Paris 2024 Highlights - Day 4

   

July 29, 2024 - DAY 4

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics continues with Shooting, Diving, Equestrian, Shooting, Cycling Mountain Bike, Skateboarding, Archery, Canoe Slalom, Artistic Gymnastics, Swimming, and Fencing as the medal matches of the day.

This day's winners are;

10m Air Rifle Women's - Ban Hyojin (South Korea)

Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Final - China

Eventing Team Jumping - Great Britain

10m Air Rifle Men's - Sheng Lihao (China)

Men's Cross-Country - Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain)

Eventing Individual Jumping - Michael Jung (Germany)

Men's Street Skateboarding - Yuto Horigome (Japan)

Men's Team Archery - South Korea

Men's Canoe Single - Nicolas Gestin (France)

Men's Team Artistic Gymnastics - Japan

Women's 400m Individual Medley - Summer McIntosh (Canada)

Men's 200m Freestyle - David Popovici (Romania)

Men's 100m Backstroke - Thomas Ceccon (Italy)

Women's Sabre Individual - Manon Apithy-Brunet (France)

Women's 200m Freestyle - Mollie O' Callaghan (Australia)

Men's Foil Individual - Cheung Ka Long (Hong Kong)

As things stand, Japan leads the medal tally with six golds out of 12 total medals. France is second with five gold medals out of 16 medals, and China is third with five gold medals out of 12 total medals. 

The games are still in their early stages and anything can happen, but it will be interesting to see if Japan can maintain its lead or if France or China can catch up.

For full schedule and results: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule

Let's Do The News! (July 29, 2024)

                                    

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- The United States and the United Nations are offering assistance in responding to the oil spill in Bataan. The siphoning operations on the sunken oil tanker caused by Typhoon Carina may begin tomorrow but right now, the spillage has reached Cavite.

- The quo warrant case against Alice Guo was signed by the Office of the Solicitor General.

- A fire broke out in the storage room at the fourth level of the Lucky Chinatown property showroom. The fire was quickly extinguished.

- Senator Bato Dela Rosa urged former personnel of the PNP and AFP to volunteer for the security of PH Vice-President Sara Duterte.

- Less than 20 million students are back in school for the SY2024-25 but classes in 842 schools in some parts of the Philippines were suspended.

- Funerals held for children killed in Golan Heights strike as fears rise of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

- Kia teases the K8 minor change coming soon.

- Mitsubishi Motors is reportedly set to join the Honda-Nissan alliance to standardize the software that will be used in their vehicles, with Honda and Nissan expected to jointly develop the basic software and look into incorporating its use in Mitsubishi vehicles.

- The 1st part of the BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! compilation movie hits theaters this September 27th and the 2nd part will be on the 8th of November, 2024.

- Dallas Cowboys' Sam Williams is suffering from a torn ACL in his left knee, according to reports.

- Robert Downey Jr. made a shocking comeback to the Marvel MCU on the final day of this year's San Diego Comic-Con. He will be playing the supervillain Doctor Doom in the recently titled Avengers: Doomsday movie. The news was met with mixed reactions from fans. Some are excited to see Downey Jr. take on a new role in the MCU, while others are disappointed that he won't be returning as Iron Man. However, Marvel Studios is not afraid to take risks.

TTFN.

Paris 2024 Highlights - Day 3

  

July 28, 2024 - DAY 3

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics continues with Shooting, Cycling Mountain Bike, Skateboarding, Archery, Canoe Slalom, Swimming, and Fencing are this day's medal matches.

China's Xie Yu won the 10m Air Pistol Men's Final while South Korea delivered a 1-2 finish at the 10m Air Pistol Women's Final with Oh Ye Jin the winner and Kim Yeji the silver medalist. France's Pauline Ferrand Prevot won the Women's Cross Country, Japan claimed the top two podiums at the Women's Street Final with Coco Yoshizawa the victor and Liz Akama the silver medalist, South Korea with the Women's Team Archery, Australia's Jessica Fox for the Women's Kayak Single, Leon Marchand of France with the Men's 400m Individual Medley, Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh with their 1-2 finish at the Women's 100m Butterfly Final, Eleanor Harvey of Canada and Egypt's Mohamed Elsayed won gold in separate fencing matches, Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy with the Men's 100m Breaststroke final, Lee Kiefer of USA with the Women's Foil Individual, and Koki Kano of Japan with the Men's Epee Individual.

The third day of the 2024 Summer Olympics saw a lot of action and a lot of medals handed out. Japan, Australia, and the USA are neck-and-neck for the lead. Japan is currently on top with four golds out of seven, while Australia has four golds out of six. The USA is trailing slightly with three golds out of 12.

