mission accomplished¿

target achieved!

+++Tatiana

Uli, why not to say "the goal IS reached" ?

It’s not idiomatic. As an exclamation of success, we tend to leave out the article: Game over! Race won! Mission accomplished! Suspect apprehended! Object spotted! Etc.

I see, but besides being "not idiomatic" this is a correct form of saying it, right?

One is a fact, the other is an exclamation.

Basically, if we remove the exclamation sign from the original then saying "the goal is reached" is totally fine, right?

Right. Then it just becomes a fact.

Actually, the goal HAS BEEN reached.