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Maybe you seen the promos for ESPN SportsCenter. There the one where Cherokee Parks tries to bribe Dan Patrick with his Rolex watch in exchange for some air time. There another where Roy Jones barters for the same thing with Mike Tirico, except he uses his championship boxing belts as bait. Jones says,van cleef copy alhambra necklace, got two. watched them and thought, hmmm. What a great job those SportsCenter guys have.
Last week ESPN coverage of the Great Alaska Shootout brought numerous employees of the network to town. Several local people helped out by keeping stats, including one who inquired about employment possibilities in ESPN Bristol, Conn., headquarters.
As it turns out, ESPN is always on the lookout for young, talented people to help out behind the scenes at SportsCenter. These people most of whom have just graduated from college or who have only been in the work force a short time are called production assistants, or PAs. At the end of six months, they graded and the best ones are hired permanently.
get a soup to nuts taste of studio production,van cleef & arpels copy necklace, said ESPN spokesman Dave Nagle. large duty they have is they serve as screeners watching games and picking out highlights. any given night, dozens of PAs gather in a room filled with television monitors. Each is assigned one game to watch and take notes on his or her observation, identify critical moments in the game and keep track of other highlights.
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Al Jaffe, ESPN director of talent and production recruitment, quizzes all prospective SportsCenter production assistants on their sports knowledge.
somewhat notorious around here, Nagle said of the test. It all verbal and somewhat off the cuff. It to test your knowledge and creativity. They want to make sure you remember who was in last year World Series and who was playing third base. other things, Jaffe tries to test a person knowledge of sports outside his or her geographical region. ask someone from San Diego about the Eastern Division of the NBA,van cleef copy necklaces, or he ask someone from Florida about Big Eight football, Nagle said.
Maybe you seen the promos for ESPN SportsCenter. There the one where Cherokee Parks tries to bribe Dan Patrick with his Rolex watch in exchange for some air time. There another where Roy Jones barters for the same thing with Mike Tirico, except he uses his championship boxing belts as bait. Jones says,van cleef copy alhambra necklace, got two. watched them and thought, hmmm. What a great job those SportsCenter guys have.
Last week ESPN coverage of the Great Alaska Shootout brought numerous employees of the network to town. Several local people helped out by keeping stats, including one who inquired about employment possibilities in ESPN Bristol, Conn., headquarters.
As it turns out, ESPN is always on the lookout for young, talented people to help out behind the scenes at SportsCenter. These people most of whom have just graduated from college or who have only been in the work force a short time are called production assistants, or PAs. At the end of six months, they graded and the best ones are hired permanently.
get a soup to nuts taste of studio production,van cleef & arpels copy necklace, said ESPN spokesman Dave Nagle. large duty they have is they serve as screeners watching games and picking out highlights. any given night, dozens of PAs gather in a room filled with television monitors. Each is assigned one game to watch and take notes on his or her observation, identify critical moments in the game and keep track of other highlights.
looks like NASA, Nagle said. probably a 40 by 70 (foot) room,van cleef knock off necklaces, and at night it a bit of a madhouse in there. keeping focused on your game when a dozen others are airing on screens right next to yours isn the toughest part of the job. The toughest thing could very well be making it through the interview each PA candidate goes through before getting hired.
Al Jaffe, ESPN director of talent and production recruitment, quizzes all prospective SportsCenter production assistants on their sports knowledge.
somewhat notorious around here, Nagle said of the test. It all verbal and somewhat off the cuff. It to test your knowledge and creativity. They want to make sure you remember who was in last year World Series and who was playing third base. other things, Jaffe tries to test a person knowledge of sports outside his or her geographical region. ask someone from San Diego about the Eastern Division of the NBA,van cleef copy necklaces, or he ask someone from Florida about Big Eight football, Nagle said.
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limit my search to r/Watchesuse the following search parameters to narrow your results:see the search faq for details.
