Sports articles rarely ascribe success in sport to a positive attitude.This attribute on its own may be considered too staid to illustrate the intensity of contemporary athletic endeavour and regarded as a bland generalisation, preventing descriptions of more exciting qualities of athleticism appreciated by today’s well-informed sports audiences.
Performances of rugby union’s British and Irish Lions to draw the 2017 series in New Zealand were described as ‘gritty’, with inspired team work and key players ‘putting up their hands’ (i.e. taking on greater workload at key times during a game). Team GB’s gold medal achievement in the 4×100m relay during the 2017 World Athletics Championship was praised as ‘clinical‘ and ‘a product of improved individual focus’. In England’s nine-run victory over India in the Women’s Cricket World Cup final, the match-winning six-wickets-for-46 bowling by Anya Shrubsole was attributed to confidence, determination and ambition, which have helped her develop prowess, not only in cricket, but across a range of sports.
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