For full schedule and results: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule

F1 2024: Rolex Belgian Grand Prix

As the world's eyes are glued to the Paris Olympics, Formula 1 will crash through the Olympic party by wrapping up the first half of the season before the summer break with the Rolex Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. With so much action in sports, Formula 1 is bringing the heat to try to steal the spotlight. Will the Olympic fever cause an upset or will Formula 1 prove that it's the hottest ticket in town?

Image: Formula 1

The Second Coming of Mercedes in Formula 1 continues with the 1-2 finish of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, respectively. The two Mercedes drivers took the top two spots on the podium, with McLaren's Oscar Piastri coming in third. Other finishers included Charles Leclerc, championship leader Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso, and Esteban Ocon.

Zhou Guanyu was the only driver who didn't finish the race due to hydraulic problems with his car.

Sadly, hours after the race, Russell's victory in Belgium was stripped off due to driving a car that weighed less than the required weight, therefore Lewis Hamilton was named the winner with Piastri second and Leclerc in 3rd. Verstappen, who finished 4th, remains the leader of the season with 277 points.

The F1 '24 season will return to Zandvoort for the Heineken Dutch Grand Prix this August 25, 2024.

FIA World RX 2024: World RX of Hungary

As the world's eyes are glued on the Paris Olympics, the 2024 FIA World RX's Battle of Technologies continues with the Karai Trans World RX of Hungary.

Screengrab from World RX

The first part of the Nyirad action saw Niclas Gronholm survive through the chaos and win while Ole Christian Veiby finished 2nd and Janko Wieszt finished 3rd, a first podium finish for the Impossible RX Team driver. Meanwhile, the final part spelled redemption for Johan Kristoffersson as he defeated Veiby and Klara Andersson to wrap up the Hungary campaign. The ICE side leads over the EV side following Kristofferson's recent win.

The next event is the World RX of Benelux this August 17-18, 2024.

How to dress as the Aikatsu Academy idols

Aikatsu has finally made its way into the world of VTubers! Just like IDOLM@STER and Love Live, Aikatsu Academy! features virtual idols. And now that it's officially out, let's celebrate by learning how to become one of these virtual idols ourselves.

Aikatsu Academy!

As Mieru Himeno - Mieru Himeno is a pretty, talkative, and positive idol singer who has a weakness for cute staff as some claim. Anyway, to become Mieru, you first need long pink hair. That's a beginner's task but the tricky part is to replicate her hairstyle. Her braided side parts feature two big red bows and four white small ones each, totaling four big red ones and eight white small ones. The end parts of her pink hair are twirly so do your best not to mess them up. With that sorted, you are now Mieru Himeno. Feel free to decide on the outfits she wore from her campus escapades.

Mieru Himeno

As Meh Mamimu - Meh Mamimu looks like a mysterious cool beauty but she is calm and friendly when she speaks. If you want to cosplay Meh Mamimu from Aikatsu, it's easy to do. Just get short silver hair with a lot of volume and two black faux hibiscus flowers for the hair accessories. No sweat, right?

Meh Mamimu

As Parin Wao - Parin Wao is an energetic leader and an active girl who loves games and fun. Wao's hairstyle is no doubt the most difficult to replicate. She boasts an extra long sky blue hair with orange insides. Replicating the two ribbons from her hair is extremely difficult as it requires professional help from someone you know, although the pigtail from her left takes four rubber bands to match the look. The thin rear tails feature two orange and one blue small bows each. There are other hair accessories as well such as two ribbons, the orange and the blue, a red oval hairpin, a yellow ribbon hairpin, and a green X hairpin. With the herculean task of replicating her hairstyle sorted, you're now officially Parin Wao.

Parin Wao

...and there you have it. How to dress as the Aikatsu Academy idols. These cosplays are sure enough to be Liked and Subscribed by everyone and you should, too.

If you’re an Aikatsu fan, you should definitely try one of these outfits. You’re sure to be the life of the party!

Paris 2024 Highlights - Day 2

  

July 27, 2024 - DAY 2

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics is in full swing and throughout this event, let's focus only on the medal events because this is where the games matter.

China scored its first gold medal of the event by beating the US and the UK in the Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard diving while Australia's Grace Brown won the Women's Individual Time Trial with Belgium's Remco Evenepoel with the Men's Individual Time Trial Cycling Road. Japan's Natsumi Tsunoda and Kazakhstan's Yeldos Smetov won gold in Judo medal matches, France at the Rugby Sevens Men's Gold Medal Match, Germany's Lukas Maertens with the Men's 400m Freestyle, Australia's Ariane Titmus at the Women's 400m Freestyle, Vivian Kong from Hong Kong with the Women's Epee Individual, Australia dominated the Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay, USA with the Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay, and South Korea's Oh Sanguk with the Men's Sabre Individual Fencing.

Australia leads with three gold medals out of five, China has two out of three, and the US has one out of five. 

These are just the medal events, of course, but I think it’s a good start for all three countries. I’m interested to see how they all do as the games go on. Who do you think is going to come out on top?

For full schedule and results: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule