Sentence examples for podium performer from inspiring English sources

Taking third on what is only Wiggins' second bid for overall classification in a three-week stage race would make him Britain's first podium performer.

Royal Yachting Association Olympic manager Stephen Park added: "Helena has worked tirelessly in what is the most competitive of the Paralympic sailing events to get herself to be a consistent podium performer and to be challenging the likes of the Dutch and French.

Veteran actors such as John Cusack and Julianne Moore took to the podium alongside younger performers Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson – the last named having become a serial collaborator with Cronenberg after starring in the director's last film, the Don DeLillo adaptation Cosmopolis.

The Last Prom was the best in years, thanks to resplendent performances by the irresistible Joyce DiDonato and the evergreen Nigel Kennedy, plus the galvanising presence of Marin Alsop on the podium: the chemistry between performers and audience was wonderfully infectious.

WD Snodgrass, a wonderful poet who is always an exuberant performer on the podium, was dismayed one year in Edinburgh to be given a fearful ticking off by Auden for the manner of his reading.

He goes on: "He's smart and people can see him walking into the Oval Office but he's a terrible performer behind a podium and has zero policy specifics".

Quite often management books look to the symphony orchestra for examples of leadership in action: the conductor on the podium, conjuring wonderful music from a group of performers who would be rudderless without the man or woman with the stick.

There was a rolling podium and five unlocked players who were actually performers," she explains to The Creators Project.

But the orchestra didn't take any chances on the performers: Robert Spano, who has conducted the work several times (including the premiere and the recording), was on the podium, and the vocal soloists have each performed it several times.

The performers who step up to Mr. Derky's podium follow his lead and take risks, reading works by exiled poets or flirting with risky political subjects.

Two of the best performers in the first run failed to make the podium, including favorite Hoefl-Riesch, who took fourth place and announced between the first and second run that this will be her final Olympics.