{"id":34863,"date":"2014-07-27T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34863"},"modified":"2014-07-27T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:23:59","slug":"usain-bolt-arrives-to-light-up-glasgow-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/usain-bolt-arrives-to-light-up-glasgow-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt arrives to light up Glasgow 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
These Commonwealth Games would have carried on without him. They probably would have thrived without him. Usain Bolt admitted so himself.<\/p>\n
But as soon as the Jamaican emerged on stage to face a news conference packed with reporters and camera crews from around the world, there was a quick realisation that the remaining nine days would not have been quite the same without him.<\/p>\n
There have been many who have put on a good show during the opening three days of these Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. But there has been a shortage of glamour.<\/p>\n
The arrival of Bolt, the fastest man on the planet, changed all that.<\/p>\n
Within an hour of touching down at the city’s airport, after a long-haul flight from Jamaica via Gatwick, he was facing the Commonwealth’s media.<\/p>\n