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?]
(..) I'd expect everyone has a reason to be nervous tonight. I don't know. So perhaps it's the opposite... A failure to behave naturally. An actor so consumed with his performance that.. The one characteristic he can not accommodate, Is spontaneous reaction. ♪ Speaking french ♪ Brother. (..)2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows