Gemma Leakey's initial disappointment after winning silver at the World Indoor Championships speaks to the great ambitions of British athletes with just five months to go before the Olympics.
The 25-year-old's breakthrough first major medal in the 800m was the hosts' fourth and final medal at the Glasgow Games, where Josh Kerr and Molly Caudalie won gold for their home country.
At the end of the weekend, when Great Britain also won bronze in the women's 4x400m relay, World Athletics Federation president Lord Coe expressed his excitement at the country's Olympic prospects this summer.
“We head to Paris with some of the most exciting young athletes we've seen in generations,” he told BBC Sport.
Kerr's stunning 3,000m victory and Cordery's breakthrough pole vault win contributed to a sensational Saturday night for the hosts in Glasgow.
And following Sunday's relay bronze medal, which was an emotional milestone for twin sisters Laviai and Lina Nielsen, Leakey's hugely popular silver medal was a success for the small British team who finished fifth in the medal standings. It was a fitting finale to the weekend.
The early season promise of several world stars, including American sprinter Noah Lyles and Dutch record-breaker Femke Boll, is already building to the Paris Games, where the track and field program begins on August 1st. It's stirring excitement.
By then, British athletes will aim to qualify for the Olympics at the European Championships in Rome in June and the British Championships on July 8th and 9th.
