Sentence examples for finals stage from inspiring English sources

Twelve months ago, James left the finals stage defeated and embittered, deriding those who had rooted for his failure.

The last time the Spurs appeared on the finals stage, six years ago, they were walking off with a four-game sweep of James's Cleveland Cavaliers.

Instead of celebrating a championship — Duncan's fifth, Parker and Ginobili's fourth — the Spurs are preparing for one more game, possibly their last on the finals stage with this group.

LeBron James & Co. now enter the N.B.A. finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, as predicted, with James playing the best basketball of his life, Adrian Wojnarowski writes on Yahoo.com, and the James psychological thriller moving into the Can He Conquer the Finals stage.

Having drawn 0-0 in Moscow, Mark Hughes' side were confident of reaching the finals stage of the European Championships for the first time since 1976.

Wales' only appearance at the finals stage of a major competition remains the 1958 World Cup - and it was a play-off win against Israel that sealed their passage to Sweden.

All eight group stage winners progressed to the quarter-finals stage for the first time in World Cup history.

Both of Team GB's football teams have made it through to the quarter-finals stage and keeper Karen Bardsley has her sights set on medal success.

They stumbled at the semi-finals stage of their two other appearances: in 1994 to Burnley and in 2015 to Wycombe Wanderers.

That offence carries a mandatory five-match stadium ban which, if applied to competitive matches, would have sidelined him until after the World Cup quarter-finals stage.

If Lendl's defeat was understandable under the circumstances, the exit of Navratilova from the women's singles at the semi-finals stage was a bolt from the blue.