LONDON — Even creatures with webbed hands and feet like Telander can appreciate this: More than two million people applied for tickets for the men's 100-meter dash final. That's a two followed by six zeroes. The huge demand had everything to do with Usain Bolt, a wonderfully, ridiculously, improbably named Jamaican sprinter. As it was, 80,000 people of all nationalities, skin colors, religions and ideologies had jammed Olympic Stadium to see this one man do what he does. About two billion others stopped what they were during, turned on their TVs and waited for nine-plus seconds of green-and-yellow blur. Everybody can understand locomotion on land. The ground is natural to all of us. The...
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