Without these defeats, and the learning curves they prompted, Farah's later triumphs would surely never have happened.
She won her first Olympic gold two years later, triumphing in the 5,000-metre 5,000-metrelehammeraceorway, where she also won her second bronze, for the 3,000-metre event.
It's a peerless creation, the "Cary Grant" of the later triumphs — "Notorious," "To Catch a Thief," "North by Northwest," and "Charade".
In the Glasgow Diamond League meeting she broke her 100m PB, running 11.03sec, and then – a couple of hours later – triumphed in the 200m against the Olympic champion Allyson Felix.
In plays from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) to later triumphs such as Arcadia (1993) and The Invention of Love (1997), Stoppard set intellectually challenging concepts ricocheting in scenes glinting with the to-and-fro of polished repartee.
American Thoroughbred racehorse California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby in early May and two weeks later triumphed in the Preakness Stakes to put himself in position to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.
Such founding figures often also display powerful streaks of sensitivity and elevated vision along with prophetic abilities; on their broad chests and battle-readiness rest the later triumphs of their civilizations.
This prepared her for such later triumphs as Mme Thénardier in the Dublin premiere of Les Misérables in 1993, or a bewitching Mrs Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Gate in Dublin in 2007.
A split decision win over Britain's Joe Bugner in 1977 was among his later triumphs, but Lyle was a declining force by the time he retired in 1980, aged 39, after losing inside a round to the much-hyped prospect Gerry Cooney.
