Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted?
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won".
Katherine Grainger, partnered by Anna Watkins, finally added an emotional gold to the three silvers she had previously earned and a third female duo, Sophie Hosking and Kat Copeland, leapt out of the shadows to win the lightweight women's double sculls.
And that has been the rebirth of Manchester City under their Abu Dhabi-based owners, coming out of the shadows to win the title twice, adding insult to injury by helping themselves to a succession of Arsenal players such as Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Adebayor, Samir Nasri and Bacary Sagna in the process.
In 2008, the novel, along with Ender's Shadow, won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.
China's martial arts film Shadow won the most awards at the ceremony, four in all, for technical achievements.
Soudade Kaadan's feature film The Day I Lost My Shadow won big at the Venice film festival just weeks ago.
Mark Knopfler won a lifetime achievement while other prizes given out at the central London ceremony included Stan Tracey winning the first Novello jazz award; BBC2's The Shadow Line winning best TV soundtrack; while Alex Heffes came away with the best original film score for The First Grader.
The playwright, whose 1977 play about terminal illness, "The Shadow Box," won the Pulitzer Prize, returns in "Amazing Grace" to the subject of imminent death.
Four MISTI students' creative use of shadow won them a prize for this picture from the Jordanian desert.
Until then, he had been a longtime support rider to top cyclists like Lance Armstrong, always working in the shadows to help others win.