First we looked at the Nato Straps which come in many different colors and styles,van cleef and arpels knock off necklace, but have many major negatives. Without the solid end link connection to the Rolex watch, a tremendous amount of pressure is applied to the spring bars,van cleef necklace replica wholesale, which can damage the lug holes of the Rolex watch. The Nato Strap could unintentionally damage the Rolex lugs and lug holes through continuous grinding and excessive jarring making them larger. In turn when you replace your Rolex bracelet after using a nato strap you could find it to be less snug and tight. We also realized that the Nato Strap or Nylon Straps, since being a nylon fabric based watch band, also took a tremendous amount of time to dry after being wet only momentarily. Eventually, we realized that we could not back this form of replacement watch band, as it was not up to the standards that Rolex owners expect their watch to perform at and could damage their Rolex. I don think that a NATO would put any more strain on spring bars or lugs than leather. If straps were putting so much strain on lug holes why isn this a super common issue among many manufacturers? If Rolex 904L steel lug holes can be so easily stretched and worn then why isn it happening to all the other companies using 316L? Also if that were the case then why would Rolex sell any of their models on leather? If NATOs were so terrible on watches then why does Rolex promote the use of them in Tudor pieces? I mean ultimately the fate of Tudor pieces does reflect on the Rolex name.
I really see this as a situation where a company is simply trying to make their product more appealing in the wrong way. They should focus on why their product is better rather than trying to claim that the alternatives are some how harmful,van cleef and arpel knock off necklace. My guess is they feel obligated to do this because they are selling an inflated good. The cost is inflated because it custom designed for Rolex cases,van cleef and arpels butterfly knock off necklace. However it not made by Rolex so it isn OEM and you can really justify those prices for rubber straps when they aren even being made by the manufacturer.
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And it is easy to imagine how this could spark the internal monologue of the depressive.
Just over a year ago, the Grand Hotel on the seafront, where Agatha Christie spent her honeymoon, was embroiled in a mystery suicide that could have been lifted from one of the queen of crime's books.
As plots go, it's not a bad one. A mysterious Asian freedom fighter is found dead in a luxury seaside hotel, his clothes neatly folded, the remains of a cyanide capsule mixed with Coke in a coffee cup.
A note in neat handwriting thanks the chefs for his last meal, but no other explanation is given. In fiction it should spark a series of crime solving exploits. The reality is somewhat more brutal: an unmarked grave for an unknown body.
Despite the burial of the man locals call "Mr Patel from the hotel", a conclusion to the case is no closer than when the hotel's housekeeper found the naked body of the man curled up on the floor of room 131.
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He paid the pounds 67 for the room in cash, ordered room service of a roast lamb dinner, washed it down with a bottle of Frascati, and then unclipped a black leather pouch necklace and ingested its contents. It was cyanide.
When police arrived they found a curiously ordered scene. Clothes were folded on a chair,replica van cleef earrings ebay, pounds 94.12 was arranged in separate piles of notes and coins on the table together with the poisoned coffee cup, a Ronson pen cum lighter and an empty wine glass. Only an ashtray brimming with Benson Hedges stubs suggested any inner turmoil. And on the desk was a message written on the hotel's pale blue notepaper.
It read: "I am very sorry for what I have done here, but this is the place. I had to be here to carry out the deed. The money for food is on the table. To the chef, the food was magnificent. Fit for the gods for a final meal. Thank you."
After exhausting all the local channels, the Salvation Army, the Missing Persons' Register, other police forces, public appeals,van cleef clover earrings replica, the man's identity remained a complete mystery.
But a chance conversation between the coroner's officer Robin Little and Guyan Fernando, a Home Office pathologist, threw up a bizarre new clue which prompted the involvement of Special Branch, Interpol and the Sri Lankan and Indian embassies.
Mr Little was puzzled by unusual scars on the body. He said: "I told him about two transverse scars on each shoulder and he told me immediately, He's a Tamil Tiger'."
Dr Fernando is Sri Lankan, and he said it was a tribal mark. He said that he was a Hindu, because he was not circumcised, and probably came from southern India. "When I told him he had died through cyanide, he told me, "They always carry a cyanide pill around with them, no matter where they are. It is in case he gets caught. You'll never find out who he is'."
And so it remains. A suspected Tamil Tiger chose Torquay to kill himself. But for the coroner, Hamish Turner, it is an "unsatisfactory state of affairs".
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Mr Turner said: "The intriguing thing is why he chose the Grand to carry out the deed. He had stayed at another hotel for a few nights but chose this one for the final act.
"One theory is that he knew about the Agatha Christie connection. I think she wrote a book called Sparkling Cyanide, and in some way he felt it was poetic. But it is very frustrating to have had this man on our hands for the past 12 months and we still do not know who he really is. In London, I am told, they get one or two of these a year, but never down here. We like to get our man."
