Event class: season, injury, due, however, back, injuries, play, games, year, team

Events with high posterior probability

Asafa Powell	Prior to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Powell hit back at the claims saying he lacked the mental strength needed to win an Olympic gold medal.
Akebono Tar?	he suffered another injury and, after sitting out the tournament in January 2001, he decided to retire rather than face a daunting struggle back to fighting fitness.
Sadanofuji Akihiro	Sadanofuji was the tsukebito of the upper division wrestler Iwakiyama for many years, but in 2009 his coach, seeing his potential, released him from his duties so he could concentrate on his sumo.
Ian Thorpe	Essentially saying that his (relatively) slow times in the 100 and 200 meters were the result of too short a period to train and prepare, Thorpe announced he will continue training, setting as his (new) goal qualifying for the World Championships in 2013.
Kitataiki Akeyoshi	He scored only 5-10 in that basho but returned to the maegashira 3 rank for the May 2011 Technical Examination Tournament.
Chris Guccione (tennis)	After recovering from the Achilles injury that had Guccione sidelined for over 6 months, he had finally made his comeback appearance at the Wimbledon tune-up event ; the 2010 Aegon Championships.
Riku Kiri	Kiri was also forced to drop out of the 1998 World's Strongest Man final due to an ankle injury, finishing in 6th place.
Kotomitsuki Keiji	Entering the January 2009 tournament with a gout problem in his right ankle, Kotomitsuki took his first make-koshi or losing record as an ōzeki, breaking a run of twenty consecutive kachi-koshi scores.
Glenn Hoddle	Hoddle's involvement in the following three seasons was limited by a number of niggling injury problems (he started only 76 of a possible 126 league matches) but nevertheless, Hoddle proved to be the architect behind the team's 1984 UEFA Cup triumph despite missing the Final due to fitness concerns.
Mike Hazelwood (water skier)	In March 1993, Hazelwood developed a new ski that he believed could bring him success at the Carlsberg Masters and attempted a comeback.
Bernard Tomic	Towards the end of 2008, Tomic stated that he would no longer compete in junior tournaments and instead focus solely on senior tournaments.
Valeriy Brumel	Even after undergoing 29 operations, though, he could never get his career back on track, though he jumped in 1970.
Greg Rutherford	Rutherford did not compete at the 2010 European Championships due to a foot injury.
Lee Yong-dae	Still struggling to find the right partner, he played several tournaments without getting any big results.
Gabe Molina	Although he never got a true opportunity in the majors throughout his career, his 2002 season would prove to be a major improvement, if not a pleasant surprise.
Andr?s Iniesta	Iniesta, however, did not want to come back until he was 100 percent and finally returned to action on 3 January 2009 as a 65th minute substitute against RCD Mallorca.
Royce Ring	Ring's performance suffered in the 2004 season and, for a time, he was no longer considered a top prospect.
Ian Hunter (rugby union)	He was noted throughout his career for being particularly fit - in 1993 he finished top of the England Squad (with a score on a par with the fitness required by an Olympic gold medal winner) on the much-vaunted VO2 test.
Kyle Mills	After an operation on a patella tendon and a winter of rehabilitation, Mills worked his way back to fitness to take part in New Zealand's tour of South Africa in November/December 2007.
Javier Sotomayor	He began training in Puerto Rico in spring 1997 for the outdoor season, but Cuban sports officials announced on 30 May 1997 that although Sotomayor was'' in good form'', he was withdrawing from the season's first big meet in Toronto and would instead make his season debut the following week at a track meet in France.
David Teague (basketball)	Early in the 2005 -- 06 season, Teague tore an ACL during practice, and later decided that the best thing to do was to return for a fifth season at full health.
Shirley Strong	In the years following Los Angeles, Strong was frequently troubled by problems with her achilles tendon and failed to qualify for the 1986 Commonwealth Games.
Maria Sharapova	2009 French Open | French Open, her best Grand Slam performance of 2009 Sharapova did not attempt to defend her Australian Open title, as she continued to recover from surgery.
