Daley's Decathalon (1982)
TV Sports Special

Press & Posters

 
'"…I believe I've seen the best sports documentary film of 1983"
(Evening Standard)


"It is an entertaining, informative and fascinating film, made by a distinguished feature director, Christopher Miles"
(Peter Cargin - Work-Out) 


"…superb shots from the action in the Stadium in Athens, conveying the tension and the strain"
(The Guardian)

 
"DYNAMIC DALEY - Daley's Decathlon is a dramatic story of his sensational triumph in shattering the World Record… and produced a spell-binding record of his fight to beat the world" 
(Daily Mirror) 


"Daley's Decathlon is fascinating simply by virtue of its subject and technical strategy. We see a mano-a-mano match between two great athletes… it becomes as close and intimate and as thoroughly detailed as any record of a sports event could be"
(Los Angeles Weekly)



Two years after this film was made Daley achieved the impossible and won Olympic Gold again in Los Angeles