His eight medals – five of them gold – lift him above Chris Hoy as the G.O.A.T of Team GB and unless they reintroduce medals for poetry, like the one Pierre de Coubertin won in 1912, there's little left for the cycling great to achieve.
Raisman, the team's eldest member and captain, worked tirelessly for her comeback and was paid handsomely for her efforts: silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise plus a second team gold lift her career haul to six, making her second only to Shannon Miller for most decorated American gymnast ever.
The resulting alliances can sometimes be odd indeed: American resentment against the elites has been successfully channelled by a billionaire who lives in a Manhattan tower complete with a gold lift.
After a chance encounter with Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, they were ushered up to meet the president-elect and ended up touring his apartment as well as having photographs taken with him in a gold lift.
The continuing bounce in the gold price lifted Randgold Resources 83p to £48.57 and Polymetal International 26.5p to 684p.
The mine's owner, Harmony Gold, had lifted all of the miners to safety by about 9 p.m. Thursday, The Associated Press reported, using an undamaged auxiliary elevator in a ventilation shaft.
The real story here, though, is Brazil, and a home gold to lift, dazzle and generally garland the end of these Rio Games.
AngloGold added a cash component to its initial stock-based takeover offer for Normandy Mining Ltd., Australia's largest gold producer, lifting the price by $231 million and topping the offer of the Newmont Mining Corporation.
Murray enjoyed his best year in tennis, winning Olympic gold before lifting his maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open, and was runner-up at Wimbledon.
With a bit of luck, Team GB's gold rush has lifted the pressure off the teenager's shoulders as he begins the individual competition.
