Party Hard/Fever for the Flava/Step Into My World/Fishing For Lisa: My 44th blog of the year 2024

Well, g'day guys & girls, it's Whetu here on my Kiwiavenger blog but first, news straight out of St Andrew's Golf Course as Olympic Gold medalist of our own Kiwi Lydia Ko (Who already has been inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame following her success at the Olympic Games in Paris) has struck again as she wins the AIG Women's Open (Her 3rd major golf championship as well as her 1st since 2016 in a headline dubbed as: KO-NGRATULATIONS) by a single shot, continuing her form as she carries over from Paris where she left off (And I decided to at least follow golf since the success of Ko that we're having (And I used to follow it when American golfer Tiger Woods was around during the late 1990's/2000's period but I stopped following golf when Tiger's form had been declining).

And the latest in the America's Cup Preliminaries in Barcelona, Spain where Emirates Team New Zealand go 4 - 0 at the end of day 3 (Beating the likes of Alinghi Red Bull Racing, American Magic, INEOS Britannia & Orient Express Team France) but on the 4th & final day that the defender had beaten the Italian syndicate Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli (There was a protest made by Team New Zealand which resulted in a penalty against the Italians for not keeping clear) in a dramatic race to send a statement to our 5 challengers "We're coming", even though after our failure of winning our maiden Sail GP championship for the Foil Blacks because it went to Spain who ended the utter dominance of Australia who would win SailGP championships from 2019 until last year when they last won in 2022-23 (That was before Spanish just becoming the first nation other than Australia to win the Sail GP championship) just like Man City who were always overwhelmingly dominant since 2020-21, but they kick start their title defence with a win over Chelsea in their opening Premier League fixture.

And in motor racing related stuff in the F1 such as Max Verstappen's points lead had been reduced following his championship rival of Lando Norris (The Jude Bellingham & Marcus Smith of motor racing compared to Sir Lewis Hamilton who is motor racing's equivalent of Harry Kane & Owen Farrell, as well as George Russell sharing the same role as Bukayo Saka & Fin Smith) who won convincingly in Max's home race at the Dutch Grand Prix therefore surging back into championship contention in which Norris & McLaren are willing to end the utter dominance of Verstappen (Who is winless since his last victory came in Spain this year, but his lead in the championship had been slashed after Norris won in Holland) & Red Bull on top of the F1 world once & for all (But it's been 4 years since the last time a British driver had been crowned the world champion, & it was Sir LH (Who was the 10th & most recent one because the 1st was the late Mike Hawthorn (Then it was the late great Graham Hill, also the late great John Surtees, the late great Jim Clark, Sir Jackie Stewart, the late James Hunt, Nigel 'Nige the Lion' Mansell, the late Graham's son Damon Hill, Hamilton & Jenson 'JB' Button) while I fear that Norris could be the 11th if he becomes the world champion, but it looks like that McLaren are adapting to the new rule amendments well by taking over as the quickest constructor in F1 with Red Bull (The constructors championship leader at the time) are in fact a bit slow & are currently struggling in terms of speed) in 2020 which was marred by the global COVID pandemic that the world once had, especially us), but the latest in Indycar as disaster for 'The Iceman' of Scott Dixon (Who I'd say that he should retire given in fact that he's is getting too old to continue racing) as a wreck in the opening lap in the Grand Prix of Portland, has ended his championship quest (Santino Ferrucci was the one who secured a maiden pole, but the race went to an Aussie who drives for Team Penske of Will Power (Who hasn't won a championship since 2022, a year before (Last year) & after (2021) his main championship rival of Spain's Alex Palou who currently races for Chip Ganassi Racing had won the title), therefore keeping his bid for a 3rd Indycar championship alive as well as being able to wind back the clock at the tender age of 43 just like Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (And Power may be Indycar's equivalent of Ronaldo in terms of their current ages), but that there has been an update in Italy as Monaco's Charles Leclerc triumphs at Ferrari's home race in Italy much to the delight of the tifosi which was overshadowed by the debut of Franco Colapinto who drives for Williams by taking over the accident/crash prone American Logan Sargeant's seat as he becomes the first Argentinian to compete in Formula One for 23 years since Gaston Mazzacane in 2001 (And Indycar has an Argentinian already with touring car legend Agustin Canapino driving for Juncos Hollinger Racing) in which he drove for Prost (Established in 1997 by team owner & former world champion Alain Prost as a replacement for the Ligier team until it folded following the 2001 season) at the time with Aussie Oscar Piastri the best of the McLaren's in 2nd then championship contender as well as Max Verstappen's main challenger in terms of the championship (First it was Leclerc in 2022 followed by Max's Oracle Red Bull Racing teammate Sergio Perez last year) of Norris (Who is Piastri's teammate) rounds out the podium in 3rd (And there is a young Italian lining up on next year's F1 grid with Andrea Kimi Antonelli set to replace the Ferrari bound Sir Lewis Hamilton to race for Mercedes-AMG to team up with former F2 champion who used to race for Williams of Britain's George Russell (And there is another rookie competing in F1 next year with Alpine securing the services of young Aussie Jack Doohan (Son of motorcycle racing legend who was a 5 time 500cc motorcycle grand prix champion from 1994 to 1998 of Mick) as he replaces the departing Frenchman Esteban Ocon who'll be joining the young Brit of Ollie Bearman (One of 3 rookies in next year's F1 grid alongside both Antonelli & Doohan) at Haas (With their drivers Nico Hulkenberg (Who will be heading to Sauber next year) & Kevin Magnussen set to leave at the end of this year), meanwhile in Australia in the Supercars Championship as defending series champion Brodie Kostecki (Who'll replace the departing Anton de Pasquale to Team18) set to leave Erebus Motorsport as he is prepared to move to the rejuvenated DJR for next year as he teams up with former Bathurst 1000 winning driver Will Davison, but the latest on the Indycar as both Kiwis of the pair of Scott's had been impressed at the Milwaukee Mile with McLaughlin able to take the win ahead of Dixon therefore celebrating a New Zealand 1-2 (And it's a reversal of Texas Motor Speedway in 2021 where Dixon won ahead of McLaughlin, just like in the final race of last year at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca), in one of the 2 double-header races in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before the season concludes at Nashville Speedway which will be an emotional homecoming for local driver Josef Newgarden (A former 2 time Indycar Series champion) who hails from there because of Tennessee being his home state, while the championship will be decided in a 2 man horse race between Spain's Alex Palou (Who is the 2 time defending series champion) & Australia's Will Power (A former 2 time champion just like one of his Team Penske teammates Newgarden) of who'll become champion of the Indycar Series (Both Palou & Power are on 2 American Open Wheel championships each, but who'll claim the 3rd? Because I remember a comment from New Zealand motor racing legend Greg Murphy on the motor racing show Sky Speed who gave his prediction that both Alex & Will are expected to falter, even though with McLaughlin maybe having an outside chance of becoming champion for the very first time come the 15th of September (16th New Zealand time).

