Better yet, it was gold, and better still, they actually played her national anthem when she stood on the highest step of the podium.
"I still can't get used to this," Button said of standing on the highest step of the podium for the 14th time in his Formula One career.
As he stood on the highest step of the victory podium after the German Grand Prix today, Rubens Barrichello had several good reasons to break out in tears and make gestures of thanks to a man in the heavens.
He still appears rambunctious when spraying champagne from the highest step of the podium on Sunday afternoons, even though his dominance is in danger of becoming the stuff of quotidian tedium.
Schumacher refused to stand on the highest step of the podium, forcing a reluctant Barrichello to take that honor, and when Wolfgang Schüssel, Austria's chancellor, gave Schumacher the winner's trophy, he in turn handed it to Barrichello.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium – Sebastian Vettel returned to the highest step of the podium for the first time in four races, as the German driver for the Red Bull team won the Belgian Grand Prix, driving from pole position to victory.
The felicitous person who succeeds in reaching the highest step of knowledge becomes light himself (Asín Palacios 1942, Ittiṣâl, p. 19; Ibn Bâjja 1968, p. 168).
If your push up goal for the day is 40 for the last set try this: Do 10 repetitions leaning and somewhat upright on the high step of a stairs.
Yet others would say that the steps denote the various parts of the universe, with animals, human beings and celestial beings on the lower tiers and representations of the Supreme Being on the highest step, creating a pyramid of devotion.
