Daley Thompson: Olympics can inspire our computer kids

Evening Standard

You would not expect Daley Thompson to advise anyone to stay away from the London Games but he tells me he did exactly that to the doorman at the Dorchester hotel.

"He told me he's going to watch Greco-Roman wrestling. And I said to him, 'I wouldn't.'"

The doorman's response finally convinced Britain's double Olympic decathlon champion that London 2012 will be special.