Craig Roh	Weight gain and spring practice During the offseason, Roh gained 20 pounds to increase his weight to 251 pounds.
Robbie Bina	Bina underwent surgery to repair a shattered vertebra and was out for the remainder of the WCHA and NCAA tournaments (in which the Fighting Sioux reached the Final of the Frozen Four), as well as the entire 2005 -- 06 season.
Magnus Samuelsson	After a year's break, he returned to compete in the 2006 World's Strongest Man but failed to make to pass the qualifying rounds due to a back injury.
Corrado Grabbi	After spending 1 year without a team, trying to recover from the injury caused by a rare form of foot disease (Leveraus Morb) which had afflicted him for the past 3 seasons, he joined Genoa of Serie C 1/A in September 2005.
James Blake (tennis)	Blake's injuries and personal issues caused him to post relatively poor results for the first half of 2005.
Tochinowaka Michihiro	He only managed a 7-8 record in the following May'' technical examination tournament'' but in March 2012 he reached his highest rank to date, maegashira 1.
Andre Johnson	Many analysts doubted he would not be able to return to top form after his injury in 2011 and his limited production during the first half of the season.
Tamanoumi Masahiro	At first, he was unable to reach a score in double figures at ōzeki rank, but his results began to improve significantly from November 1967.
Delano Meriwether	After another injury prevented his chances of being selected for the 1976 Olympics, he retired from regular competition to concentrate on medicine.
Laurie Nash	Although Nash would claim that he was never prouder than when he was a soldier, Although out of shape and with arthritic knees, Nash announced that he was making a football comeback in 1945 and sought to return to South Melbourne, rather than Camberwell, to which he was still contracted.
Todd Wiltshire	Wiltshire headed back to the UK but failed to re-capture his previous seasons form and the World # 3 failed to make the World Final in 1991.
Priscilla Hill	She missed the 1980 Olympic season due to injury and was not able to challenge for a spot on the Olympic team.
Jeff Stewart (soccer)	Unfortunately, Stewart would suffer injury problems throughout the 2004 season as well and, combined with new competition from Nat Borchers, he did not see any playing time.
Ali Krieger	She recovered from a serious knee injury incurred in an Olympic-qualifying match for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but not in time to play in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Suso Santana	Suso's second season in Scotland was hit by injuries, and he never really managed to get a consistent run together, also having to undergo knee surgery in late April 2011.
Dane Spencer	Battling injuries during the 2006 season, he narrowly missed the Olympic team in 2006, and was back in North America in February to tune up for the remainder of the World Cup season in Europe with several events on the Nor-Am Cup circuit.
Jade Johnson	In November 2007 she had her lottery funding removed making it harder for her to return to top rank competition.
Vanessa Zambotti	A few weeks before 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, she underwent surgery and spent a year recovering.
Ibrahim Jeilan	He could not build upon his form in 2012 as he was ruled out for the entire season and missed the 2012 Summer Olympics, where his rival Farah won a long-distance double.
Ashley Sampi	Sampi's form seems to have often been related to weight issues ; during the 2007 pre-season, Sampi was at times required to train separately from the rest of the club to deal with his weight issues, however they seemed to come back under control, and he was reinstated to the main training list.
Robin Haase	Robin Haase meant to start the year playing in Chennai but because of troubles obtaining a visa he had to withdraw.
Stephen Strasburg	Strasburg's high profile and the success of the Nationals in the 2012 season made the innings limit a topic of national conversation.
Vijender Singh	Initially Vijender was not supposed to compete because of a back injury, but he recovered in time to win the tournament and qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Hugo Girard	He attempted to compete in the North America's Strongest Man Competition in 2007, but withdrew due to injury.
Damien Marsh	After suffering a ruptured achilles tendon injury during training for the 1996 Athens Olympics however, he never returned to such world-class form.
Nyjah Huston	An announcement on June 25, 2013 revealed that due to a rib injury, Huston was unable to compete in the Street League contest at the Munich X Games in late June 2013.
