Chiselbury, the independent publisher, is pleased to announce the publication of DALEY, the long-awaited autobiography of the life of double Olympic decathlon champion, Daley Thompson. It includes a foreword by Lord Sebastian Coe, who describes Daley as the greatest Olympian Britain has ever produced.
Wearing his heart on his sleeve, he chronicles his legendary sporting achievements, but, for the first time, also reveals the personal struggles he faced to rise from the humblest of beginnings to become the ultimate Olympic Superstar, who then had to reconcile what he had become with his own humanity as a son and as a father.
At his sporting peak, Daley was a charismatic, uncompromising, anti-establishment superhero. That was the public persona the nation loved, and which inspired a generation of Britons to realise that a young Black man could be our hero. But the introvert Daley didn’t want to be ‘famous’ for anything other than his sporting...
