Rio 2016 Highlights - Day 9

August 13, 2016 - DAY 9

Saturday's events of the ongoing 2016 Rio Olympics include Athletics, Boxing, Cycling Track, Fencing, Rowing, Shooting, Swimming, Tennis, Trampoline Gymnastics, and Weightlifting.

So, let's find out who are the medal winners per sport

Men's Discus Throw Final
Gold - Christoph Harting (Germany)
Silver - Piotr Malachowski (Poland)
Bronze - Daniel Jasinski (Germany)

Men's Heavy 91kg Semifinal 1
Bronze - Rustam Tulaganov (Uzbekistan)

Men's Heavy 91kg Semifinal 2
Bronze - Erislandy Savon (Cuba)

Women's Team Sprint Finals
Gold - China
Silver - Russia
Bronze - Germany

Women's Sabre Team Match
Gold - Russia
Silver - Ukraine
Bronze - United States

Men's Single Sculls Final A
Gold - Mahe Drysdale (New Zealand)
Silver - Martin Damir (Croatia)
Bronze - Ondrej Synek (Czech Republic)

Women's Single Sculls Final A
Gold - Kimberley Brennan (Australia)
Silver - Genevra Stone (USA)
Bronze - Duan Jingli (China)

Women's Eight Final A
Gold - USA
Silver - United Kingdom
Bronze - Romania

Men's Eight Final A
Gold- United Kingdom
Silver - Germany
Bronze - Holland

25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men's Finals
Gold - Christian Reitz (Germany)
Silver - Jean Quiquampoix (France)
Bronze - Li Yuehong (China)

Skeet Men's Match
Gold - Gabriele Rossetti (Italy)
Silver - Marcus Svensson (Sweden)
Bronze - Abdullah Alrashidi (Olympic Refugee Team)

Women's 50m Freestyle Final
Gold - Pernille Blume (Denmark)
Silver - Simone Manuel (USA)
Bronze - Aliaksandra Herasimenia (Belarus)

Men's 1500m Freestyle Final
Gold - Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy)
Silver - Connor Jaeger (USA)
Bronze - Gabriele Detti (Italy)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Final
Gold - USA
Silver - Australia
Bronze - Denmark

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final
Gold - USA
Silver - United Kingdom
Bronze - Australia

Women's Doubles Bronze Medal Match
Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)

Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match
Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic)

Men's Final (Trampoline Gymnastics)
Gold - Uladzislau Hancharou (Belarus)
Silver - Dong Dong (China)
Bronze - Gao Lei (China)

Men's 94kg Group A (weightlifting)
Gold - Sohrab Moradi (Iran)
Silver - Vadzim Straltsou (Belarus)
Bronze - Aurimas Didzbalis (Lithuania)

On the top five countries with the most Gold medals earned during the course of the Rio Olympics, USA still dominates with 24 gold medals, China bagged 13, 10 for United Kingdom, 8 for Germany, and 7 for Japan.

For full schedule and results: https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results

Aikatsu Stars (movie)

First aired on TV Tokyo in the spring of 2016, Aikatsu Stars is the successor story of the hit Aikatsu franchise and it centers on a brand new story of friends Yume Nijino and Rola Sakuraba as they are going to fulfill their quest to become the school's finest idols in the same way the four elite students, called the S4, did with their pride and prestige. Using their Aikatsu Cards, the stage is theirs to amaze the spectators. While the little girls have been enjoying the whole Aikatsu Stars show for 18 weeks and it continues to progress, there is now a movie version of the hit TV series that will serve as the turning point to the tale of Aikatsu Stars.

Aikatsu Stars (movie)

Of course, fans like you and I got the whole Aikatsu Step song that Yume performed in the TV show stuck in our heads and on this movie, no one can escape the rhythmic whim of the Aikatsu Step song if you progress through the brand new storyline that sets as a turnaround from the hit TV series. In the movie; Yume Nijino, Rola Sakuraba, Koharu Nanakura, Ako Saotome, and Mahiru Kasumi are on the wonderful Aikatsu Island not just for the fun and show of it but this is where their friendship are put to the test and how far will they go for the legendary dress audition the academy, even the S4, is talking about lies beneath theirs. 

Anyway, no time to chitchat about that now because even though this show is still fresh off the Aikatsu franchise since the recently-concluded original Aikatsu, this show picked up lots of fans in spite of a small share in the world of anime idol girls, even little girls aged 8 and below got into the fun with the Aikatsu Stars gig. You can trust them on this because while this is plainly a girly kiddy show and made for family viewing, even the most astute of idol anime addicts can get fallen to the trap of kawaiii-ness this movie get just like in the hit TV show because, well, this is idol anime stuff and we know it about five hundred idol girls ago.