And the All Blacks side (Who are missing players that are part of the injury list (IL) such as Ethan de Groot, Luke Jacobson, Stephen Perofeta & Patrick Tuipulotu, but Scott Barrett is healthy again as he recovers from injury to captain the side & play his first test since injuring his finger against Fiji in San Diego, California in the United States, then he missed the last 2 tests against Argentina through injury, meanwhile he is back & raring to go that boosted New Zealand's chances of winning that test against the best in the world of the mighty Boks side in Johannesburg) has been named for round 3 of the Rugby Championship test against the world champion Springboks side on August 31st at Ellis Park (Where South Africa have never beaten New Zealand at that famous rugby ground since a decade ago back in 2014 (That was the year before (2015) & after (2013) the AB's claim victory at that venue against the South Africans) in the city of gold of Joburg in one of the best rivalries of not just of international rugby but of sport as well as the rematch of our ill-fated 2023 Rugby World Cup final, but the most recent test between the 2 countries was on the 29th of October which was last year during the final of the RWC where South Africa made history as they became the second team to retain the heavyweight crown of world rugby which is the William Webb Ellis Cup (Including at that moment when the iconic sporting figure of Siya 'The Bear' Kolisi (Who'll be heading back home to South Africa with the Sharks after spending just one season with Racing 92 in France) became the first Springbok captain to achieve the feat such as lifting the Webb Ellis trophy twice just like Richie McCaw did for the All Blacks in 2015) & the first to win 4 Rugby World Cup championships as they beat 14 man New Zealand (Who fell short just like in 1995 against the South Africans, including a red card to the New Zealand captain at the time of Sam Cane that cost us the story which was colloquially billed as the scars of '23 according to the previous blogs that I did, in a similar ending to Roman Reigns beating Cody Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at Wrestlemania 39 last year which was the most shocking result at the Grandest Stage of Them All since the Undertaker's defeat in the hands of Brock Lesnar (Who had to end the streak of 'the Deadman' stretching back to his debut in 1991, but missed both Wrestlemania's in 1994 & 2000) at WM 30 back in 2014 (And then this year at Wrestlemania XL in which Seth Rollins was robbed of losing the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (Currently held by an Austrian wrestler, named Gunther, compared to LA Knight (The one who defeated social media superstar sensation Logan Paul to become the United States champion) & Jey Uso (The one who defeated Bronson Reed of becoming the new Intercontinental champion on Raw) being the current title holders of both the WWE United States & Intercontinental championships respectively) against Drew McIntyre, until the injured CM Punk intervened by attacking him in the process which allowed Damian Priest to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase & take the title from McIntyre, many to the delight of his Judgment Day stablemates including the Irish pair of Finn Balor & JD McDonagh, 'Dirty' Dominik Mysterio & the Women's World Champion (Currently held by Liv Morgan as of today) at the time of Aussie Rhea Ripley (Who vacated the title due to a sneak attack from Morgan which injured Ripley's shoulder before Becky Lynch (Who lost to Ripley for the women's world title at WM XL) became the champion in a 6 person Battle Royale on Raw until Morgan defeated Lynch to become the new WWE Women's World Champion, just like Nia Jax (Who failed to beat Rhea Ripley for the WWE Women's World Championship crown at Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia this year in February) did against Bayley (The one who defeated her former Damage Ctrl tag team stablemate Iyo Sky at Wrestlemania XL in which she became champion of the WWE Women's title) to become the new WWE Women's Champion), with the assist of the Big Dog's Bloodline stablemate Solo Sikoa who provided the sneak assault on Rhodes who was desperately trying to win & end the lengthy but prolonged championship reign of the man known as 'The Head of the Table', therefore the story of the American Nightmare is incomplete/unfinished, but Sunday, April 2nd last year, should've been a great day for Cody in his pursuit of becoming the new Undisputed WWE Universal Champion (Although he had to wait for his road to redemption until this year at WM XL in order to beat Roman as well as the title, & he successfully did with the help of his friends including Jey Uso (Who took out his twin brother Jimmy), John Cena (Who took out Solo Sikoa before being beaten by the punch in the hands of the Rock) & the Undertaker (Who would able to take the Rock out of his misery before Rhodes were able to finish off in style against 'The Tribal Chief' of becoming the new champ during the 'Bloodline Rules' match for the title, much to the delight of his loyal WWE supporters as well as finally finishing his story, in hard fought fashion during that amazing sight in which was a true ending culminating the happiest of all endings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Grandest Stage of Them All which was by far, the most incredible ending to the Showcase of the Immortals since the Heist of the Century at Wrestlemania 31 in which Seth Rollins beat the likes of Lesnar & Reigns of becoming the new champ after successfully iniaiting his Money in the Bank contract, despite losing to Randy Orton (Who connected the greatest RKO of his WWE career of all time, on Rollins in which he took the victory before Rollins bounced back to pull off a winning performance against Brock & Roman during the main event) earlier in the day) by a single point at the Stade de France (Venue for much of the Paris Olympics this year) in Paris, so here is the starting lineup according to Razor (Who had a fallout with Leon MacDonald therefore he quit as an assistant coach meaning that the AB's assistant coaching team are down to 4 following Macdonald's departure such as Scott Hansen, Jason 'Alfie' Holland, Scott 'Stormy' McLeod & Jason 'Jase' Ryan):