T. J. Houshmandzadeh	After the 2001 season, questions about Houshmandzadeh's speed led to him slimming down to his current playing weight of about 200 pounds, which increased his on-field performance remarkably.
Kyle Shewfelt	Shewfelt's long-held goal of Olympic gold was endangered when he severely bruised the talus bone in his ankle in March 2004, but he made a full recovery in time for Athens.
Helena ?lafsd?ttir	She missed almost the whole of the 1996 season following the birth of her son, Ólafur, only returning for the final match of the Úrvalsdeild campaign, a 5 -- 0 home win over ÍBA.
Saganohana Katsumi	In the Spring 1941 tournament, he received an 8-7 record at maegashira 1 and it was expected he would be promoted to the titled ranks, called sanyaku.
Baruto Kaito	Because he sat out the summer tournament 2013 due to injury, he was demoted to the jūryō division in September of 2013 and chose to retire on September the 11th.
Andy Turner (athlete)	A year later on English soil at the 2012 Olympics, Turner was one of the hurdlers to help Liu off the track after his injury and dramatic exit.
Towanoyama Yoshimitsu	However, on the day of his first match in the top division in March 2002, he injured his knee in training and was forced to pull out of the tournament without participating in a single bout.
Jan Hudec	Beset by injuries for several seasons, he returned to World Cup form in 2012 at age 30 and gained his second victory.
Leanda Cave	Cave struggled with injury in 2003 and was unable to defend her world title, although did take part in the BBC series Superstars.
Travis Blackley	Blackley was first selected for Australia in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, but did not play due to an ongoing shoulder injury (as cited above).
Lucas Radebe	However, in 2000 Radebe sustained serious knee and ankle injuries, which kept him out of the game for almost two years, and subsequently found it difficult to regain his form and his place in the team.
Kim Chizevsky	Over the years she continued to gradually add size to her frame ; at the 1997 Ms. Olympia, she competed at.
Monta Ellis	He was highly regarded as one of the players to watch during the 2006 summer league, but was unable to compete due to knee problems.
Scott Niedermayer	He was set to make his second Olympic appearance in 2006, however a knee injury suffered during NHL play that required surgery forced him to withdraw from the tournament.
Rick Nash	In 2006, shortly after returning from an injury, he was selected to play on Team Canada's Olympic team, but managed just one point in a disappointing seventh place finish.
Sam Sacksen	Being unable to participate in three events, including the World Championships, because of a severe ankle injury, Sacksen landed to thirty-eight place, and missed out of the national team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England.
Tommy Robredo	Robredo's start of the 2013 season did n't fare well, only managing two win in his first five events.
Ben Turner (weightlifter)	He decided to take the rest of 2006 off to allow his body to recover and to allow some injuries to heal and to investigate his ongoing knee problems.
Toyonoshima Daiki	However, after winning the jūryō championship in September 2005 with a strong 14-1 record, his fortunes began to turn and after some initial struggles, he has risen steadily through the ranks of makuuchi to his current position.
Clyde Rathbone	In 2009, after many injuries that have seen him sidelined, he decided to retire.
Kim Clijsters	On 18 August 2006, Clijsters announced on her official website that the condition of her wrist was worse than she had expected and that she would be unable to defend her title at the US Open.
DaQuan Jones	During the subsequent offseason, Jones committed to losing weight to become more quick, and dropped 25 pounds, coming into the 2013 season at 315 pounds.
Kerri-Anne Connor	Before the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, she took up the Pritikin Diet to lose weight.
Danny Lee (golfer)	After arriving back in Asia for the Singapore Open, Lee cited swing changes, illness and cold weather as reasons for his disappointing performance in Texas, and confirmed an intention to play mainly on the European Tour in 2010.
Gina Gogean	Her performances in the 1996 Olympics were particularly impressive, as Gina underwent an emergency appendectomy only 5 weeks before the competition.
Kenta Kurihara	Kurihara began his off-season workout in Arizona for the second straight year alongside teammates Shima and Kei Yoshida, bringing his body fat percentage back down to 9 percent (from its peak of 13 percent while he was out due to injury) and his weight to.
