Her coach and muse, Patrick Mouratoglou, cheering loudest – well, maybe joined equally in the chorus by the winner's ever-present mother, Oracene.
So in all probability the unpopular Mike Ashley regime will join the equally culpable Randy Lerner investment in missing out on the financial bonanza next season brings.
If the line for skates is overwhelming, join the equally large rinkside crowd watching the rush of parkas whipping by; this spot, the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, is still new enough to make for novel people watching.
Perhaps I conveyed that arrogant sense of entitlement that can only come from a newly minted, ivy-league educated economist on their way to join their equally over-educated peers.The cultural compass of America, Oprah Winfrey, had a show last year exposing class divisions in the US.
"When they arrive in the city," wrote Christopher Jencks in an excellent two-part survey, "Slums and Schools," in the New Republic last fall, "they join others equally unprepared for urban life in the slums — a milieu which is in many ways utterly dissociated from the rest of America.
It was joined by equally imposing castles at Rochester and Dover.
More recently, a Swede called Henrik Larsson joined his equally famous predecessors in the Parkhead pantheon.
Froome also joins an equally select group to have won the General Classification and the king of the mountains prize in the same year: since the second world war only Bartali, Coppi, Federico Bahamontes and Merckx have managed the feat.
But she has been known to ease up in compatible musical company, so it will be interesting to see what happens when she joins some equally formidable but generally more sensitive musicians from the society, including Ida Kavafian (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Fred Sherry (cello), David Shifrin (clarinet) and Anne-Marie McDermott (piano).
