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According to a deep result of \\textit{J. Koml\u00f3s}, \\textit{P. Major} and \\textit{G. Tusn\u00e1}dy [Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheor. verw. Geb. 32, 111-131 (1975; Zbl 0308.60029)] a version of the sequence \\(\\{\\alpha_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) and a sequence \\(\\{B_{n,1}:n\\geq 1\\}\\) of Brownian bridges can be constructed on a single (appropriate) probability space such that \\[ (1)\\qquad \\|\\alpha_n-B_{n,1}\\|=O(n^{-1/2}\\log n)\\;a.s.\\quad \\text{as} n\\to\\infty. \\] It is not possible to improve the rate of approximation in (1) to \\(o(n^{-1/2}\\log n)\\). Moreover, there exists a probability space carrying a version of \\(\\{\\alpha_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) and a Kiefer process \\(K(n,\\cdot)\\) such that \\[ (2)\\qquad \\|\\alpha_n-n^{-1/2}K(n,\\cdot)\\|=O(n^{-1/2}\\log^2n)\\;a.s.\\quad \\text{as} n\\to\\infty. \\] \\textit{M. Cs\u00f6rg\u0151} and \\textit{P. R\u00e9v\u00e9sz} [Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai 11, 59-71 (1975; Zbl 0315.62013)] obtained an approximation result corresponding to (1) for a sequence \\(\\{\\beta_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) of uniform quantile processes: There exist a version of \\(\\{\\beta_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) and a sequence \\(\\{B_{n,2}:n\\geq 1\\}\\) of Brownian bridges on a single probability space such that \\[ (3)\\qquad \\|\\beta_n-B_{n,2}\\|=O(n^{-1/2}\\log n)\\;a.s.\\quad \\text{as} n\\to\\infty. \\] Again, the rate of approximation cannot be improved to \\(o(n^{-1/2}\\log n)\\). By combining (2) with the Bahadur-Kiefer bound for the uniform empirical difference process \\(\\alpha_n+\\beta_n\\) a version of (2) can be established: For the sequence \\(\\{\\beta_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) pertaining to \\(\\{\\alpha_n:n\\geq 1\\}\\) from (2) and for \\(K'(n,t)=-K(n,t)\\) one has: \\[ (4)\\qquad \\limsup_{n\\to\\infty}n^{1/4}(\\log n)^{-1/2}(\\log\\log n)^{-1/4} \\|\\beta_n-n^{-1/2}K'(n,\\cdot)\\|=2^{-1/4} a.s. \\] A comparison of (1) - (4) has led to the conjecture that the \\(n^{-1/4}(\\log n)^{1/2}(\\log\\log n)^{1/4}\\)-rate of approximation in (4) is far from being optimal. In Ann. Probab. 25, No. 4, 2007-2054 (1997; Zbl 0902.60027), the author of the paper under review disproved this conjecture by showing that the approximation rate in (4) cannot be better than \\(O(n^{-1/4}(\\log n)^{-\\epsilon})\\) for any \\(\\epsilon>0\\). In this paper he solves the problem completely by proving the following deep result: There exists a universal constant \\(D\\) with \\(1/11