Well, onto the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan with a news report as New Zealand win their 1st gold medal at Tokyo with Whanganui's own Kerri Gowler & her pairs partner Grace Prendergast in the rowing women's pair followed by Emma Twigg (Who missed out not once but twice in both London & Rio de Janeiro & I mean, how appropriate that she finally became the Olympic champion) in the women's single sculls rowing event then the men's eight led by Hamish Bond (Who won his 3rd gold medal after dominating in both London & Rio with his former pairs partner Eric Murray) & finally the Black Ferns sevens with Sarah Hirini at the helm did have the chance of redemption to right the wrongs as a proud rugby nation by finally winning gold 5 years after missing out in Rio against Australia in the gold medal match in the women's rugby sevens event after comprehensively beaten France in the gold medal match while the silver medalists are Brooke Donoghue & Hannah Osborne in the women's double single sculls as well as the All Blacks sevens in the men's rugby sevens after missing out on the gold by the hands of the Fijians & of course, the women's eight featuring Kerri Gowler, Prendergast & 7 others (It was the Canadians who edged the Kiwis to win gold) & bronze went to Hayden Wilde in the men's triathlon followed by Marcus Daniell & Michael Venus in the men's doubles tennis then Dylan Schmidt in the men's gymnastics trampoline & Dame Valerie Adams in the athletics women's shot put which took place recently.
And rugby news just come in as the defending world champions the Springboks put on a clinical display by winning the 2nd test against the British & Irish Lions side who ran out of steam after South Africa scored 21 unanswered points (Who were 6 - 9 down in the 1st half) including Rugby World Cup winning Springbok player Makazole Mapimpi who was the man of the moment to force a decider going into the 3rd & final test of the test series.
So that is my 443rd blog of the year 2021 (MMXXI) & my 43rd of this year.
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