Sentiments echoed by Constable Richard Fletcher, who said: "We've tried everything. I get a little annoyed about the Agatha Christie angle, which people go on about, and all this business about it being an exciting mystery.
"But somewhere out there is a mother who is missing a son . and she'll never know why."
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And it is easy to imagine how this could spark the internal monologue of the depressive.
Just over a year ago, the Grand Hotel on the seafront, where Agatha Christie spent her honeymoon, was embroiled in a mystery suicide that could have been lifted from one of the queen of crime's books.
As plots go, it's not a bad one. A mysterious Asian freedom fighter is found dead in a luxury seaside hotel, his clothes neatly folded, the remains of a cyanide capsule mixed with Coke in a coffee cup.
A note in neat handwriting thanks the chefs for his last meal, but no other explanation is given. In fiction it should spark a series of crime solving exploits. The reality is somewhat more brutal: an unmarked grave for an unknown body.
Despite the burial of the man locals call "Mr Patel from the hotel", a conclusion to the case is no closer than when the hotel's housekeeper found the naked body of the man curled up on the floor of room 131.
The man,replica van cleef and arpels stud earrings, aged around 35, had checked into the four star hotel the night before as Mr Patel. He had no luggage and constantly wore sunglasses.
He paid the pounds 67 for the room in cash, ordered room service of a roast lamb dinner, washed it down with a bottle of Frascati, and then unclipped a black leather pouch necklace and ingested its contents. It was cyanide.
When police arrived they found a curiously ordered scene. Clothes were folded on a chair,replica van cleef earrings ebay, pounds 94.12 was arranged in separate piles of notes and coins on the table together with the poisoned coffee cup, a Ronson pen cum lighter and an empty wine glass. Only an ashtray brimming with Benson Hedges stubs suggested any inner turmoil. And on the desk was a message written on the hotel's pale blue notepaper.
It read: "I am very sorry for what I have done here, but this is the place. I had to be here to carry out the deed. The money for food is on the table. To the chef, the food was magnificent. Fit for the gods for a final meal. Thank you."
After exhausting all the local channels, the Salvation Army, the Missing Persons' Register, other police forces, public appeals,van cleef clover earrings replica, the man's identity remained a complete mystery.
But a chance conversation between the coroner's officer Robin Little and Guyan Fernando, a Home Office pathologist, threw up a bizarre new clue which prompted the involvement of Special Branch, Interpol and the Sri Lankan and Indian embassies.
Mr Little was puzzled by unusual scars on the body. He said: "I told him about two transverse scars on each shoulder and he told me immediately, He's a Tamil Tiger'."
Dr Fernando is Sri Lankan, and he said it was a tribal mark. He said that he was a Hindu, because he was not circumcised, and probably came from southern India. "When I told him he had died through cyanide, he told me, "They always carry a cyanide pill around with them, no matter where they are. It is in case he gets caught. You'll never find out who he is'."
And so it remains. A suspected Tamil Tiger chose Torquay to kill himself. But for the coroner, Hamish Turner, it is an "unsatisfactory state of affairs".
Mr Turner has been at the helm for the past 32 years and not a single body has remained unidentified. Even two years ago, when a mauled body was hauled from the sea six miles out in the bay, the police still managed to track down and solve the murder of Rowland Pratt,replica vintage alhambra earrings, whose identity was stolen by Canadian fraudster Albert Walker, who was convicted of his killing earlier this year by working from the serial number of the body's Rolex watch.
Mr Turner said: "The intriguing thing is why he chose the Grand to carry out the deed. He had stayed at another hotel for a few nights but chose this one for the final act.
"One theory is that he knew about the Agatha Christie connection. I think she wrote a book called Sparkling Cyanide, and in some way he felt it was poetic. But it is very frustrating to have had this man on our hands for the past 12 months and we still do not know who he really is. In London, I am told, they get one or two of these a year, but never down here. We like to get our man."
Sentiments echoed by Constable Richard Fletcher, who said: "We've tried everything. I get a little annoyed about the Agatha Christie angle, which people go on about, and all this business about it being an exciting mystery.
"But somewhere out there is a mother who is missing a son . and she'll never know why."
