Editing Daley Thompson (section)

==Early life and education==
Thompson was born in [[Notting Hill]], London, the second son of a [[British Nigerian]] father, Frank Thompson, who ran a [[minicab]] firm, and [[Scottish people|Scottish]] mother, Lydia, from [[Dundee]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sugar|first=Bert Randolph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mwu_MYGlnooC&q=frank+sr|title=The Sports 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Athletes of All Time|date=1997|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8065-1872-5|pages=145|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/> When Thompson was six, his father left home.<ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/> At seven years old, Lydia sent Thompson to Farney Close [[Boarding School]], [[Bolney]], [[Sussex]], which he described as "a place for troubled children".<ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/> When Thompson was eleven or twelve, his father was shot dead in [[Streatham]] by the husband of a woman whom the father and a friend had dropped off.<ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/> Thompson's forename is a contraction of ''Ayodelé'', a [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]] word meaning "joy comes home".<ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/> Thompson's first ambition was to become a professional [[association football|footballer]], but he later switched his interests to athletics.<ref name=Chalmers-27-07-2008/>