Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva elevated to national hero status after pole vault gold

Few who braved rain at the Olympic Stadium witness famous victory Twenty-two-year-old wins host nation's first athletics gold since 1984 By midnight, the Olympic Stadium can't have been a quarter-full. But in years to come, as this story grows in the telling, we'll discover that the crowd must have been much larger than it seemed because so many Brazilians say that they were there. There was only one competition going on. The track finals were over and for an hour no one had anything to watch bu...