Bolt: A showman and superstar like no other

The queues began long before the main event.

The crowds were trickling through the gates and taking their Olympic Stadium seats six hours before the eight fastest men in the world rested their feet into the starting blocks for the Men’s 100m final.

Two million people applied for tickets but only 80,000 were granted access on a cool but dry night in East London to witness four years of training and hardship condensed into less than 10 seconds.