ... Hingsen knew that if he did well in the pole vault, and kept the pressure on in the javelin throw, he would be in a very ... They hated it that Daley simultaneously attracted and shunned fame. After the round of 4.70m jumps, Holly Bradshaw is now just one of four athletes left in the pole vault. . Daley Thompson. Daley Thompson primed for rare second Olympic decathlon title. That brought him to the pole vault. Going into the 1984 Olympics Jurgen had overcome Daley’s Decathlon record and upped the ante by another 50 points. “Right then after a competition, I’m too tired to bother. In the afternoon Hingsen clawed back some ground in the high jump but hurt his knee in taking 77 points out of Thompson’s lead and the Londoner blazed back in the 400m to end the day with a cushion of 114 points over his rival. James Edward "Trey" Hardee III (born February 7, 1984, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a retired American track and field athlete who specialized in the combined events.He is a former NCAA Champion, a two-time World Outdoor Champion, a member of the United States 2008 Olympic team, and the silver medalist in the decathlon at the London 2012 Olympics.He was Inducted into the Texas Track and Field . “For that one moment I wasn’t interested in winning. Found inside – Page S-120Hence for a bronze, Daley Thompson must have a final score of 8881 ∴ He must score, 8881–582–3003 = 5296 From score-2, it is clear that Michael Smith is ranked 12th in a mix of three events, viz. High Jump, Pole-vault and Long jump ... Unrivalled Olympic news & highlights. Edition: June 5, 1982. I own an iPhone. Event 3 Girls Pole Vault (11) . Meanwhile, Thompson fared poorly in the 110-meter hurdles, the discus and the javelin. “I would like all these people to come back and watch me,” he said. I know it’s not the greatest thing that’s ever going to happen to me. On review the IAAF knocked an extra thousandth of a second off his 110m hurdles time meaning he had equalled the record and then further recalculation moved his score to 8,847 points – a world record that stood for 8 years until 1992. The 110-meter hurdles, the discus, the pole vault, the javelin and the 1,500 meters remained in the decathlon. But in working towards those targets he must take care to preserve the rest. Seb Coe repeated his 1500m win. 21 Sloan, Rodrick Grassfield ND . He is a perfectionist in 10 sporting disciplines and he expects, unrealistically, all those involved, be they officials or part of the media, to attempt to match him. On May 22-23 . The joystick breaker! Later that evening atop the podium, God Save the Queen blaring out, the Union flag being raised, Daley, seemingly without a care in the world, whistled along. 4th HOLLY BLEASDALE (pole vault), Daley Thompson (decathlon). Daley THOMPSON. Thompson said afterwards that after the pole vault, the eighth event, he decided that he could not achieve his ambition of breaking the record with a score of more than 9,000 points. There were a few (if we are being polite) ‘miscalculations. a classic track-and-field event for men, consisting of ten track-and-field events. When he won the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award at the end of that year and was given the trophy by Sir Garfield Sobers, he turned up in his usual tracksuit and said “I feel like shit” when he began his acceptance speech. Sanjay Daley: 10.89 (4.5) PR: May 6: GLVC Outdoor Track & Field Championships: 3. Unlimited access to series. Somehow Seb always found a way. His last lap of the final event, the 1500 metres, showed that the age when sportsmen gave their all for the gold medal are gone. Men's athletics at the Coliseum: Daley THOMPSON of Great Britain clears the bar in the pole vault section of the decathlon. 0. He overcame the brutal murder of his father to become arguably our greatest ever athlete. Two days later I feel really good about it but by then I have it in perspective. No Featured Athletes at the moment. DALEY THOMPSON is a former British decathlete who broke the world record four times.Aged 60, the London-born superstar overcame the brutal murder of h . Day two loomed – Jurgen Hingsman, loomed, like he always did. When he came out to receive his medal, he leapt up to click his heels and, while the Olympic anthem was playing after he was given gold, he conducted the small British contingent of spectators through the National Anthem that officially had been denied him by Mrs Thatcher’s sanction. Daley Thompson of England during the High Jump in the Decathlon event at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. The one who made your heart sink just a bit every time his name was mentioned? He won the gold by the considerable margin of 142 points and the record-breaking is left for another time. To begin with he whistled the national anthem as the Union Flag was hoisted after he was given his gold medal. Iconic. He may not have been as warm as he seemed but he was always as good as he looked and no one in 1984 looked better. The second day sees the 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and the gruelling 1500m. He then managed 15.18m in the shot, a poor 2.08m in the high jump when his personal best at that point had been 2.15m, and 48.01sec in the 400m to leave him with a midway total of 4,532 points, 254 points in front of the Soviet Union’s Yuri Kutsenko. The news was filled with USA’s boycott of the games and there was Goodhews bald head bobbing