The stars are finally aligning for British sport.
Earlier this month, Andy Murray broke a seven-decade lockout for the British, in straight sets against six-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic.
NPR's Philip Reeve's described the reaction in the U.K. as a amid calls for the Scotsman to be given a knighthood.
Murray's victory came as the British and Irish Lions , handily defeating Australia's Wallabies.
Meanwhile, British cyclist Christopher Froome is about to win the Tour de France, becoming the second-consecutive (and second ever) Brit to wear the yellow jersey across the finish line in Paris.
Although Lee Westwood — who teed off on Sunday at the British Open with a solid shot at the championship — fell short, the sting was offset by in June.
The Guardian's Tim Adams, wonders aloud "precisely when the great shift – the national conversion from doubt to faith – occurred."
"For me the real instant of revelation came watching fall two sets behind against the hard-hitting Spaniard . The unnerving shift in perception at that moment went against all the cynical received wisdom of the first four decades of my sport-watching life."
And as Reeves observes, even before Murray's victory at Wimbledon, the "usually hard-nosed" Sunday Timescaptured the mood in the opening line of a front page story proclaiming morning in the U.K. again:
"Britain is basking in unaccustomed sunshine, sporting triumph and the best spirits for three years this weekend," it gushed.
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