He missed selection in 1966, but returned with a vengeance for Lugano 1968, and made a phenomenal 11 / 12 for another gold medal as second reserve.

He missed two games as a junior with a broken finger, but still led the team in receiving with 41 catches for 578 yards and four scores, and was an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection.

He was reported to have missed out on selection for Ashford in December 1994 after failing to get to the selection meeting as a result of train delays.

Hughes fell one run short of a century against the tourists for Western Australia but missed out on selection for the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, instead named as twelfth man.

He was never in the running for Test selection that season, although his presence may have been missed as the English batting was unreliable in the Tests.

Holmström was first noticed by Red Wings scout Håkan Andersson in 1993 during a national team selection camp, where Holmström missed the cut, then again the next year while playing with Boden where his coach, Niklas Wikegård, told Andersson that Holmström was the team's best player.

Tait missed the Australian cricket team's tour of India in October 2007 due to a complicated recovery after elbow surgery in June 2007 however once he recovered he gained selection ahead of Stuart Clark for the 2007 – 08 Chappell – Hadlee series in December 2007.

On lap 2, Berger missed a gear selection allowing Mansell to get ahead.

He missed out on selection for the 1997 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in favour of Matt Dawson and Austin Healey, but was called up as injury replacement for Rob Howley but did not play in the tests.

He missed out on selection for 2001 Lions tour to Australia, instead captaining England on a three match development tour of North America.

Returning to England in the summer of 1917, he narrowly missed selection for Keyes's operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend owing to his war wounds, and instead trained crews of coastal torpedo boats, a role which led to a distant posting in the Caspian Sea during the Russian Civil War, fighting the Bolshevik forces along the Russian coastline.

Highlights of his career include winning the Stanley Cup in 1986 while with the Canadiens, being named to play for Team USA in the 1987 Canada Cup and his controversial all-star selection to the 1991 NHL All-Star Game by his then-coach Mike Milbury ( Nilan missed the game with a broken left ankle ), which led to changes in how players are selected for all-star games.

He graduated with a leading Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1929, and narrowly missed selection for a Rhodes Scholarship.

As a result, he missed the national selection for the tour to New Zealand.

The following summer, with no Test matches, New South Wales ' international representatives were available for the entire season, and Fingleton missed selection for every match.

Brown missed selection for the tour opener against Worcestershire — in which Australia traditionally fielded its first-choice XI — before making his debut in the second match against Leicestershire.

He narrowly missed selection to the final 30 for the 2003 Rugby World Cup because of a back problem, although he had celebrated his first Six Nations Championship start some months earlier with a try in the match against Italy.

He unfortunately just missed out on selection for the RWC 2007.

Illingworth missed out on selection for the first two Test matches, but was recalled for the Third Test at Trent Bridge, and took the wicket of Phil Simmons with his first ball in Test cricket, the first bowler since Intikhab Alam in 1959 / 60 to achieve this feat, and only the eleventh of all time.

A member of England ’ s wider 2003 World Cup squad, he narrowly missed selection to the final 30.

She missed selection for the 2005 World Cup, but in the 2005 / 06 season she was a key performer for New Zealand A in matches against the White Ferns and India.

Katey debuted for the White Ferns on the 2003 / 04 tour to India where she played 3 ODIs, but has missed selection in recent seasons.

He also helped Porto to an unprecedented run of European success and, while he missed selection for the 2003 UEFA Cup final-winning squad, he was a substitute when the Dragons won the UEFA Champions League against AS Monaco FC, in the following year.

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when Palmer missed the putt.

Mercia was arguably the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom for much of the late 7th and 8th centuries, though Mercian kings are missed out of the two main ' lists '.

One of the most notable of these returns came on November 12, 2006, when he returned a missed field goal for a 108-yard touchdown.

Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.

In 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

This formation allows for quicker recovery in the event of a missed play.

Banks was not troubled again until the final minute, when he saved a shot from Siggy Held and moments later could only watch as Uwe Seeler lunged for the ball and missed.

Afterwards, there had been several debates about whether a real chance for reunification had been missed in 1952.

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

First on November 11, with the Chargers up only 23-21 and despite five Manning interceptions, the Colts closed to range of a 29-yard field goal try for Adam Vinatieri, a kick that shockingly missed ; Manning then threw a sixth interception and the Chargers won.

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

In Aristotle he missed the provision for the immortality of the soul, and in his ethics the tendency toward the eternal.

Meanwhile, Alexander II invaded northern England again, taking Carlisle in August and then marching south to give homage to Prince Louis for his English possessions ; John narrowly missed intercepting Alexander along the way.

Critics denounced him for having missed an opportunity for German reunification.

In 2010, a rebuilding year, the Wizards finished third in the Eastern Conference and narrowly missed qualifying for the playoffs.

With time winding down the Saints threw backward passes and brought the ball down the length of the field for a touchdown, but kicker John Carney missed the extra point, which would have tied the game, so the Saints lost by one point, 20 – 19.

Ace closer Rollie Fingers missed the playoffs due to a torn muscle in his throwing arm that not only kept him out for the entire playoffs but also would have him miss the entire 1983 season.

The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.