For those who missed the Akari generation of Aikatsu, don't fret because before this movie starts, there's a movie short featuring the girls from the original Aikatsu anime, which was recently concluded since late March. In the short, Aoi Kiriya, Akari Ozora, Ran Shibuki, Ichigo Hoshimiya, and the gang are on a new adventure about the magical Aikatsu card. No time to explain that but it's great to have the original Aikatsu gals returning on a short clip before their successors became the main event every little girls with their mommies and daddies waiting for. This is going to be the ideal Aikatsu experience they don't wanna miss.

Now, let's all sing the Aikatsu Step song that is now stuck on everyone's heads now while watching this film! Idol girls...

My rating: 3.1 out of 5.

Rio 2016 Highlights - Day 8

August 12, 2016 - DAY 8

At this day at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics, the main events are Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Cycling Track, Equestrian, Fencing, Judo, Rowing, Shooting, Swimming, Tennis, Trampoline Gymnastics, and Weightlifting.

At the Men's Individual Archery, the winner of the Gold medal goes to Ku Bonchan from South Korea while the silver medal goes to Jean-Charles Valladont and bronze goes to Brady Ellison from the USA.

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana and Tirunesh Dibaba made a 1 and 3 finish at the Women's 10,000m dash while Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot from Kenya placed 2nd. In the Men's 20km Race Walk, meanwhile, China made a 1-2 finish thanks to Wang Zhen and Cai Zelin while Dane Bird-Smith placed 3rd.

Two boxers took home the bronze medal this day; Joahnys Argilagos from Cuba and Nico Miguel Hernandez from the USA for the Men's Light Fly Semifinals.

China wins the Women's Team Sprint Finals followed by Russia, placed 2nd, and Germany, placed 3rd. In the Men's Team Pursuit Finals, meanwhile, Great Britain wins the gold while silver goes to Australia and bronze goes to Denmark.

Team Germany won the Dressage Team Grand Prix Special followed by Great Britain, silver medals for the team, and the USA, bronze medals for them.

At the Men's Foil Team Fencing, the United States and France were concede to the controversial Russian fencing team. As I said controversial, that's because they are one of the Russian players cleared to enter the Olympics amid the doping scandal that battered them.

Emile Andeol from France wins the gold medal at the Women's 78kg judo match while the silver medal goes to Cuban Idalys Ortiz and bronze goes to Yu Song from China. Meanwhile, at the Men's 100kg, Teddy Riner from France wins gold while Hisayoshi Harasawa from Japan gets silver, and bronze medals go to Israeli Or Sasson and Brazilian Rafael Silva.

Female Dutch scullers, Ilse Paulis and Maaike Head and male French scullers, Pierre Houin and Jeremie Azou, are the winners of the LWT Double Sculls.

Henri Junghaenel from Germany wins the 50m Rifle Prone Men's Shooting followed by South Korea's Kim Jonghyun, silver, and Russia's Kirill Grigoryan, bronze. At the Skeet Women's shooting, Italians Diana Bacosi and Chiara Cainero won gold and silver while Kimberly Rhode from USA won bronze.

Swimmers who won gold medals are Madeline Dirado for the women's 200m backstroke, Joseph Schooling from Singapore for the Men's 100m butterfly, Katie Ledecky for the Women's 800m Freestyle, and Anthony Ervin from the USA for the Men's 50m Freestyle.

Spain's Marc Lopez and tennis superstar Rafael Nadal won the men's doubles tennis against Romania's Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau while USA's Steven Johnson and Jack Son won the Men's Doubles Bronze Medal Match.

At the Women's Trampoline Gymnastics final, Canada's Rosannagh Maclennan won the gold medal while silver goes to UK's Bryony Page and bronze goes to China's Li Dan.

North Korea's Rim Jong Sim obliterated Darya Naumava from Belarus and Lidia Valentin Perez at the Women's 75kg Group A weightlifting while Iran's Kianoush Rostami crushed Tian Tao from China and Gabriel Sincraian from Romanian at the Men's 85kg Group A. Those gold medal athletes belonged to two nuclear states starting to get fired up following their win, though. Hold on, I did mention about a North Korean winning their first gold medal at the weightlifting competition in Rio. Can I consider it as a "threat from North Korea"? Although unsure about it, I'll just let it go for now since this is the Olympics and this is no time for telling what's North Korea up to.

Anyway, onto the medal tally, USA still leading with 20 gold medals, China bagged 13 golds, both the United Kingdom and Japan got seven gold medals, and South Korea got six golds.

For full schedule and results: https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results

Francis Aglabtin is Lola's Playlist Ultimate Winner

Source: Official EB
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Over the months, we've seen kids from across the nation serenading us, even Lola Nidora, with hit songs from the 50's, 60's, and 70's, in a segment titled Lola's Playlist on Eat Bulaga. On this day, this is the grand finals of the competition that gave us the LSS or Lumang Song Syndrome, enriching our newfound love for hit classic songs from the last century.

