Action movie star Jason Statham has a "sore" history with the Olympic Games. Before he became a fixture on the big screen, Statham was honing his skills as a competitive diver, with aspirations of ...

Acting Lessons 101 with Guy. If I’m bad, it’s on him,” Statham once said in an interview with Men’s Journal. Jason Statham once considered not making it as a successful diver a sore spot ...

Action movie star Jason Statham has revealed his failure to compete at the Olympic Games remains a "sore point". The British actor represented England in diving at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in ...

Anyway, Jason Statham didn't happen to make it to an Olympics or anything, but he did say in an interview with IGN, "It was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a ...

Statham's diving abilities have also played a significant role in shaping certain film narratives. The 2018 movie The Meg, centered around an oceanic adventure, was tailored to showcase Statham's ...

JASON STATHAM looks unrecognisable as a Team GB Olympic hopeful before his acting career. The Hollywood legend swapped the diving board for the film set after two attempts to qualify for the Games.

In 2013, Statham once told Katie Couric about his Olympic Diving aspiration, noting that his love of diving began on a childhood trip to Florida.

I’d known that Jason Statham had been a diver in a previous life, before he became even more famous for droivin flash sazz wagons an’ knobbin fit birds from da ukraine, but until last week, I ...

@LuxMeaMundiAM commented: ‘How did I not know Jason Statham was once a professional diver?!’ Another fan, @blesskatty, commented: damn, that was a long time ago, but he’s always been a badass!

Jason Statham is totally unrecognisable in a throwback image of him competing as a Team GB Olympic hopeful. The Hollywood star originally trained as a diver before trading the sport for a career ...

Unfortunately, the diving world is not that popular outside of the Olympics, and there wasn’t much money in it. This was the reason that Statham decided to try his hands at other things.