The US opening may have offered a disappointing $8.6m£6.64m4m), but Bridget Jones's Baby delivered a storming victory on home turf, with a UK debut of £8.11m.
Late in the day Jason Kenny produced the perfect end note with a storming victory in the kierin, his third gold at these Games, his sixth in total and a step up into the pantheon alongside Sir Chris Hoy as the British athlete with the most Olympic golds.
Last May, the Five Star Movement (M5S), inspired by the comic Beppe Grillo, astonished pundits by storming to victory in a local election in the city of Parma.
When James Dasaolu suffered a hamstring strain before the world indoor championship, the Teesside Tornado, Richard Kilty, stepped in and shocked everyone by storming to victory.
He did his duty by Ed Miliband by saying that he expected Labour to win, but it is fair to say that Mr Cook did not exactly radiate confidence that his party is storming to victory.
Jeremy Corbyn has defied critics questioning his ability to win elections by storming to victory in the 2015 Parliamentary Beard of the Year competition, winning the prize for a record sixth time.
A trainee accountant from Wiltshire was on Saturday crowned the "Usain Bolt of the water" after storming to victory in the men's 200m kayak sprint, helping to boost Britain's best medal haul for 104 years.
After running a perfect bend before storming to victory in 19.89sec, ahead of his countryman Jason Young, who ran 19.99, Weir left few doubts that he is ready to take the fight to Bolt.
But it is not one with a recent record of storming to victory at general elections in Britain.During the race for the Labour leadership last year, supporters of David Miliband would say that his brother represented "comfort zone Labour", that he would allow the party to indulge its ideological preferences at the cost its electability.
Frankel maintained his 100% record by storming to victory by five lengths in the JLT Lockinge Stakes at Newbury.
Last year's winner Conchita Wurst - who earned host country Austria an automatic place after storming to victory in Copenhagen - opened the semi-final with a performance of Rise Like A Phoenix, before switching to her other role hosting this year's green room.
