A Daley reminder of decathlete Thompson's great achievement | Letters

While the Cabinet Office and various committees are considering the "special circumstances" applying to honours for the victorious and deserving athletes returning from Rio (PM hints at bumper Olympics honours list, 23 August), perhaps they could spend a minute or two contemplating awarding a knighthood to Britain's greatest ever all-round athlete, Daley Thompson, who won the decathlon in 1980 and 1984 with nothing like the financial support of today's winners. At a time when other athletes wer...