You may expect the new Daley Thompson documentary to focus on his two Olympic golds in 1980 and 1984, world records and heroic performances under immense pressure. Those do feature, but the deeper takeaways are about father-son relationships, turning points in our lives and the transformative impact of key figures who shape us.
Airing on Tuesday on BBC Two, Daley: Olympic Superstar includes previously unshared insights from Thompson about his life and, poignantly, his tough childhood. We see Thompson look back on finding out that his father, whom he hardly knew, had been shot. He reflects on the fact that his mother never came to see him race with a puzzlement moulded through hindsight and his own experiences of fatherhood.
