"MORE than two hours after he had run the fastest 100 metres of all time, Usain Bolt walked back into a virtually empty stadium on Sunday night.

Gone was the victory lap, the flag-draping, finger-wagging celebration and the standing-room-only love-in at the after-race press conference. Gone was the 70,000-strong crowd that had come expecting to see a miracle and miraculously been dato one. In front of just a handful of cleaners and a few journalists, Bolt returned to the track he had recently stamped his name all over and started going through his warm-down.

It was the act of a disciplined,...