The enormity of her achievements hit home as an emotional Carlin received her medal and stood on top of the podium for Hen Wlad fy Nhadau.
The scale of their achievement soon hit home.
It is, in every sense, the more immediate achievement: it hits and hurts the eyes (the rainy days are lousy enough, but the skies of royal blue, above such grief, feel especially insulting), and it also seems to bleed straight out of the headlines.
For most of its history, the major leagues were progressively populated by better and better baseball players — through natural population growth, racial integration and immigration — which meant that opportunities for achievements like hitting.400 were decreasing.
But he wasn't flashing a very weighty look — in fact, he seemed as bored with the subject as he was with the Rodriguez medical inquiry — so the next question made reference to a milestone that is considered one of baseball's rarest and most luminous achievements: 3,000 hits.
With his teammates screaming at him from the dugout to stop at first base so that he could record the rare personal achievement of having hit for the cycle, Fuld instead hustled into second base for another double.
Except unlike those who sullied baseball's statistical pool, there is little doubt over the authenticity of Ichiro Suzuki's achievement: 4,000 professional hits over a 21-year career.
Physical objects will eventually be tied to digital achievements such as hit "level 20" before you can buy the crown, for instance.
Children earn achievement badges for hitting reading milestones.
The group's main achievements, outside of hit singles like "Robots," "Radio-activity," "The Model," "Trans Europe Express" and others, might be the way they took over a high-brow, intellectual and experimental movement and turned it into a pop, stadium-ready and club-friendly genre.
