When it was decided that a statue should be commissioned in recognition of the achievements of Taylah Harris in Australian Rules football, I can't say that I thought it was a great idea.
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Sure it replicated an iconic moment in the emergence of the women's game but here was an emerging talent going up in bronze well before her career had reached its zenith.
Isn't that when we ought to do the big recognitions - when it's all over - done and decorated?
Much more logical for this perhaps old-fashioned pundit when Nova Peris was immortalised not too far distant from where the Harris statue was first positioned in Melbourne's Federation Square.
Nova was long-retired - apart from the occasional reality television appearance. But even more compelling was her stature as Australia's first indigenous Olympic gold medallist.
It's a good starting point for consideration as to exactly when is the right time in a career to take an extra special step in recognition of a great achiever.
When the Launceston City Council initiated community feedback as to how Ariarne Titmus's super gold medal swims at the Tokyo Olympics could be recognised, the ding-ding-ding rang loud in my thoughts.
She is young - as she herself says - at a point in her career which is only part-way. Hopefully there is much more to come.
There was a risk of going too far - for those of us who saw it that way - a risk of another Taylah Harris moment.
But it's actually much more akin to a Nova Peris moment. Because like Nova, Ariane represents a first - in this case Tasmania's first individual Olympic gold medallist.
That's a done deal - an established fact - an achievement that cannot be out-done - unless there is some revelation out-of-the-blue of the Tasmanian heritage of another of the nation's individual Olympic gold medal winners.
So for me it was entirely appropriate on Friday that the Mayor should hand over the key to the City of Launceston. If and when the naming of the 50-metre pool at the Aquatic Centre follows - that's pretty good too.
And of course this leaves the stature option for the far distant future when, as we all hope will be the case, an even more glittering career eventually comes to a close.
But now is a special moment - for it has taken 125 years for a Tasmanian to achieve that honour.
Those who have gone before depict a proud sporting heritage of the Island State. Six have now won Olympic gold - the previous five, Michael Grenda (cycling 1984), Maree Fish (hockey 1988), Stephen Hawkins (rowing 1992), Matthew Wells (hockey 2004) and Scott Brennan (rowing 2008) as members of teams.
The first Tasmanians to make it to an Olympics were Cecil McVilly and William Stewart in rowing and athletics respectively at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
McVilly was disqualified in the heats of the single skulls after his faulty steering equipment caused a collision with a German rival. Stewart won his heats of both the 100m and 200m before exiting at the semi-final stages. Soon after both were in a different uniform in World War I.
The state's first Olympic medallist of any colour was David Lean who was part of Australia's silver medal-winning 4x400m team in athletics at the country's first home Games in Melbourne in 1956. He wasn't that far off an individual bronze as well - finishing fifth in the 400m hurdles final.
He has lived since then in the United States and in his later years has taken to the concert piano - even recording his own CD.
Those Games also saw the first Tasmanian woman at an Olympic Games when then 17-year-old Heather Innes from Smithton competed in the javelin throw. She later had distinguished careers in policing and aviation and is no doubt proud that it is another young Tasmanian female who has delivered that first individual gold.
In closing, it should be noted for the record that the Taylah Harris statue was not a publicly commissioned activity in the way these things are normally done. It was a gesture of the National Australia Bank and in fact the first iteration in Federation Square was only a prototype of the permanent version that was later located at the bank's Docklands headquarters.