Event planners hope to avoid a 'repeat performance' of last year's problems. [=hope that last year's problems will not happen again this year]
a bicyclist who was disqualified for taking 'performance'-enhancing drugs [=drugs that improve your ability to do something]
How has the company's stock 'performance' been? [=has the value of the company's stock been increasing/decreasing?]
(..) ... not be able to go that far. Can we do one where he goes ... ... two and try to start back the other way? All of his performances were more fluid. There was this extra whole emotional inertia that ... ... allowed him to stretch his body ... (..)2001 The Matrix Revisited