STARTING XV

FORWARD PACK

FRONT ROW

1 (Loose head prop): Tamaiti Williams (Crusaders/Canterbury)

2 (Hooker): Codie Taylor (Crusaders/Canterbury)

3 (Tight head prop): Tyrel Lomax (Hurricanes/Tasman)

SECOND ROW

4 (No.4 lock): Scott Barrett (Captain, Crusaders/Taranaki)

5 (No.5 lock): Tupou Vaa'i (Chiefs/Taranaki)

LOOSE FORWARDS

6 (Blind side flanker): Ethan Blackadder (Crusaders/Tasman)

7 (Open side flanker): Sam Cane (Chiefs/Bay of Plenty)

8 (Number 8): Ardie Savea (Moana Pasifika/Wellington)

BACK LINE

HALVES

9 (Half-back): TJ Perenara (Hurricanes/Wellington)

10 (First five-eighth): Damian McKenzie (Chiefs/Waikato)

MIDFIELD

12 (Second five-eighth): Jordie Barrett (Hurricanes/Taranaki)

13 (Centre): Rieko Ioane (Blues/Auckland)

OUTSIDE BACKS

11 (Left wing): Caleb Clarke (Blues/Auckland)

14 (Right wing): Will Jordan (Crusaders/Tasman)

& 15 (Fullback): Beauden Barrett (Blues/Taranaki)

& REPLACEMENT PLAYERS

16 (Reserve hooker): Asafo Aumua

17 (Reserve loose head prop): Ofa Tu'ungafasi

18 (Reserve tight head prop): Fletcher Newell

19 (Reserve lock): Sam Darry (Who is dropped to the bench as he takes Josh Lord's place as the reserve lock forward position)

20 (Reserve loose forward): Samipeni Finau (Who returns to the side as he takes Sam Cane's place to cover at the loose forward position)

21 (Reserve half-back): Cortez Ratima

22 (Reserve midfielder): Anton Lienert-Brown

& 23 (Reserve outside back): Mark Tele'a

And finally continuing onto the rugby stuff that there has been an update as the world champion Springboks side brought themselves home in the end to topple the All Blacks (Who had reserve loosehead prop Ofa Tu'ungafasi yellow carded for cynically collapsing the maul that cost us the test (Similar to in July that a senseless 20 year old gunman opened fire that former US president Donald Trump nearly got assassinated during a campaign rally, killing a Trump supporter instantly who saved by stopping Trump from getting shot even though that he was a human shield before the US Secret Service snipers intervened by shooting that idiot dead, then security that protects Trump & his family had been doubled in the aftermath of that serious incident, especially both Trump Tower nationwide & Mar-el-Lago as well as sensitive areas that are associated to Trump that are asking for protection/safeguarding according to the previous blogs that I did, but dreadful news in Gaza such as more than 40,000 casualties have gone up which has been reported in that senseless war made by the Israelis, while in Israel (And I mean why do they want to keep invading Gaza by killing innocent people in a genocide? I mean, wake up Israel! Honestly) that there has been protests everywhere, especially the cops are standing off against the protesters who are demanding the release of their hostages still being kept by Hamas, even if there is a ceasefire, but it's not gonna happen while this could take forever to free the hostages (And CNN reporters were in Israel covering that news, but not Al Jazeera reporters due to an Israeli law prohibiting them of providing coverage about the deadly but malicious genocide invasion in that country (And it's been nearly a year since war began, but this needs to stop, enough's enough! But we want peace, not war, while I'm a pro-Palestine supporter just like Pops due to Carole having Middle Eastern roots, & then all of a sudden that I'm an anti-Israeli type of person, because of the Israeli troops who keep blantantly attacking by threatening & massacring those innocent Palestinian people in Gaza), especially we had blown a 10 point lead which proved to be the turning point, resulting in a famous win for South Africa who hadn't played New Zealand (Who struggled in our kicking game) in international rugby for 308 days since their last meeting which was last years Rugby World Cup final) 31 points to 27 at Ellis Park in Johannesburg to assert their dominance on top of the standings, therefore continuing their bid of winning their 1st Rugby Championship crown since 5 years ago back in 2019 (Which was World Cup year), especially both the bomb squad (In which the All Blacks didn't nullify that compared to the RWC final last year) & the boot of Sascha Feinberg-Mngomezulu that made the South Africans (Who had their first win against New Zealand at Ellis Park since 10 years ago back in 2014) the difference which sparked a comeback including that winning try scored by reserve Springbok halfback Grant Williams which resulted in both heartbreak & heartache for the AB's, especially our fanbase over here, but we'll do it all over again as we next meet each other at DHL Stadium (In which the AB's have never played at that venue but they'll be a few ex-pat New Zealand supporters turning up at that ground) in Cape Town (In which New Zealand hasn't played at the city since 2017 when it was at the old Newlands ground (Which has been demolished already) against the South Africans which resulted in a 1 point victory to us) on the 7th of September in our quest of reedeming ourselves by reversing that result from Ellis Park (And there was a bit of controversy according to the comment that I remember from Carole about the pro-South African crowd not respecting the traditional All Black haka war dance by putting them off as they drowned them out & also the famous fly-over which evoked memories of the 1995 Rugby World Cup final that occurred during the haka, but there has been another controversy as the opening try scored by the 2 time Rugby World Cup winning player for the Springboks of hooker Bongi Mbonambi, had not been counted as a result of a knock on in which the pro-Springbok crowd were outraged about the decision that it should've been a no try (And we could've won that test anyway), seconds before Feinberg-Mngomezulu's time on his goal kicking attempt is up because he had taken too long in which the South African fans were aghast & in disbelief about the shot clock which had been expired).

