Not only did they get results they got big results. Let me leave you with this story that was quoted in Reader's Digest. At 47 years of age, Jim Valvano, the former North Carolina State basketball coach, was suffering from terminal spinal cancer. You lose, ergo, you're a loser. You win, ergo, you're a winner.
Participation is what matters.
Trying your best, regardless of whether you win or lose that's what defines you. It took the coach 24 more years of living to find out how right the players were. It's effort, not result. God, what a great human being I could have been if I'd had this awareness back then. I know this is a ceremony to congratulate the winners, but this is not a zero-sum game.