agony

Wales head coach Gatland had indicated he hoped for ecstasy rather than agony this weekend but that was not to be the case and his position will come under scrutiny.

"But then, in later life, I found out why and that just compounded the agony."

In life, there are plenty of times when it makes sense to be gracious amid the agony of defeat.

“It was like a potboiler of an atmosphere. The amount of grief and agony you ingested every day was hard to process. For us, it was intense. The stakes being high, the crimes being so serious,” she told the BBC.

She battled through the "agony" in Paris to finish 78th in a time of 2:51:03 in 24C heat.