But the welterweight Vernon Forrest claimed that he had foreseen his victory over Shane Mosley in the kind of vision usually attributed to the likes of Nostradamus.
While the winners in 2011 (Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life) and 2012 (Michael Haneke's Amour) went into the festivals as favourites, only the canniest could have foreseen a victory for Kechiche.
Even fewer could have foreseen primary victories for Sharron Angle in Nevada, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Raul Labrador in Idaho, Mo Brooks in Alabama, and much less that challenger Mike Lee would finish ahead of incumbent Senator Bob Bennett in the three-way race for the GOP nomination in Utah.
He also foresaw impending victory parades.
The scale of the victory was foreseen by none of them, and seemed to have left many dazed and confused.
In stops here and earlier in Stockton and Oakland, Mr. Bush stuck to familiar themes as he sought to lock up a primary victory already foreseen by all public polls here.
Franklin Roosevelt included him, as a young congressman, in a fact-finding mission to wartime China (he foresaw a communist victory).
Even while acknowledging the failure to foresee a Hamas victory, Ms. Rice said the American decisions were basically correct.
They foresee a French victory, by a margin of 12 points says Jones, six or seven is Barnes's verdict.
Since Tuesday night, there has been a lot of handwringing about how the media, with all its fancy analytics, failed to foresee Donald Trump's victory.
As nobody foresaw Mr Peretz's victory over Mr Peres last week, nobody now dares make a prediction for the showdown to come or how the result may affect the chances of peace with the Palestinians.
