Sporting fails: the worst penalty, dive, celebration, homecoming and collective Olympic disasters from 2012 Throw-in Of The Year Alexander Tettey of Norwich City offers his on-pitch resignation from ever taking over throw-in duties for any club at any time for the rest of his career: Early Celebration Of The Year Pride comes before a fall. Never truer than in the case of Bath's Sam Vesty, whose premature raise of the arm went some way to costing his side a Heineken Cup place: Free Kick Of The Year Evanildo Rodrigues of El Jaish, one of Qatar's top-flight teams, does his bit to convince the rest of us that all the critics of the country hosting a World Cup probably, you know, may have a bit of a point: Miss Of The Year This year's keenly contested 'Ronny Rosenthal award for services to missing from an impossibly short distance' goes to a man once, but no longer, known as 'The Leo Messi of the Adriatic', Lorenzo Insigne of Pescara. All together now, 'My Mum/my Grandmother/Emile Heskey (pre-Australia) could have scored from there!' Delivery Of The Year When Jonathan Trott smacked this sub-dolly of a ball to the boundary in the fourth Test of England's victorious tour of India the locals weren't pleased with his lack of sportsmanship. The lack of sporting ability, however, from Ravindra Jadeja was undoubtedly worse. Stop Of The Year In a World T20 match that produced a masterclass in the art of the dropped catch one man stood head, shoulders and butter-fingers above the rest. Step forward Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir: Reverse Belly Flop Of The Year Germany's Stephan Feck came last in the preliminary round of the men's three-meter springboard diving contest at London 2012. Here's why: Liu Xiang's Olympics, Vol. 2 Lui Xiang suffered heartbreak in Beijing when injury forced him out of his home Games. London gave him a chance to make up for the pain ... but he literally failed to clear the first hurdle. Pole Vault Of The Year Great Britain's Kate Dennison narrowly missed out on the pole vault final this summer after missing out on clearing 4.40m, by a distance greater than that. What goes up must come down, but in pole vault it's supposed to be somewhere in front of where you started. You've seen the worst, now enjoy the best: the most outrageous moments of sporting skill in 2012