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This points to the emotional arc of sports, and by extension of life, where hope is followed by disappointment more often than triumph. The line reads as a sober reminder that the real drama is not in winning alone, but in enduring the long stretch between expectation and loss. It lands for anyone who has watched an early promise fade by the end of a season.
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Originally said in English.
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About John Thorn
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