Jason Statham was actually a top level diver.The action movie star used to lead a very different life, and he even represented England at the Commonwealth Games back in 1990.He was 23 at the time, and although he competed in the 1m, 3m and 10m events, he didn’t take home a medal at the games in Auckland, New Zealand.Although Jason never realised his Olympic dream – no, he wasn’t quite Tom Daley – which he’s admitted in the past is still ‘a bit of a sore point’, with both Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 either side of his Commonwealth year.He previously said: ‘It’s a bit of a sore point I never got to the Olympics.
I just heard they got seven million or something for the diving per year. They deserve it. The divers we’ve got now are just.
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