It will be interesting to see how Ilderton's Scott Moir and partner Tessa Virtue fare in their second Olympics, when their skating has matured and their familiarity with celebrity is more complete.
By rights they could retire now, just days removed from their first Games. Already they're at the pinnacle of their sport. Already they are darlings not only of their home communities but of the country at large.
A sign visible at the edge of Ilderton shortly after the two won Olympic gold in ice dance last week re-dubbed the village "Moirtown."
That says it all, really: Ilderton isn't perhaps the largest kingdom to rule, but it is now Moir's. It will be his for quite some time.
He is, after all, one half of the first North American duo to win Olympic ice dance gold, and a member of the youngest pair ever to do so.
His name is etched not only in the ever-shifting sand of Olympic lore, but the bedrock of Canadian history.
Winning silver or bronze would have been enough to make Moir and Virtue beloved; making history will make them difficult to forget.
Heady stuff two two kids, just barely removed from their teen years, for whom all of the best of the ice dance world will be gunning in the months and years ahead.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with early success. It's a tribute to any athlete's talent, commitment and pedigree. It is the product of years of hard work, countless hours of practice, and in this case it is richly deserved.
The thing Moir and Virtue will find is that it can be difficult to sustain that success, and there are plenty in their sport who see bull's-eyes on their backs.
They'll have to face all kinds of pressures they've only experienced in mild form thus far: constant questions from both the mainstream press and celebrity paparazzi.
They'll face not only constant dissections of their performance on the ice, but questions about their relationship off it.
Are they a couple? The entertainment media will want to know. Do they have feelings for one another? Has it always been this way?
In a sport that is so heavily dependent on chemistry between partners, the implications are quite severe, and it would be surprising if off-ice issues do not intrude, at least temporarily, into their performances.
People in Ilderton, London and their surrounding communities burst with pride these days for Moir and Virtue, and that's as it should be. Much of the country, and much of the country's sports media, is with them.
They are part of Canada's shared experience at these Olympics, and we likely owe them something for that.
What they likely realize, and will have to face as their careers progress, is that the rest of the world might not feel the same way.
They probably know, or will soon find out, that staying at the pinnacle of one's profession can be harder than getting there in the first place.