A film must sustain 13 months of buzz if it is to start in Park City and triumph in Hollywood.
It's by Ian Heads, which is always a good start, and details the triumph of the Western Division team from the New South Wales interior in beating the city slickers of Sydney – including the mighty Manly – in the 1974 Amco Cup.
Lappi had led from the start and sealed his triumph in the final Gregorlough stage between Dromore and Lurgan.
Girls presents a beautiful and heart-wrenching parade of broken dreams, false starts, and small triumphs that are at once distant and as close as your own skin.
It's a story with false starts and unexpected triumphs, told partly through oral history and always with a focus on the vivid characters who have been the backbone of the industry.
Natasha Jonas and Adams smiled from start to finish, through disappointment and triumph, and poor Savannah Marshall was dumbstruck in defeat, as was the team captain, Tom Stalker, who could find no words to express his disgust at losing a fight he was sure he had won.
She came through two races and led the final from the start to triumph.
It is, of course, the finale of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony that will make a performance rousing and exhilarating, but on Wednesday night, when the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and their chief conductor, Riccardo Chailly, presented the work at Carnegie Hall, one could feel confident right from the start that triumph was on the way.
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph.
Britain's first gold of the day came at Eton Dorney as the men's four of Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed, Andy Gregory and Tom James led from the start to triumph.
Andy Murray's tears and triumph.
