Daley Thompson: No Idea

“I didn’t even know John Barrowman was Scottish - never mind gay."

'British athletics icon', Daley Thompson, The Sun.

Daley Thompson: Why Sportsmen Don't Come Out

Carefree as the wind itself, he whistled the national anthem as the Union Jack was raised over Hollywood in 1984.
With delicious audacity, Daley Thompson wore a speculative T-shirt for the attention of American superstar Carl Lewis, a four-time gold medallist in Los Angeles, bearing the legend: “Is the world’s second greatest athlete gay?”

The Daily Mirror.

You may call it "delicious audacity", I call it being a homophobic cunt.
If "Olympic legend Daley Thompson" does "get the call to light the London flame" might I suggest he apologises first?