From the start, he recognized how hard it was to triumph over the pressure, the difficult conditions and the deep fields.
In 1804 the free Republic of Haiti was declared in almost unimaginable triumph: hard to exaggerate the glory of that birth.
"It's been said that those who live near a police station find it hard to believe in the triumph of violence.
Trainer Josh Gifford still finds it hard to talk about the triumph without shedding a tear.
Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we'll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena.
Tweak the scenery a bit, and Mr Chernomyrdin could conceivably find himself teamed up with the Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, or his current preferred choice Alexander Lebed, a popular former general.For all that, it is hard to see Mr Chernomyrdin triumphing, as he hopes, in a free presidential election.
That is not so much a defeat of the West as its triumph.Unless Asia has any exclusive "killer apps" of its own, it is hard to see how such a triumph could alone condemn the West to disaster.
As trans-Tasman thrillers go, it's hard to go past the Wallabies' triumph in the one-off Bledisloe Cup Test at the Sydney Football Stadium in 1994.
Frankly, though, watching Chelsea's players cavort in the blue and white ticker-tape at the end of a match in which the champions strolled over the line with six defenders on the pitch, and a near-immobile 37-year-old centre-forward, it is hard to see anything but a triumph of management, based around two key decisions.
But considering the number of people who were having naps during the screening, it also would be hard to call it an unalloyed triumph.
