Olympics

  • NewsBen Skipper

    Jason Statham Reveals His Olympic Diving Disappointment Remains A 'Sore Point'

    Jason Statham has been discussing his brief career as a professional diver, revealing that his failure to get to an Olympic Games remains a “sore point”. It’s certainly no secret that Statham competed at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, but that it’s still a sensitive subject for the action star comes as a bit of a surprise. Speaking to Press Association (via Belfast Telegraph) at the premiere of ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’, Statham said: “It’s a bit of a sore point I never got to the

  • NewsBen Arnold

    The Actors Who Could Have Been Olympians

    It’s hard to imagine Stath doing anything other than punching faces and torsos these days, but there was a time when he was punching through the surface tension as a member of the National Diving Squad, with which he competed for 12 years. Sporting both hair and a pair of skimpy Speedos, he represented England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, finishing 11th in both the three-metre springboard and the 10-metre platform. Geena Davis is a hugely talented archer.