In the 100m Richard Kilty and Ojie Edoburun both qualified for the semi-finals in the same time – 10.24sec – and afterwards Kilty, the former world indoor champion, promised more was to come.
Bringing together a cast of three flamenco dancers, three hip-hop dancers, and three B-boys, including Chey Jurado, Spain's national champion, Titanium promises to explore the common ground between these different dance cultures, their elemental showmanship and their percussive virtuosity.
Resident DJ and beer-slugging champion WhoreHeatOh promises the residents aren't focused on money, but on creating an anything-goes environment fusing electronic music with carefree Central American party culture.
In 1986, the five-time Tour champion Bernard Hinault promised to serve as a domestique to an up-and-coming American, Greg LeMond.
Mindful that, as Walsh showed, "everybody will be coming for me now I'm Olympic champion", Adams promised before the Games to "box like every fight is the final".
The unanimous decision gave Ruiz the World Boxing Association title, made him the first Latino heavyweight champion and promised to renew feuds and test loyalties as promoters search for a unification bout with Lennox Lewis.
He was fast of fist and foot — lip, too — a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did.
In keeping with his career as a populist champion, Ellison promised he would be "the People's Lawyer" as state attorney general and defend civil rights, consumers, workers and the environment.
The former tennis champion, John McEnroe, who promises he will be as intimidating to contestants as he once was to line judges, asks trivia-style questions while the contestant's heart rate appears on the screen.
Now he is a Paralympic champion, with the promise of more trophies and garlands to come.
