"The best thing would have been a gold medal but the second best thing is to take the positives from this performance, build on it and use the experience".
"The best thing would have been a gold medal but the second best thing is to take the positives from this performance, build on it and use the experience". "Once they went down to three riders when Ed Clancy dropped out, I thought I was going to lose my voice doing the commentary.
It was a performance built on the leadership of John Terry, the one unchanging figure in the centre of the Chelsea defence, who scored the first goal and lunged in to block a shot from Harry Kane on 87 minutes.
Relaxed, with impeccable timing, he gave a warm but controlled hourlong performance built on small, shrewdly targeted observations.
Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis said that Treadwell's adventures with grizzlies amounted to "a kind of performance, built on lies and truth and played out on the stage of celebrity".
Bloomsbury's spectacular trading performance, built on the Harry Potter phenomenon, has been an incredible success story for shareholders, but it has also saddled the company with expectations of spectacular year-on-year growth.
They finished the regular season with Super League's best attack and defence and for that reason alone are perhaps deserved league leaders, earning a home semi-final against St Helens on Thursday following a performance built on guts, desire and pride.
But Kyrgios's nerveless performance, built on a serve to inspire fear and admiration, embroidered the occasion so completely with his free spirit and irresistible power that it was easy to ignore that Nadal hit 44 winners and only 18 unforced errors – stats to win most matches – and still could not subdue the youthful charge of a wildcard ranked 144 in the world.
It was a performance built on confident defending – Liverpool kept a third consecutive away clean sheet for only the second time in seven years – industrious and creative midfield play embodied by James Milner, who now leads the way for assists in this season's Champions League, and of course a devastating attack.
As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.
The overall sense, though, was of a mature, resounding performance built on the soundness of Celtic's defence and the ferocious work rate of the players.
