Yes, athletes from outside the British Isles actually triumphed, too, in 2012.
But what may have seemed to be victories for the people were actually triumphs for the security state.
Gracefully accepting their defeat, the thousands of travelling Parmensi felt obliged to inform their adversaries that they had actually triumphed.
If you're busy insisting that your screw-ups were actually triumphs, you'll never consider what you might do differently.
For others it may not be; if England had actually triumphed, perhaps for some the lesson would have been that the country is superior, we can stand alone, that the Brexit decision was somehow vindicated.
Preliminary results had given Mr. Chavez's leftist Patriotic Pole coalition 12 of the 23 governorships at stake in the election in this oil-rich nation of 23 million people, but this afternoon Mr. Chavez said that his candidates had actually triumphed in 16 states and warned that he would not tolerate "anarchy".
After a series of battles, some not uncostly, Petillius had operated, if not actually triumphed, over the major part of their territory". The image pictured on the coin is that of Hercules, who can be identified by the lion skin he wears.
But this good news was actually a triumph of anti-austerity: Mario Draghi, the new president of the European Central Bank, brushed aside the inflation-worriers and engineered a large expansion of credit, which was just what the doctor ordered.
It seems unanswerable but, as American food writer Michael Pollan points out in this detailed examination of man's interactions with and transformations of the ingredients we eat, the survival of cooking in the home is actually a triumph over the imperatives of human history.
