Rather, they reflect a collective triumph of New York's brand of American reinvention.
The story of 22 November 2003 will also always be a collective triumph of wills.
Manda's mass production had seemed a collective triumph; no one wants to deal with the grim aftermath.
The end result is collective triumph, driven by familiar success in the sports that combine engineering, equipment and execution.
And there was the prospect of inevitable victory upon victory - a collective triumph of the national athletic will.
He portrays the final product as a perfect communist achievement - a collective triumph that saved the motherland.
Skelton, the unquestioned team leader, is now well placed to add individual gold to this collective triumph, and his team-mates were backing him to do it.
None of that should compromise the fact that, regardless of the collective triumph, there were several individuals in the England camp with points to prove, if not places to play for.
A collective triumph for an under-fire India team that will be celebrated by hundreds of millions at home must have provided the greatest personal satisfaction, and a little vindication, for Yuvraj Singh.
That may have been the club football result of the year, but the presence of Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller and Philipp Lahm in the top nine here is a reflection of the indelible glory of Germany's collective triumph in Brazil.
Yet among the euphoria of collective triumph that currently oozes out of the German top-flight's self-proclaimed success, one team sits in contention, contradicting that notion like a fly in the ointment, after failing to live up to the new standards set by this ever-impressive domestic conglomerate of Euro-challengers.