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While on the lam overseas from a federal indictment accusing him of participating in a South Florida boiler room scheme, Gregory R. Attorney Marcos Daniel JimM inez said. Magistrate Peter Palermo in Miami that he was broke and needed a free lawyer. Attorney Peter Outerbridge said Swarn had $10,700 in cash on him when he was arrested,van cleef lotus earrings replica, flew first class, and wore an expensive Rolex watch and designer suits. Postal Inspection Service had confiscated all his cash. "At this point in time, I don't have any money," he said. "Any money I have is in their possession."
On Thursday, federal prosecutors will ask a judge to jail Swarn and his co defendants, Broward residents John W. Eckhardt, 40, and Craig Worrell Moncrieffe, 34, while they await trial.
Agents tracked Swarn by using an informant, an insider in his boiler room operation. According to court records, Swarn's cell phone conversations were caught on tape, including discussions of how to set up the stock swap scheme. He also was heard admitting he had fled to Bangkok.
The three are accused of setting up six fake companies that phoned investors who lost money in the stock market. tax requirements. Then,fake van cleef earrings, JimM inez said, they pocketed the money and "the investors never heard from the scamsters again."
To make the companies appear legitimate, Swarn and the others copied Web sites of reputable investment firms. At an afternoon news conference, JimM inez displayed a large photo of one of the defendants' Web sites, side by side with a photo of a Merrill Lynch site. The two appeared to be nearly identical.
The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a civil suit shutting down the companies. The suit was filed on behalf of 60 investors who allegedly were fleeced of more than $650,000.
According to court documents,van cleef stud earrings replica, Swarn hopped on board a Lufthansa flight at Miami International Airport on Jan. 24, as news of his earlier boiler room indictment broke.
The lead defendant in the 2003 indictment is former moving company operator John Porcaro, who disappeared several years ago and has been declared legally dead in state court. "He's a fugitive and we are looking for him," JimM inez said.
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more Earl Jones might have skin cancer: lawyerEarl Jones gets 11 years for $50M Ponzi schemeThe rise and ruin of Earl Jones
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more Part 3: Five ways to minimize your tax billPart 4: Don't overlook Tax Free Savings AccountsPart 5: Brokers help commercial tenants save moneyPart 6: How women can take control of finances
Comment: Aislin doesn't spare anyone in his latest book,sweet alhambra necklace replica, Was It Good For You?You know him as Aislin. His friends and colleagues know him as Terry Mosher. Others know him as a feared adversary and regard him with dread with just cause
more Photos: Aislin's 45th book, Was It Good for You?,van cleef arpel alhambra necklace fake, will be launched Sept. 28
Earl Jones's belongings for saleNeed some golf clubs, both men and women a Sun Mountain golf cart or a Rolex watch? All this and more will be on the auction block starting Jan. 24 when the trustee handling the business and personal bankruptcy of Earl Jones sell off the contents of his Dorval condo.
more Earl Jones victims settle for $17 million from Royal Bank of CanadaThe Royal Bank of Canada has signed a settlement deal and sidestepped a trial in a class action lawsuit by the victims of convicted con artist Earl Jones.
more Photos: Royal Bank settles with Earl Jones's victimsEarl Jones's old pad slips to $825KEarl Jones gets 11 years for $50M Ponzi schemeThe rise and ruin of Earl JonesEarl Jones fits sociopath profile: victims
Earl Jones's belongings find new homes during auctionElaine Winrow bought a 67 piece porcelain dinner set at an auction Sunday, not knowing that it had been owned by Earl Jones and his wife, Maxine.
more Earl Jones to victims: Sorry for ruining your livesEarl Jones's belongings for sale
Cracking down on investment fraudAMF moves in on predators as Quebec leads the way in prosecuting securities related cases
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Some of Earl Jones's victims get their money backIn dribs and drabs,van arpels and cleef necklace fake, some of the victims of Earl Jones are getting their money back. Danielle Manouvrier, a gardener in Mont Tremblant who did work for Jones and his wife at their condo, is the latest to get back the funds she entrusted to the disgraced money man.
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Earl Jones's old pad slips to $825KEarl Jones gets 11 years for $50M Ponzi schemeEarl Jones might have skin cancer: lawyer
Earl Jones's old pad slips to $825KIf you in the market for a waterside condo recently vacated by a disgraced money man, you in luck: There are deals to be had. The price on Earl Jones former Dorval residence is set to drop to $825,000 from the initial listing of $925,000.
