Sure Team GB’s got its stars. Sir Chris Hoy, Ben Ainslie, Rebecca Adlington, Bradley Wiggins and Beth Tweddle are already, or on their way to becoming, household names. But no other Olympic athlete can match the profile of the fastest man on the planet™, Usain Bolt.
Watching his world-record and Olympic gold performances on television, it’s impossible to get a decent perspective of his stature and physique – all 6ft 5in of him.
To do that you have to meet the man and stand beside him. After all, how else can you compare your height and muscles with him?!
Now you can … well sort of. London’s Madame Tussauds has added Usain Bolt to its revamped sports zone. He features in his trademark “lightening bolt” pose wearing a Jamaican kit similar in colour and style to the one he wore for his sprint triple gold medal haul at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
You can also get up close and personal with two of our big medal hopes, heptathlete Jessica Ennis and diver Tom Daley. Ennis is striking her trademark victory stance replete with Union Jack, while Daley is captured mid-dive as he soars from a diving board towards the water.
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