So that is my 568th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 44th of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.

P.S. And our country of New Zealand is in mourning as the Maori king of King Tuheitia (For who I once met him by giving him a handshake back in 2009 during Jansen's other grandfather Jack Condon's funeral way back in 2009) who recently passed away so our hearts, thoughts, prayers & condolences go to te whanau of Kingi Tuheitia, rest in power.

Locked Out/You Don't Get Me High Anymore/Every Day's a Saturday/Heavenly Pop Hit: My 43rd blog of the year 2024

Well, hey guys & girls, it's Whet here on my Kiwiavenger blog (And it is my first post Olympic Games blog since it ended at the closing ceremony that had taken place in Paris) but first, the All Blacks have done it, they have beaten Argentina (Who haven't played at Eden Park in Auckland since the 2011 Rugby World Cup quarterfinal which was won by the All Blacks 9 years before the Argentinians had their first win, out of 3 against us in Sydney in 2020) at the Garden of Eden at Eden Park in Auckland to maintain our unbeaten run at both the ground & at the city since 1995 therefore bouncing back from defeat in Wellington, & I mean what a turnaround it was (And what a difference that it made from defeat in Welly to a win in the City of Sails of Tamaki Makaurau while the try scorers for New Zealand were Damian McKenzie (Whose goal kicking is immaculate during the test), stand-in captain Ardie Savea, Caleb Clarke, Will Jordan not once but twice, & Beauden Barrett (And I mean what a way to exact payback after Wellington to win a test, therefore turning the tables on them as we defied the miserable conditions, but there was a yellow card against reserve hooker Asafo Aumua for an illegal head contact on Mateo Carreras (Just like Ethan Blackadder did on Joel Sclavi during our dreaded test at the Windy City), therefore the war on high tackles in rugby is still going as it rages on since World Rugby are coming down hard on dangerous, head high tackles when it was introduced in 2017 (Just like the guidelines on social media that prohibits abuse, hate & discrimination online, whether it's foul/colorful language, as well as both racism & homophobia (Or especially islamophobia towards Muslims & anti-semitism also towards the Jewish people) which does count as foul play just like deliberate knockdowns), meanwhile the Springboks go 2 & 0 in the Rugby Championship following another win against the Wallabies in Perth but bring on South Africa as the All Blacks next game is against the world champion Boks side at Ellis Park in Johannesburg which is a rematch of our ill-fated Rugby World Cup final from last year, in one of the best rivalries in not just of international rugby, but of sport as well.

And it's official that Paige Williams is now Paige Ahearn since she got married with her husband Jarrod while I tried to email her (And also I wrote a letter about her but I don't know her address & I'll give it to her next time when I go to the Windy City which is in January next year on a holiday with Pops, but I'll try & remember Paige's married name from now on) but she didn't respond because I did know that she's kinda tied up of looking after her daughter Norah back home in Wellington meaning that she's been incredibly busy lately according to Dad at The Cobb on the 19th of August, always damn busy taking care of her child, but it was a day earlier on August 18th that I heard that both Dad & Pops were having a red mist such as a heated argument between each other (Similar to an American Chopper episode that Paul Teutul Jr got fired from it from his father Paul Teutul Sr who was acting as boss for Orange County Choppers) for which I reacted & I didn't like while I was in my bedroom, saying that the foods from both the fridge & freezer whether that they should stay or should go, but they resolved their problems lately with both of them apologising to me in due course but I was urging Pops (Who probably learnt his lesson afterwards but he might have got some father problems towards Dad) not to buy any more meat for a fortnight (And I day later that I was laughing uncontrollably about it not only I was acting immature like a 5 year old, but this ain't no laughing matter needless to say).

And back to the rugby stuff that it has been revealed that the anthem singer named Marla Kavanaugh who sang the New Zealand national anthem during the AB's - Fiji game in San Diego where they had a warm reception & where she currently resides in the United States, is too scared to go back home to her country of birth of New Zealand due to her getting death threats as well as hateful abuse being sent from the New Zealand rugby fans who were hostile towards her, just like the GTA III game where the Italian Mafia gang at the St Mark's district (The most dangerous area in the game in the aftermath of Don Salvatore Leone who was shot dead by the game's protagonist Claude, but GTA IV has Little Italy in which has its equivalent of the St Mark's area) in Liberty City is routinely armed with shotguns due to Claude (Who the Mafia classified him as extremely hostile by shooting him dead when on foot or a car blows up instantly killing him if he's in a car with a shotty) assassinating Salvatore in the mission dubbed as Sayonara Salvatore (And that's the first time I referenced a story related from the highly controversial GTA series on my blogs, but am I alright by saying this?).

