Editing Daley Thompson (section)

===1987–1990: Defeat and injury===
Thompson won his third [[1986 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth title in 1986]] and also won another European Championship but after that he never quite recaptured the excellent form of earlier years. In 1987, he suffered his first decathlon defeat for nine years when he finished ninth in the World Championships, and at his fourth [[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon|Olympics in Seoul in 1988]] he finished fourth. He made the [[1990 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]] team for the fourth time in 1990 but was forced to withdraw because of injury.