Thanks to his good performance at Bilbao, Colom was pre-elected for playing the EuroBasket 2015 with the Spanish national team, but finally he was discarded.

With every edition of Die Matie a pre-elected editorial team member has the responsibility of compiling a supplement, either on: motoring, lifestyle, travel, science & technology and health.

Barry Bonds had been pre-elected as World Series MVP during the travel day, and would have been presented the award had the Giants held on to the lead in this game.

In May 1955 Batista released all of Cuba's political prisoners (including Castro) in an effort to win some popular support after he'd had himself pre-elected president in a fraudulent election held in February 1955.