And finally that the America's Cup races is coming soon with start of the preliminaries in Barcelona, Spain which runs from Thursday on the 22nd to Sunday on the 25th (Friday to Monday New Zealand time) in which Emirates Team New Zealand will take part along with the 5 challengers from France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom & the United States participating in the Louis Vuitton Cup, but I know it is back after 3 years away since ETNZ retained sailing's most treasured prize of the Auld Mug for our second successful defence with the main regatta due to get underway next month with the LV Cup then the AC match in October (And this year's AC is the first sporting event to take place following the Paris Olympics (Which is one of by far, my greatest moments of my life of all time in terms of watching sport on television in which I saw our country of New Zealand win none other than a record breaking 10 gold medals at the Olympic Games on TV (Including the Black Ferns rugby sevens team, Brooke Francis & Lucy Spoors, Finn 'The Butcher' Butcher, Ellesse Andrews not once but twice, Dame Lisa Carrington not once, not twice but 3 times (One with Tara Vaughan, Olivia Brett & Alicia Hoskin (Who got the gold not once but twice just like Andrews), the 2nd with Hoskin & the 3rd on her own when she had gone solo), Lydia 'Lyds' Ko & Hamish Kerr), the most by NZ since Los Angeles in 1984 (Which was the most successful for our country at the Olympics to date until 40 years later in Paris where we took over from LA of being NZ's greatest ever Olympics spectacle but most electrifying of all time) & it was better than the All Blacks retaining the Rugby World Cup in 2015 in England after our epic victory in the final against the Wallabies at Twickenham in London, then it was much sweeter than Emirates Team New Zealand's second successful defence of the America's Cup on home waters in Auckland in 2021 in a year which was still marred by the COVID pandemic, & more meaningful than the Black Caps inaugural WTC (World Test Championship) triumph against India in the final at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton in the same year) & the third of this year along with the Euros in Germany (Won by Spain who pulverised England in the final in Berlin to claim their first Euros championship since 2012, & the first to win 4 titles in order to become the most successful football playing nation from the European continent) & the Olympic Games in the French capital of Paris like I said before).

So that is my 567th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 43rd of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.

Harmonic Generator: My 42nd blog of the year 2024

Well, what's up guys & girls, it's Whetu Ngapo here on my Kiwiavenger blog but first, the world champion Springboks side (Who haven't won a Southern Hemisphere rugby tournament since 2019 which was World Cup year, & I fear that they might have claimed the heavy favourites tag to win the title this year, but there was a very interesting selection made by coach Johan 'Rassie' Erasmus that they put young Sascha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (Who is one of the rising stars in South African rugby as he is a graduate of the Under 20s before being fast tracked into the senior team) in as the starting first five while they also put Handre Pollard (The best first-five eighth in the world currently) in the reserve back position, but was it the right call? Hell yes they would but they would've put Pollard in as first five with Feinberg-Mngomezulu in the reserve back position) open their account in this years Rugby Championship with a convincing win over the Wallabies (That's their first loss under new coach Joe Schmidt) at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, but rugby history has been made as Argentina (Who were ruthless throughout the entire test led by it's inspirational skipper of ex-Crusader Pablo Matera (Who filled in for regular captain Julian Montoya) & coached by a former test player, Felipe Contepomi), beat the All Blacks (Who without key men, dealt with injury such as the quartet of Luke Jacobson, Stephen Perofeta, Patrick Tuipulotu & captain Scott Barrett in which we were inconsistent on that occasion, but there was a yellow card against All Black blindside flanker Ethan Blackadder for a blatant but careless high tackle on an Argentinian player Joel Sclavi in which the war on malicious, illegal dangerous head contact in rugby continues) for the 3rd time (First it was Sydney 2020, then Christchurch in 2022 (Same year that the Argentinians went on to win the most recent Football World Cup in Qatar) & now most recently Wellington this year, but what went wrong for New Zealand to suffer a defeat against the Argentinians who made history for the 3rd time like that? Because we didn't exactly get it right after our first loss in international rugby since the World Cup final last year against the world champions of the mighty dominant Springboks (And now we are 3 & 1 this year after that dreadful result in Wellington) at Sky Stadium in Wellington (Even though we had a poor record at this city, but our last win came in 2018 against France a year after defeat against the British & Irish Lions which was marred by Sonny Bill Williams who was the first All Black in 5 decades since the late great Sir Colin Meads & the 3rd to be ordered off in a test (Along with the late Cyril Brownlie, Meads, Scott Barrett twice, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Scott's bro Jordie Barrett, Angus Ta'avao, Brodie Retallick, Ethan de Groot & Sam Cane) before drawing once against Australia in 2020 & losing it twice against both the South Africans in 2018 (That was the year before ending a 12 year wait of winning Rugby World Cups in 2019, then they won the next one last year in France) & Ireland (Who made history becoming the first side since France in 1994 to win a test series against the All Blacks, & the first during the professional era) in 2022 at this ground) which resulted our first defeat under our new coach of 'Razor' & since last years Rugby World Cup final against South Africa in which we had a tough game to start with when we were 5 points ahead at half-time before the Argentinians went in for the kill as they played consistently when they added 13 points to our AB's side who added 10 more (And will there be a turnaround in the next test for New Zealand? Well, absolutely, because our unbeaten run at the Garden of Eden at Eden Park in Auckland is on the line on the 17th of August in which the AB's has never been beaten at that venue & the city since 1994 against France who made history as they won the 2nd test to take victory in the 2 match test series courtesy from 'The try from the end of the world' which etched into French rugby folklore according to the previous blogs that I did, a year before the unthinkable was happened where the Springboks first won the RWC in 1995 which united the country & their late great leader Nelson Mandela in one of by far, South Africa's most iconic sporting moments as I mentioned in my previous blogs) therefore it was a bit of payback to them who lost against us in the semifinal at the World Cup last year (But I wonder the headlines would say: ARGENTINA OVERPOWER AB'S FOR 3RD WIN AGAINST THEM IN WELLY, or more like: ARGY BARGIES SHOCK THE RUGBY WORLD WITH UPSET VICTORY AGAINST NZ, but what a disappointing end for New Zealand, what a match for our viewers right around the world (And it must have been the mistakes that the AB's had which contributed to our boil over defeat, especially at our own goal line (Yeah, terrible stuff, absolutely terrible stuff that hurt us meaning that we were gutted of course, but this is amateur stuff, absolute amateur stuff) in which Will Jordan got a hat-trick of tries & ended the tournament as the top try scorer with 8 along with the late great Jonah Lomu in 1999 & Julian Savea in 2015 (The last time we successfully won a global showpiece rugby tournament).