out the pool following breaststroke glory. The perceived wisdom is that Daley Thompson was hard to love. Maybe the years and years of bad press have taken their toll, But none of that mattered to me as a 9 year old kid who sat down to watch history unfold. Little did we know they’d be two steps higher on the platform 4 years later. Seb Coe repeated his 1500m win. they would go on to finish 3rd and 4th respectively. Found inside – Page 352... but only the most dedicated of sports followers can claim to be familiar with contests such as putting the shot, hammer and discus throwing or the pole vault. Whilst everyone has heard of Daley Thompson, few can recite, ... Yet Thompson eased up at the finish line and stopped the clock at 4:35.00! The Briton had won gold – and ruffled feathers – at Moscow in 1980 but that was nothing compared to LA four years later. He had not lost a decathlon since the 1978 European Championships, winning the 1982 European and Commonwealth titles, and was 1984 World Champion. By Phil Elderkin. When he spins and launches the discus, his technique is hardly textbook, too close to his hips and too far from his shoulders to get the optimum distance. The glory of the decathlon, though, is that a lead can disappear at any time: a fall in the hurdles, a false-start disqualification in the sprints, a no-height in the pole vault or, more commonly, an opponent’s huge margin of superiority in a single event can unseat the leader. He was bound to smash Daley in the throwing events and launch a discus so far he would get enough points to win a Decathlon on its own. TM © 2021 – International Olympic Committee – All Rights Reserved. Daley Thompson of Great Britain competes in the Pole Vault event of the Men's Decathlon at the XXIII Summer Olympics on 9th August 1984 at the Los. He and Hingsen may have traded world records but in the events that mattered, it was always Thompson who emerged victorious. DALEY THOMPSON is a former British decathlete who broke the world record four times.Aged 60, the London-born superstar overcame the brutal murder of his father - shot dead when he was 12 - to become arguably our greatest athlete of all time. It was Daley versus Germany (and we know how much GB loves that narrative.) Today's lunchtime # retrogaming on the # ZXSpectrum # DaleyThompsonsDecathlon. The multi-tracked guitars and bass intro of Iron Maiden’s Phantom of the Opera opens slowly as the double Olympic gold medallist first appears on screen. . Sweden's Armand Duplantis is miles in front of the others and cleares 6.02m to take the men's pole vault gold. The temperature on the first day of the decathlon was 29C, 15C higher than the warmest day in Moscow, and the notorious Los Angeles smog descended on the stadium. I was definitely an Ovett man then and I also remember endless sprint races in the school yard everyone of us pretending to be Alan Wells in those skimpy white PE shorts. Steve Cram was the favourite going into the final. There was Tessa Sanderson’s golden arm beating Fatima Whitbread into 3rd place whilst Daley Thompson whistled atop his podium. Vs. He shouldn’t even have been there – Peter Elliott had beaten him in Olympic qualifying but Coe still got the nod. 6th Sally Gunnell (400m hurdles), Paula Radcliffe (10,000m). Daley Thompson won back-to-back gold at Los Angeles 1984 and Moscow 1980. . But Thompson pulled away with strong performances in the pole vault and the javelin. He ran 14.47sec and after the discus led by 198 points. In 1988, Daley Thompson's pole broke during the pole vault event in the decathlon at the Seoul Olympics, a setback that led to him placing fourth in the event overall. Why bother building up interest in a video game from scratch when you can sign up a big name people are already familiar with? In the family home, we have three iPads. And the winner of the 800m. Everyone knew the famous story of his Christmas day training sessions to gain an edge on his rivals, which were more a sadistic psychological weapon than a masochistic trial for himself. Event. C-Type & Wallpaper. 5th Colin Jackson (110m hurdles). Asked before the Games whether the West German’s absence demeaned the competition, Thompson was defiant. In the 100m Thompson was drawn with Hingsen and Kratschmer and after a false-start he stormed out of the blocks to win the heat in a personal best 10.44sec which earned him 944 points, 122 more than Hingsen. If it were, you’d never be able to pick yourself up and do it all over again next year.”. Found insideAlso, allow yourself to snigger at the fact that Daley Thompson, a double Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete, couldn't make his talents stretch to football, despite his best ... Back to the pole vault with you, Daley, my old son. Daley Thompson of Great Britain during the Pole vault event of the Men's Decathlon on 9th August 1984 during the XXIII Olympic Games at the Los. “Coming down the final straight of that 1,500m,” he said, “it [the world record] was the last thing on my mind.” He added: “All I was thinking was two down one to go” – a reference to his ambition of winning three Olympic golds. Found inside – Page B-69In a Decathlon, the events are 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 1500m, Highjump, Pole-vault, Longjump, Discus, ... Guido Kratschmer FRG 8861 575 5308 3064 10.58 2.0 4.6 Daley Thompson GBR 582 3003 10.55 2.1 4.6 Frank Busemann GER 8905 568 5392 ... Daley Thompson of Great Britain competes in the pole vault discipline on the second day of the decathlon competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in. @ jenkin7NICK is going to be risking his fingers to play this classic on his livestream this evening at 9.00pm. Athletics Posters at Sports Photo Gallery. Daley Thompson and J√ºrgen Hingsen of West Germany were both training in California last March, only 120 miles apart. But by the 1980 Olympics he had established himself as the world's top decathlete. 