Fiercely competitive in her every move and gesture, Wieber was gracious in defeat despite the American media's efforts to stoke up a potential stand-off between her and Douglas with overtones of skating's Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.
Probables squad members Sam Davies (Ospreys) and Gavin Henson (Bath) are also potential stand-offs for the tour.
No one knows for sure how that potential stand-off might evolve, if it were to happen at all.
So we have a stand off between the businesses and the jobless.
A stand off between the club and players ensued.
If so, it would be the latest stand off between the teams and F1.
There are international worries as well: the potential for trade protectionism, a possible slowdown in global growth, a stand-off between the Italian government and the European Commission over a budget deficit and concerns about stability in China and the emerging markets more broadly.
This stand-off between adults, eyeing each other with suspicion as potential threats to children, dangerously threatens the sense of adult solidarity and partnership that's so necessary to socialising and indeed protecting children.
The stand-off between the world's second and third largest economies has the potential to hit international trade and slow the world economy further, unless China's new leaders, who are due to be unveiled next month, take steps to open diplomatic channels.
The stand-off between the government and protesters continued in the streets.
Yet MacMaster's folly coincided with a bloody stand-off between despots and democrats in Syria.