And the All Blacks side has been named for round 2 of the Rugby Championship test against Argentina on August 17th at the garden of Eden at Eden Park in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland (AKA the City of Sails where the AB's have never been defeated at that venue & at the city since 1994 (The year where my cuzzie Paige (My cousin's daughter's mother & my biological aunty's daughter) was born on the 5th of April) against France), but the most recent test between the 2 countries was on August 10th during the Rugby Championship opener where Argentina made history for the 3rd time as they beat New Zealand by 8 points at Sky Stadium in Wellington (Therefore our torrid run in Wellington continues) for our first defeat in international rugby since the World Cup final last year against the world champions South Africa, so here is the starting lineup according to Razor (And chance to bounce back following a defeat like that in Welly):

STARTING XV

FORWARD PACK

FRONT ROW

1 (Loose head prop): Tamaiti Williams (Crusaders/Canterbury)

2 (Hooker): Codie Taylor (Crusaders/Canterbury)

3 (Tight head prop): Tyrel Lomax (Hurricanes/Tasman)

SECOND ROW

4 (No.4 lock): Tupou Vaa'i (Chiefs/Taranaki)

5 (No.5 lock): Sam Darry (Blues/Canterbury)

LOOSE FORWARDS

6 (Blind side flanker): Ethan Blackadder (Crusaders/Tasman)

7 (Open side flanker): Dalton Papali'i (Blues/Counties Manukau)

8 (Number 8): Ardie Savea (Captain, Moana Pasifika/Wellington)

BACK LINE

HALVES

9 (Half-back): TJ Perenara (Hurricanes/Wellington)

10 (First five-eighth): Damian McKenzie (Chiefs/Waikato)

MIDFIELD

12 (Second five-eighth): Jordie Barrett (Hurricanes/Taranaki)

13 (Centre): Rieko Ioane (Blues/Auckland)

OUTSIDE BACKS

11 (Left wing): Caleb Clarke (Blues/Auckland)

14 (Right wing): Will Jordan (Crusaders/Tasman)

& 15 (Fullback): Beauden Barrett (Blues/Taranaki)

& REPLACEMENT PLAYERS

16 (Reserve hooker): Asafo Aumua

17 (Reserve loose head prop): Ofa Tu'ungafasi

18 (Reserve tight head prop): Fletcher Newell

19 (Reserve lock): Josh Lord

20 (Reserve loose forward): Sam Cane (Who is brought back into the AB's squad, replacing Wallace Sititi to cover the openside flanker position)

21 (Reserve half-back): Cortez Ratima

22 (Reserve midfielder): Anton Lienert-Brown (Who is dropped to the bench as he makes way for Rieko Ioane who is promoted to the starting XV)

& 23 (Reserve outside back): Mark Tele'a (Who is also dropped to the bench, replacing Will Jordan who is elevated to the starting lineup at right wing)

