School of sport: When defeat means victory
Defeat and victory are often millimetres or moments apart, not to mention meanings apart. Sports writers love to refer to Pyrrhic victories of teams where the team may have won but they have done so at a huge cost, perhaps making the ordeal to win not worth it, being so-called after Pyrrhus, a king of Epirus defeated the Romans in 279 BC but lost many of his troops.
By The Standard
Apr. 17, 2022
School of sport: When defeat means victory
Defeat and victory are often millimetres or moments apart, not to mention meanings apart. Sports writers love to refer to Pyrrhic victories of teams where the team may have won but they have done so at a huge cost, perhaps making the ordeal to win not worth it, being so-called after Pyrrhus, a king of Epirus defeated the Romans in 279 BC but lost many of his troops.
By The Standard
Apr. 17, 2022
