So despite walking into this competition as the defending Olympic champion, her trophy case is relatively empty compared to team-mates like Simone Biles, who has won more gold medals at the world level than any American, and Aly Raisman, who picked up two individual medals in London (in addition to a floor medal in 2011).
Football clubs amass trophies, Olympic nations win medals, basketball franchises crave rings.
— Forget podium ceremonies, World Cup trophies or Olympic medals.
Her sister, thirty-two-year-old Serena Williams, who first won this tournament in 1999, possesses seventeen Grand Slam singles trophies, four Olympic gold medals (an achievement matched by her sister), and a regal bearing that has edged beyond diva and toward natural force.
Over the last 40 years, it has produced no less than 57 international hockey players, including the stars Tahir Zaman, Rashid-ul-Hassan and Shahbaz Jr. Former pupils have won World Cups, Champions Trophies and Olympic gold medals.
But the vendor did not focus on the tennis trophies or the Olympic medals or even the replica of the FIFA World Cup trophy, whose twisted golden ball is world renowned.
She is a two-times world champion who has reset the world record six times and needed only the Olympic gold to complete her trophy cabinet after finishing with silver in 2012.
Now she has proven her mettle on the sport's grandest stage and the lone piece of silverware missing from her trophy case – an Olympic gold medal – is hers.
Wallace, who won the Third Division award last season, received his trophy from Winter Olympic medallists Eve Muirhead and David Murdoch.
The 23-year-old, who won a silver medal at this summer's Olympic Games, lifted the glitterball trophy after performing a quick-footed Charleston.
