The high point was reached last Tuesday evening when this magical chemistry aided and abetted dramatic victories for home athletes Niklas Kaul, who moved from seventh to first in the decathlon with a huge javelin throw and a concluding personal best in the 1500m, and Gina Luckenkemper, who drove herself into contention over the final five metres to take the women's 100m title by five thousandths of a second from Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji.

Had those contests taken place during the spectator-free days of the worst of the pandemic, it is hard to see the same results occurring. 

As it was, Munich’s Tumultuous Tuesday took its place in the athletics pantheon alongside London 2012’s Super Saturday and the Sydney 2000 Olympics' Magic Monday.

The athlete-supporter dynamic that occurred during these ear-buzzing durations was very well explained by another German competitor, Lea Meyer, who was inspired by home support to improve her personal best from 9min 25.61sec to 9:15.35, enough for silver behind Luiza Gega, who won Albania’s first title in the history of these Championships.

"This was my day and my race, I realized this around 2K," said Mayer. 

"I thought at 2K you can also fight on the last kilometre. Simply run those two laps, do not let anybody take this medal from you.

"It felt like a team achievement, the audience and me, we did this together. 

"The crowd helped so much. There was a moment when I backed a bit looking at the time, not believing how fast I was running. I thought 'you are being courageous. This is a hell of a pace!' But then I told myself 'You want a medal, so stick to her and fight.'

"Other German athletes had told me before the race that at the moment when you kick it, the crowd is on fire. 

"And it was like this. They carried me. When the crowds push you, your head says 'go' and the body says 'autsch' [ouch].

"This personal best, I did not think I could run so fast, I guess, nobody thought I could run such a time. I am a strong person. I had hoped for a 9.20 but never did I dream of a time around 9.15. I worked so well. They carried me."

France will be hoping, very hard, for the same phenomenon to take effect at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Just two years out from that staging, French athletes failed to earn a European athletics title for the first time since 1982.

This came a month after a World Athletics Championships in Oregon where, save for the decathlon gold of Kevin Mayer - who dropped out here after the first event - not a single medal was won for France.

To be fair, the ever-competitive Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, defending the 110m hurdles title he won by thousandths of a second in Berlin four years ago, lost by a single thousandth of a second to Spain's Asier Martinez.

Had the 30-year-old worn a slightly thicker vest he might have earned the gold that would have meant France finishing 12^th in the medals table. 

As it is, they finished 22^nd, with four silvers and five bronzes, behind Albania, Lithuania and Romania.

Up at the top, the hosts' concluding victory in a women’s 4x100m where the British women dropped the baton propelled them to first place - feature of the week - with seven golds, seven silvers and two bronzes for a total of 16.

Britain were second, with 20 medals and six golds, and third were Spain, with four golds, three silvers and three bronzes.

"You can’t say it’s correct because a European title is missing," Romain Barras, director of high performance at the French Athletics Federation (FFA), told francetv.space. 

"Unfortunately athletics is a sport of thousandths or centimetres and on the 110m hurdles you go to a thousandth of the gold…

"Nine medals, it’s a bit tight too, because some of our leaders with medals missed out. 

"Kevin Mayer, Renaud Lavillenie [seventh in the pole vault] and Quentin Bigot [seventh in men’s hammer] were dulled because they had built their peak for the Worlds in Eugene.

"But his assessment is not all black either because the 2024 generation is being built."

Among that generation are Just Kwaou-Mathey, who took bronze behind Martinot-Lagarde, Sasha Zoya, the world junior 110m record holder who finished last in the final after hitting a hurdle, long jump bronze medallist Jules Pommery and Wilfried Happio, who took 400m hurdles silver behind Norway’s defending champion Karsten Warholm.

Bubbling under meanwhile are athletes such as Julie Bonnin in the women’s pole vault, Solene Giquel in women’s high jump, Shana Grebo in the women’s 200m and Thibaut Collet, who missed bronze in the men’s pole vault on countback.

"These young people will learn a lot from this summer," Barras added. 

"All winter long they will let their teeth grow for the world championships in Budapest in 2023."

A year after that, French athletes will be awaiting the super-charging factor of home voices in the Stade de France…