The grand finals pit three young boys; Francis Aglabtin, Benedict Aboyme, and Joshua Torino, for one last time in the ultimate battle to be crowned as the ultimate winner in the grand finals.

In the end, although unsure about what plot twist Lola Nidora said yesterday, there can be only one and the winner is...Francis Aglabtin!

Congratulations to Francis Aglabtin for being the ultimate winner in the grand finals of Eat Bulaga's Lola's Playlist!

#BubbleGang - August 12, 2016

On the August 12, 2016 episode of Bubble Gang...

- Dungeon gags

- A new marketing plan involving perfumes...

- A not-so-unanimous decision between the two hosts!

- Time to get wet, buddies!

- Another Buhay ng Bakla song coming at ya.

- Bystander, Bystander in the Inside, English Language Today Will Be Applied, Our Song Will Be Understand Worldwide, It's Because Our Friends Are...STATESIDE?!

- Drug addicts reluctant to give in to authorities!

- Road rage gone wild!

- Basa-basa-pik!

Let's Do The News! (August 12, 2016)

- Onto the upcoming Marcos burial, President Rodrigo Duterte insists that the law does not prohibit the burial of late President Ferdinand E Marcos at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani whether he was a hero or not. He said that while the cemetery's name bares a qualifier "bayani", it is merely a "generic title" and not all who are buried there are heroes.

- Meanwhile, former president Fidel V. Ramos, acting as a special envoy to China, met with his old friends in Hong Kong to discuss the relationship between the two countries. Ramos met with former Ambassador to Manila Fu Ying and China's National Institute for South China Sea Studies President Wu Shicun to discuss ways to resolve the dispute between the two countries.

- A submarine belonged to the Royal Australian Navy has arrived at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Olongapo Friday morning. The Philippine Navy said the Australian submarine arrived 0900 hours local time for a port visit and will be there until the 27th of August. PN delegates rendered the customary welcome ceremony on the ship and crew, headed by Commander Jason Cupples.

- Libyan forces say they have captured the Islamic State's headquarters int he coastal city of Sirte. The US-backed forces said on Wednesday that they captured a convention center that served as the Islamic State militants' base in the city center. The militants had once controlled hospital and university buildings in Sirte as well.

- Tensions between the Russians and the Ukrainians are worsen following Moscow's detention of people it calls Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea. Russia's security service FSB said on Wednesday that it captured saboteurs who had been preparing to target Crimean infrastructures. It added that a Russian soldier and an FSB worker were killed during the operation.

- New Pokemon Sun and Mon info on the radar. The latest information involves a group of bandits known as Team Skull, new Pokemon as well as new Alolan forms to familiar Pokemon such as Raichu, Marowak, and Meowth. That's right!

- The Code Geass franchise will celebrate their 10th anniversary this year with a special event happening at the Maihama Amphitheater on the 27th of November.

- The 2nd DL Live for the PS4-exclusive THE IDOLM@STER Platinum Stars, called "Sweet x2 Live!" will be available on the PlayStation Store on the 17th of August. Prizes for clearing this DL live include high-ranking accessories including the brand new "Sweet Pop Flower" costume, set to the highest rank!

- Patrick Stewart announced that he will be reprising his role of Professor X in an upcoming Wolverine sequel, due 2017, but presumably, this will be the last time reprising his role in the world of X-MEN.

TTFN!!!

Rio 2016 Highlights - Day 7

August 11, 2016 - DAY 7

Archery, Artistic Gymnastics, Canoe Slalom, Cycling Track, Fencing, Judo, Rowing, Rugby Sevens, Shooting, Swimming, and Table Tennis are the highlights of this day at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics.

Focusing on the gold medal winners, here are the list of the gold medalists at this day;

• Chang Hye Jin from South Korea for the Women's Individual Archery
• Simone Biles from USA for the Women's Individual All-Around Gymnastics
• Ladislav and Peter Skantar from Slovakia for the Canoe Double C2 Men Final
• Maialen Chourraut from Spain for the Kayak K1 Women Final
• Team GBR for the Men's Team Sprint Finals
• Team Romania for the Women's Epee Team Fencing
• Kayla Harrison from USA for the Women's 78kg Judo
• Lukas Krpalek from Czech Republic for the Men's 100kg Judo
• Team Germany for the Women's Quad Sculls
• Eric Murray and Hamish Bond from New Zealand for the Men's Pair Rowing
• Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj from Poland for the Women's Double Sculls
• Martin and Valent Sinkovic from Croatia for the Men's Double Sculls
• Team Switzerland for the LWT Men's Four
• Team Fiji for the Men's Rugby Sevens
• Ma Long from China for the Men's Singles Table Tennis
• Ryan Murphy from USA for the Men's 200m backstroke
• Barbara Engleder from Germany for the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women's Shooting

On the medal tally as of now, USA bagged 16 golds, China got 11 golds, Japan got 7 golds, Australia and South Korea got 5 golds.

Full schedule and results: https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results