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It is a neat irony that in this week of all weeks, as Federer seeks to seize the one piece of silverware he lacks at the Davis Cup final in Lille, the ties that bind his magisterial career have looked a bit more frayed. This might explain why he was so quick in trying to scotch the rumours of a rift with Wawrinka, posting a picture on Twitter of them joshing alongside captain Severin Lthi in the Swiss team room. The idea that questions were starting to be asked of his status as sport supreme being was intolerable. Federer depends as the Mercedes advert depicting him as idol, dad makes clear on the image of the superhuman.
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Where Woods is lampooned as a bad tipper and even more miserly autograph signer, Federer is celebrated for his endless generosity. At Wimbledon last year, he took several hours out to look after Beatriz Tinoco, a teenage cancer survivor from Maryland. Such stories sustain, for the army of Federer disciples, an unconditional love. Lesser mortals in the tennis realm would have been cat called without mercy had they pulled out of a season ending final one where front row seats cost 1,400 a throw at an hour notice. Federer,van cleef and arpel clover necklace fake, though, in the same way he has often been cheered more loudly than Andy Murray in their matches together, was applauded. It takes a rare figure in sport to transform a corner of North Greenwich into Basel upon Thames.
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A Davis Cup would, one senses, make Federer complete as he tentatively acknowledges the ravages of his advancing years. He used the expression my age not once but twice in his apology speech to the O2 crowd. His solitary French Open triumph in 2009 filled one of the gaps that had been bothering him. So, too, did his Olympics gold medal in doubles in Beijing, the one other major prize he has claimed in the company of Wawrinka. One last ticking of the box would be apt for Federer, whose professional end game has begun. It would identify him a feat of engineering as symmetrically perfect as his Rolex watch. Besides being as peerless on the backhand wing as the forehand, or fathering two sets of twins one of each sex, naturally he would confirm such perfect form as the player who won every trophy in the book.
It is oddly refreshing, however, that the narrative has not unfolded in quite the way we thought. This week was meant to be all about Federer quest for perfection as his autobiography, not without coincidence, is called but instead it has focused on some very rare blemishes. And yet, intimations of weakness somehow do not diminish him. His own instinct of self preservation, coupled with the intention of Fernando Santos, the coach, to wrap him in cotton wool, ensured abject value for money among fans who had paid 60 a ticket to watch his head to head with Lionel Messi. They had come to savour his mazy depredations down the flanks and were instead served up with a display of utter indolence and indifference that lasted only 45 minutes.
As Formula One sees out 2014 under the arc lights of Abu Dhabi, with every expectation of a second World Championship for Lewis Hamilton, it is worth remembering that not all its storylines reach such tidy resolution. For in Nice University Hospital, Jules Bianchi will continue his fight for life all through the off season and his fellow drivers long winter breaks. While it was reassuring yesterday to hear from parents Philippe and Christine that he had "made an important step" and was no longer in an artificial coma, he still requires around the clock care as his family search for a flicker of hope that the 25 year old future is not lost.
It is a precarious situation. And in any reflections upon this F1 campaign that it has been the most enthralling in years, that Hamilton duel with Rosberg has been the sport finest tussle since Prost versus Senna, that the V6 engines were not quite as alienating as everybody feared we should not forget its central tragedy.
So, the Swiss are at war. First time for everything. In the same way no one knows quite how the Swiss army knife came to include a nail file and a fish scaler, few can recall such consternation in the cantons as the past week outbreak of tennis strife. Given the place has been officially neutral for half a millennium, it has come as a jolt indeed to see Roger Federer, Mrs Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka and an unsuspecting French umpire caught up in a curious quadrilateral of quarrelling. One wonders what happened to the counsel of Saint Nicholas of Fle the Swiss touchstone for everything, from sport to global conflagration to get involved in other people affairs
It is a teaching to which Federer has readily subscribed. His effortless hauteur has always seemed to elevate him far above the vulgar pettiness of our flawed world. Until, that is, his good lady chose to heckle Wawrinka as a baby Within 24 hours,van cleef sweet alhambra necklace replica, many of the time honoured certainties that made up his universe of manicured perfection had dissolved.
First,van cleef mini necklace replica, he had been drawn into conflict with a man who was not simply a rival but a compatriot, his closest answer to a mate on tour. Second, Mirka, his one great constant and the silent choreographer of his empire, had been dragged into the mire when her jibe was picked up by a rogue microphone. And third,van cleef and arpels necklace clover fake, his illusion of indestructability, one that he had maintained through 60 consecutive straight grand slams and 1,221 matches without withdrawing from a tournament, came dramatically unstuck when he pulled out of last Sunday night O2 final to general astonishment. It was if nothing any longer made sense.