2 x Olympic Games Gold medallist. Honours Summary. The remastered version of the game is as addictive as the original and now you can use Twitter to share your achievements with your friends.-TWO DAYS OF SPORT-TEN EVENTS-GAME CENTER SUPPORT-LEADER BOARDS-TWITTER INTEGRATION Events -- Day One 100m Long Jump To urge you on with the frantic joystick-mangling there are superb graphics with adequate sound effects. More Honours. Los Angeles, 9 August 1984, Games of the XXIII Olympiad. Today, he is an ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic Games and teaching children how to play football in . 1 x World Championships Gold medallist. Hingsen, at 6ft 7in, towered over Thompson but in six meetings before the LA Olympics Thompson had always prevailed regardless of Hingsen’s world records. Download Daley Thompson 39 s Decathlon. I have little doubt that this will do as well in the software charts as Daley invariably does at the Decathlon. 0 FEATURE: page 64 Pole Vault (at 12 . Daley however certainly could. 1 x European Championships Silver medallist. 2 x European Championships Gold medallist. Whilst many people remember the exuberant somersault on the pole vault mat from '84, the key moment came in the seventh event. His time of 4min 35sec for the event was 0.1 sec slower than he required, giving a points total of 8,797. Thompson was a natural showman. Found inside – Page 56Name Country Final Score Score - 1 Score - 2 Score - 3 100m High Jump Pole - vault Eduard Hamalainen BLS 8802 491 5322 2989 10.74 2.1 4.8 Michael Smith CAN 2255 174 5274 3407 ... At least how many competitors ( excluding Daley Thompson. The 203 points between Thompson and the 9,000 mark will come from a 70-metre javelin throw, which he is reaching in training, lopping a lot of seconds off the 1500 metres run – his best in a decathlon is four minutes 22 seconds – and getting his high jumping back to 2.15 metres. It is the most physically demanding event for athletes. “Athletes are not bothered about where their rivals come from or whether they read Das Kapital in bed,” he told the Sunday Times. So: Jelani Regan: 21.79 . It was Daley versus Germany (and we know how much GB loves that narrative.) The record now stood at 8825. Found inside – Page 25If you do something wrong , you might miss the box with your pole and slam into the pads , miss the pit completely once you're airborne , or even break the pole , as Daley Thompson does today . When my turn comes to vault , I grab my ... But disaster lurked in the . Whatever, his flaws and there seem to be quite a few (who doesn’t have them – I’m not sue my flaws would bare Red Top scrutiny), Daley Thompson is one of the greatest olympic athletes this nation has ever produced. . It didn’t matter that Daley was undefeated in the Decathlon for 9 years between 1979 & 1987, the 6ft 7″ world record holder, Jurgen (the only man with a moustache more impressive than Daley’s), was always looming in the shadows – ready to strike. Daley had been well below par with . Daley Thompson's Decathlon is our first encounter with Manchester-based publisher (and in this case developer) Ocean, and gives some pointers to the approach that will see them dominate the UK chart in the late 80s. “It was the best and worst moment of my life,” Thompson wrote in his autobiography. Ashton Eaton (USA) of USA competes. Daley Thompson's Decathlon is a computer game based on Konami's Track and Field, developed and released under license by Ocean Software in 1984. No Briton had ever won a medal in it since the modern decathlon had been inaugurated at the 1912 Olympics until Thompson won gold at Moscow in 1980. In the pole vault, wait until you reach the complete vertical before you press the button to let go of the pole. He is somewhere in the south-west of the United States of America and the intense early morning heat is captured by the fuzzy quality of the pictures. See more ideas about olympics, spectrum, crash magazine. Daley Thompson won his first Olympic gold at the 1980 Moscow Games. Found inside – Page 120Hence for a bronze, Daley Thompson must have a final score of 8881 ∴ He must score, 8881 – 582–3003 = 5296 58. (d) From score-2, it is clear that Michael Smith is ranked 12th in a mix of three events, viz. High Jump, Pole-vault and ... Thompson knows after three Olympic Games and nine years’ experience of the event how to work at that – but at 25 he still appears unable to handle his responsibilities off the track. It’s no good being 8,000 miles away and saying: ‘I would have won if I’d been there.’ Nobody remembers who wasn’t there – only who won. Maybe he can’t be taught how to behave but he needs to be told.” In the Observer, the Melbourne Olympics gold medallist and athletics correspondent, Chris Brasher, said Thompson “spoke to the world with a tongue of a brilliant athlete who sounded like a tinkling cymbal because he has no charity, no kindness, no grace”. 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