It goes on. A first Olympic diving gold, a first Olympic gymnastics gold, and then a second, from the same man, a few days later. Multiple Formula One world titles, Lions series won. The first woman in history to win an Olympic boxing gold, the first to retain one too.
And now another bequest, from a man who has already provided so much. A British tennis player as world number one is an idea as ludicrous to recent memory as anything else in that giddy list, but with Andy Murray, we should no longer be surprised.