I overcame poverty & dad’s murder to become Olympic star…I don’t regret royal gag that shocked world says Daley Thompson

OLYMPIC legend Daley Thompson once refused to take off new trainers during a steamy encounter with an ex girlfriend – because they meant more to him than sex.

The two-time decathlon gold medallist – who grew up using food and clothes banks on a council estate in London’s Notting Hill – was given his first pair of SL72 Adidas trainers in 1975, five years before his first Olympic win.