Dave Richardson, the chief executive of the International Cricket Council, fears the sport's path towards becoming an Olympic sport may have become harder in light of the number of high-profile golfers to have pulled out of the Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Until Holm ensured that the '0' in Rousey's loss column went away for good, Rousey had marched a path towards becoming a transcendent athlete.
"In the mid-60s, the UEA helped to change the direction of my life, setting me on the path towards becoming a writer," says Rose Tremain, multi-prizewinning novelist and the university's current chancellor.
There are also hints that Ren's journey could manifest as a cracked mirror image of Luke Skywalker's path towards becoming a Jedi in the new trilogy, with the evil ingénue yet to come into his full powers in The Force Awakens.
Stevens can certainly testify to that and for all Brook's talk of feeling more comfortable at a bigger weight and the fact he will be entering a hometown ring on the back of his own undefeated record, it feels likely he will also end up as another staging post on Golovkin's path towards becoming the unified champion of the middleweight division.
The question is whether rival Facebook can catch up to MySpace in the U.S. (it has already surpassed it worldwide), or whether the two will co-exist and diverge, with MySpace being more music- and media-oreinted and Facebook continuing on its path towards becoming the platform for social software.
Musk doesn't think that the countries developing AI will themselves necessarily trigger WW3 by conscious act, however – rather, he believes that one of the AIs developed in the technological arms race could actually launch the triggering attack, if it determines for itself that doing so is the best probably path towards becoming the clear global leader.
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Combined, it may not be enough to derail Holder's path towards becoming attorney general.
And her supernatural path towards becoming the Question could be a compelling rival to Marvel's Jessica Jones.