It is a neat irony that in this week of all weeks, as Federer seeks to seize the one piece of silverware he lacks at the Davis Cup final in Lille, the ties that bind his magisterial career have looked a bit more frayed. This might explain why he was so quick in trying to scotch the rumours of a rift with Wawrinka, posting a picture on Twitter of them joshing alongside captain Severin Lthi in the Swiss team room. The idea that questions were starting to be asked of his status as sport supreme being was intolerable. Federer depends as the Mercedes advert depicting him as idol, dad makes clear on the image of the superhuman.
There has never been a career as purer than pure as Federer It says much about his Mother Teresa like levels of virtue that at 33, the Wawrinka row, if we can even call it that, is the closest he has ever come to a scandal. Where the reputation of his friend and fellow sporting titan Tiger Woods was long ago shredded by a trail of adultery and deceit, Federer has remained a species apart, marvellously aloof from the faintest imputation of a flaw.
Where Woods is lampooned as a bad tipper and even more miserly autograph signer, Federer is celebrated for his endless generosity. At Wimbledon last year, he took several hours out to look after Beatriz Tinoco, a teenage cancer survivor from Maryland. Such stories sustain, for the army of Federer disciples, an unconditional love. Lesser mortals in the tennis realm would have been cat called without mercy had they pulled out of a season ending final one where front row seats cost 1,400 a throw at an hour notice. Federer,van cleef and arpel clover necklace fake, though, in the same way he has often been cheered more loudly than Andy Murray in their matches together, was applauded. It takes a rare figure in sport to transform a corner of North Greenwich into Basel upon Thames.
Mind you, it is easy to see how Wawrinka might resent him. As the Australian Open champion asides to umpire Cdric Mourier about Mirka suggested did it at Wimbledon as well! his relationship with Federer has sometimes been strained. Understandably, perhaps, given that his own slam glory in Melbourne last winter could have made him a national hero in Switzerland, had Federer not got there first with 17 of them. Martina Hingis once gave an intriguing insight into the potential for tension, saying: one of the reasons I moved to Florida. There more jealousy in Switzerland, because it so little and they don have so many athletes.
A Davis Cup would, one senses, make Federer complete as he tentatively acknowledges the ravages of his advancing years. He used the expression my age not once but twice in his apology speech to the O2 crowd. His solitary French Open triumph in 2009 filled one of the gaps that had been bothering him. So, too, did his Olympics gold medal in doubles in Beijing, the one other major prize he has claimed in the company of Wawrinka. One last ticking of the box would be apt for Federer, whose professional end game has begun. It would identify him a feat of engineering as symmetrically perfect as his Rolex watch. Besides being as peerless on the backhand wing as the forehand, or fathering two sets of twins one of each sex, naturally he would confirm such perfect form as the player who won every trophy in the book.
It is oddly refreshing, however, that the narrative has not unfolded in quite the way we thought. This week was meant to be all about Federer quest for perfection as his autobiography, not without coincidence, is called but instead it has focused on some very rare blemishes. And yet, intimations of weakness somehow do not diminish him. His own instinct of self preservation, coupled with the intention of Fernando Santos, the coach, to wrap him in cotton wool, ensured abject value for money among fans who had paid 60 a ticket to watch his head to head with Lionel Messi. They had come to savour his mazy depredations down the flanks and were instead served up with a display of utter indolence and indifference that lasted only 45 minutes.
As Formula One sees out 2014 under the arc lights of Abu Dhabi, with every expectation of a second World Championship for Lewis Hamilton, it is worth remembering that not all its storylines reach such tidy resolution. For in Nice University Hospital, Jules Bianchi will continue his fight for life all through the off season and his fellow drivers long winter breaks. While it was reassuring yesterday to hear from parents Philippe and Christine that he had "made an important step" and was no longer in an artificial coma, he still requires around the clock care as his family search for a flicker of hope that the 25 year old future is not lost.
It is a precarious situation. And in any reflections upon this F1 campaign that it has been the most enthralling in years, that Hamilton duel with Rosberg has been the sport finest tussle since Prost versus Senna, that the V6 engines were not quite as alienating as everybody feared we should not forget its central tragedy.