And we decided to move on from the disappointment of the AB's losing to Argentina in Wellington (For which I'll be going with Pops in January next year because I have never been to Transmission Gully highway before as well as I've never met Norah (Who is 22 months as of today but I always see pictures of her on social media online taken from Pops phone) for my whole life & I haven't met both Norah's grandmother Cathey Middelplaats (57) & Norah's mum as well as Cathey's daughter Paige Ahearn (30) since 2016, even though if the weather is decent as Pops told me during our Sunday roast dinner with Carole at her place on the 11th of August, but we'll definitely stay in a motel once we get there as Pops said to me 2 days later on the 13th of August, even if there is a vacancy available, & also I've never been to Jerry Collins Stadium before which is located in Porirua (And I have been to Sky Stadium before like 4 times) behind them as we head to Paris in France for the Olympics when Dame Lisa Carrington has struck her 7th gold with Alicia Hoskin (That's her 2nd gold since being part of the K4 500 crew with Carrington, Olivia Brett & the young 20 year old Tara Vaughan (Whose idol is Carrington when Vaughan was growing up as a young kid & was 8 when Carrington first collected the gold back in 2012 in London) in the women's K2 500 then it is all plain sailing for Carrington (Whose form had been a bit shaky before Paris quite frankly, manages to overcome her loss of form during the Olympics by defying the odds as she got over it, needless to say) did it again in the women's K1 500 to still become the most successful Olympian from our country as well as still cementing her status as the GOAT as she completed her unprecedented 8th gold medal throughout her illustrious but decorated Olympic career to add to her bronze won in Rio by finishing the story as the 35 year old Carrington from Whahatane in the Bay of Plenty region announced already that the Paris Olympics would be her last as she has already had her swansong by bidding farewell (Her main challenger Aimee Fisher (Who beat Carrington in a pre-Olympic trials before Paris) was out of the medal position as she narrowly missed out on a medal chance & came agonizingly close when Fisher finished 4th in the K1 500 A final) before female golfer Lydia Ko (Who won silver in Rio, then bronze in Tokyo & now gold right there in Paris for the Kiwi who was originally born in South Korea & was the one who twice won in the majors thus confirming her status for her induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame) has struck gold for New Zealand in the golf to cement her status as the immortal when she had her winning score of 10 under which was 2 shots ahead of Germany's Esther Henseleit who became a silver medalist when she finished her score of 8 under during the 4th & final day of the women's stroke play event (& that's golf, moving on), & then all of a sudden that Hamish Kerr (Who was originally from Dunedin in the Otago region, but was educated at Auckland Grammar School) had just became the 2nd Kiwi golden boy at the Olympics along with Finn Butcher (Otago was his home province (He was originally from Alexandra then he lived in Dunedin (Which was Kerr's birthplace) before being based in Auckland) as Kerr successfully won the athletics high jump event (He had won the jump off against an American competitor named Shelby McEwen (Who was Hamish Kerr's main opponent during the jump off) to win in order to become Olympic champion & make history which was a key highlight for me this Olympics in which Kerr provided the clutch moment when former New Zealand hepathlete of Sarah Cowley who was working as a commentator when she famously uttered when Kerr went on to win as Cowley was getting excited & had gone berserk: "YES HE CAN!") in which a record 9 gold medals won by New Zealand at Paris this year (10 now since Ellesse Andrews (The world champion who is 24 years of age as of today & was 4 when her sporting heroine Sarah Ulmer collected the gold in Athens way back in 2004) picked up her second gold as well as our 10th & final gold medal for New Zealand in Paris at the Olympics in the women's sprint track cycling as she beat her German opponent of Lea Frederich who won the silver for her country in the women's sprint final consisting of the best of 3 first to 2 format therefore extending our record for most gold medals won by New Zealand at the Olympics because we're 2 ahead of the previous all-time record set in LA in 1984), is by far, the most successful Olympic Games ever of our country to date of all time, surpassing the now previous all-time record set in Los Angeles in 1984 with 8 (And we had a disappointing Rugby World Cup in France last year in which the ever popular All Blacks missed out on World Cup glory which went to the Springboks side who were still champions of the world in a story billed as the scars of '23 due to a costly red card by AB's captain at the time of Sam Cane thwarted us, but our country had a great but most excellent success at the Olympics we ever had in Paris this year with a record 9 golds to our tally (Or 10 as of today) to go along with the 7 silvers & both bronzes (It's up to 3 as of today), but China could end up topping the medal table at the end of the Olympics for the first time since their home games at Beijing 2008 with their remarkable 39 golds, just 1 ahead of United States after the penultimate day (But there has been an update as the Americans finish the games on top of the medal table, but ahead of the Chinese (Who had won the same gold medals as with the US) based on a countback for most medals won, but I heard that American Generation Z pop princess of Billie Eilish (Who recently released her single LUNCH as I heard it on the Brian FM radio station) had performed during the closing ceremony of Paris 2024 in which me & Pops missed it but I've got it on record just in case (And that's all that we got for, see you then in Los Angeles, California, United States for the next Olympics in four years time in 2028, mate wa), but unfortunately somehow, I deleted it).

And I've recently got the PS5 slim now, & I'm always falling in love with my PS5 slim (Well, the PS5 slim is sorta like my romantic partner just like Pops has with his partner slash mate Carole) because of the 1 GB being packed with storage so I moved my original PS5 to the living room & if I get the PS5 Pro if it's available, I'll move my PS5 slim to the living room while I'm giving my original PS5 to my cousin Paige (And I don't know whether she's into gaming unlike her husband Jarrod who plays with his Xbox according to my cuzzie emailing me in 2016 when he played GTA Online, but I prefer both GTA San Andreas (Definitive edition on the PS4 via I play on the PS5 slim console) & Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360 version also via I play on the Xbox Series X console) as my favourite GTA games (And I secretly play both of them indeed, but the main games that I play on my PS5 Slim console is Gran Turismo 7 (PS5), Tekken 8 (PS5), Soulcalibur VI (PS4), Star Wars Battlefront II (PS4, 2017 version) & F1 2020 (PS4).

And finally news straight out of the United States as US Vice President & Democratic presidental candidate Kamala Harris has maintained her lead in 3 key states against the former US president Donald Trump (The one who met UFC boss Dana White before as I briefly saw on TV with UFC being a global phenomenon according to the estimates (And Kiwi based Nigerian Israel Adesanya is due to fight against a South African of Dricus du Plessis who is the champion at UFC 305 held at RAC Arena in Perth, WA, Australia on the 18th of August) with the US general election 3 months away (And I fear that the likelihood of World War III could be happening if Trump loses to Harris but if Trump beats Harris & wins, Israel's invasion of Hamas would likely end according to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who recently met Trump at the heavily secure Mar-el-Lago in Florida, but Israel's sickening war on Hamas would've not occurred if Trump had been re-elected as the US president in 2020/21 but who knows?).

So that is my 566th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 42nd of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.

