The pain of defeat: a series slips by in 2001
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Series defeat to the Wallabies in 2001 hit Jason Robinson and the rest of the Lions hard
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Brian O'Driscoll and Martin Johnson had to watch on as the Australians celebrated the third-Test win in Sydney
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O'Driscoll was simply superb throughout the tour but 2001 remains the closest he has come to series success
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Rob Henderson was one of the tour's surprise success stories but that didn't make defeat any easier to take for the Irish centre
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England flanker Martin Corry received a late call up and went on to star in the Test series
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Keith Wood was a talismanic figure both on and off the field in 1997 and 2001
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But the 29-23 defeat in the final rubber meant he didn't taste victory on back-to-back Lions adventures
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Jonny Wilkinson enhanced his own reputation on tour but he took the heartbreak harder than most
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Johnson couldn't hide his disappointment after narrowly failing to match his success in South Africa four years earlier
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It was a completely different feeling for Aussie skipper John Eales who added a Lions series success to two World Cup wins
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Andrew Walker and his Wallaby team-mates had plenty to smile about having come from 1-0 down to win the series 2-1
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The Wallabies understandably went wild in Sydney while the Lions were left to think of what might have been
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