Andrew Slack	He temporarily retired from the international game in 1985 but returned the year after to lead Australia to an even greater achievement than the Grand Slam -- a series win on New Zealand soil, which put any doubt to rest over the Wallabies claims to being a world power.
Jake Wetzel	After a two-year pause because of a shoulder injury caused by a mountaineering accident, in 2003 Wetzel returned to the international rowing scene and he joined Team Canada.
Acie Law	After recovering from his injury, Law was able to shoot with either hand, but as of 2007 still primarily relied on his left-hand to shoot from a long distance.
Carlos Jorge Neto Martins	In the 2005 -- 06 season, despite the everpresent physical problems as well many disciplinary situations, Martins was still able to score two goals in only 13 starts.
Simona La Mantia	She struggled with injuries over the following years but regained form in May 2010, jumping over 14 metres for the first time in four years.
Fred Turner (footballer)	After a run of seventeen games, in which his'' quiet, thoughtful play'' enabled him to establish himself in the side, illness forced him to quit playing in February 1955.
Brian Booth	Booth struggled to make an impression early in his career and missed a season to prepare for the 1956 Olympics.
Sacha Jones	Jones was set to compete in the ASB Classic but had to withdraw due to an abdominal injury.
John Coleman (Australian footballer)	Coleman was unable to supervise his first training session until 6 April 1961 (the first home-and-away match was 15 April 1961), because he had come down with hepatitis on his return to Australia, following a two months holiday with Monica in India and Sri Lanka.
Sarah Jane Sands	Unfortunately, she did not reach the circuit until 1953, its next-to-final season, which prevented the full development of her qualities.
Zhang Nan (gymnast)	Over the course of the two years following the 2006 World Championships, Zhang struggled with keeping up her level of difficulty on her exercises and maintaining her weight.
Jo?l Smets	The 2005 season was another season he would not reach his true potential as he battled to match Everts on the track.
Dwayne Roloson	Months of intense rehabilitation would follow in order to prepare Roloson for the 2006 -- 07 season.
Phil Brassington	However, instead of giving away his career, Brassington worked on his knuckleball in order to keep him in the sport and after tinkering with it in a year of local club ball with Tuggeranong Vikings in Canberra, Brassington was selected for the 2006 World Baseball Classic and pitched against Venezuela.
Emily Webley-Smith	It recovered well enough in time for Webley-Smith to compete in the Wimbledon qualifying rounds however she reaggravated the injury later in the year and was unable to compete again until February 2010.
Joseba Beloki	He was reported as being fully recovered from his injuries by early 2004, but it later transpired that those injuries were taking longer to heal than initially anticipated.
Leonard Patrick Komon	Komon won the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in May but had a quiet season after failing to qualify for the 10,000 m at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
Shayla Worley	She was ready in time for the 2007 American Cup, but a fall on her uneven bars dismount meant she narrowly missed qualifying for finals ; she would have done so easily without this error.
Kakizoe T?ru	However, he suffered a big setback in May 2007, losing eleven bouts in a row before pulling out of the tournament citing a fracture to his right knee.
Shimotori Norio	He maintained his top division position until he turned in a poor 2-13 record at Maegashira 11 in January 2011, which would have seen him demoted to juryo had the March 2011 tournament not been cancelled.
Arvydas Sabonis	Another key moment for his future health took place in 1988 when Sabonis had a surgical Achilles procedure performed in Portland but was rushed back on the floor with the USSR Olympic team before a full recovery.
Jelena Dokic	In May 2013, Dokic said in an interview that she was training for a comeback attempt at smaller tournaments using an injury protected ranking.
Niels de Ruiter	De Ruiter played very few tournaments in 2008 due to suffering from vertigo and quit darts for three months until he came back to the game.
Timmy McCarthy	McCarthy accordingly began the 2009 National League campaign with a new squad, none of whom had been able to make the previous year's panel.
Roddy White	During the 2013 season, White was dealing with an ankle injury and a hamstring injury, which caused him to get off to a very slow start.