Counting the Beat/How Bizarre/Royals/Victoria: My 41st blog of the year 2024

Well, hi everybody, this is Whetu Ngapo here on my Kiwiavenger blog but first, I have announced that I decided to go to Wellington next year in January 2025 (But the Wellington holiday goes ahead as planned, but on only one condition that Cathey, Paige & Norah will have to be there in Welly especially in Petone for the time being) with either Pops or Pops & Carole or Pops, Aunty Tan & Rejean if both Aunty Tan & Rejean are here since Dad dropped out of taking me there due to his work commitments that he's currently tied up with meaning that he won't make it, mainly for whanau reasons because of my willingness of meeting Paige Ahearn (My 30 year old cousin/cuzzie who is in fact my bestie as well as honorary sister just like Kelsey Nicholls & my imaginary mate) again mainly who I have not seen her since 2016 along with Paige's mum Cathey Middelplaats (My biological aunty who could be in the mix as my bestie along with Andy Webb just like Paige & Andy's wife Kelsey, but Cathey is old because she is 57 now) as well as Paige's daughter & Cathey's granddaughter Norah who I have never met in my whole life (And I've once said that Cathey Middelplaats is a bit of both a Alanis Morissette (The famous female Canadian-American pop rock singer), Danielle Cormack (Famous Kiwi actress who once appeared on Wentworth as well as Shorty Street & movies such as Channeling Baby, the Price of Milk & Without a Paddle) & Famke Janssen (The famous female Dutch actress who appeared in I Spy, Taken & the X-Men trilogy) lookalike, while Cathey's daughter Paige Ahearn (Who is a full time mum as of today by always taking care of her daughter Norah (I'm not sure what is her surname (It might be Williams-Ahearn but I don't know it at all) but I know Paige's husband Jarrod's surname, & it is Ahearn according to the email that she sent to me circa mid 2016 to early 2018 & she managed to marry Jarrod last year after years of dating together like she first dated him at 18 a year after getting her full drivers license at 17, meanwhile she safely came back home along with Jarrod in 2020 from London in the UK just right before the start of the global COVID pandemic after spending nearly 3 years over there on an OE (Overseas experience) as Pops told me before 4 years ago) reminds me of both Black Ferns 7s rugby player Sarah Hirini & Sky Sport TV presenter Kirstie Stanway because of her uncanny as well as close but remarkable resemblance to both in contrast of Pops looking like the late great British actor Sean Connery as well as Dad who is a bit of a doppelgaenger of former New Zealand cricketer Daniel Vettori & for me, well I look like Austin Powers from the Austin Powers movie trilogy according to the comment from Pops in 2017 (Smashing baby, yeah baby yeah! Oh behave, but Pops once saw an Austin Powers impersonator way back when the city of Wellington that once had a rugby sevens event), but I'm into fashion because of my new shirt & jacket that Pops gave it to me as well as my girly hair & glasses, reminds me of being a fanboy of the Britpop rock music genre inspired by the former frontman of the UK Britpop band, the Verve of Richard Ashcroft.

And the latest on the Olympics such as the France men's sevens team claimed gold against the 2 time gold medalists Fiji (Who I thought should've won in the end) in the gold medal match all thanks to the AB's old foe of Antoine Dupont who would finally claim the gold after appearing in the quarterfinal with the French national team who fell short to the eventual champions South Africa at last year's Rugby World Cup, but in the rowing department as Emma Twigg didn't get the gold that she deserved for as she got beaten by the Dutch competitor who snatched gold from her who Twigg was having a tough race by claiming silver therefore unable to follow it up to her success in Tokyo (And our country is 14th on the medal table (And 15th according to the updated medal table as of August 5th) but we're stuck on both golds (Which was won by the Black Ferns sevens led by both co-captains of the departing Sarah Hirini & Risi Pouri-Lane in women's rugby sevens, then Francis & Spoors in the rowing women's double sculls) along with 4 silvers (Such as Finn Butcher for example who is now an Olympic champion in the canoe slalom as he had a perfect start before he got the gold ahead of a British opponent & World No.1 of Joseph Clarke who got the silver then the German competitor named Noah Hegge had claimed the bronze, then it was Ellesse Andrews in the women's keirin track cycling when at that moment as Andrews who became the 1st woman from New Zealand to win an Olympic track cycling event since Sarah Ulmer herself in Athens, Greece way back in 2004 & the women's K4 500m consisting of Tara Vaughan, Olivia Brett, Alicia Hoskin & the GOAT herself of Dame Lisa Carrington (It's a 6th gold medal for Carrington (Who is in her final ever Olympics in Paris before possibly retiring) since she made her debut in London in 2012) & just the one bronze (Including the sisters from Whanganui such as Jackie Gowler & Kerri Williams), but the People's Republic of China currently lead the medal table ahead of the US, & it is reminiscent of Beijing 2008 where the Chinese ended up topping the medal table after the Olympic Games at their home Olympics in Beijing (And there was Zheng Qin Wen (The one that was runner up to Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open earlier this year) who claimed gold in the women's tennis as she defeated her Croatian opponent Donna Vekic (The one who beat New Zealander Lulu Sun in the ladies singles quarterfinals at Wimbeldon) in the women's gold medal match, becoming the first female Chinese player to do so while the gold medal match in the men's singles is set, it is going to be Novak Djokovic of Serbia against Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, in a rematch of the gentlemen's singles final at Wimbeldon which had gone in the way of the Spaniard of Alcaraz, but there has been an update as Djokovic has finally becoming the Olympic champion in men's tennis as he got payback from Wimbeldon as he had beaten Alcaraz who had to settle for the silver (And the bronze medal went to the Italian of Lorenzo Musetti) in one of another greatest revenge stories in sport of all-time compared to Israel 'The Last Style Bender' Adesanya's win over Alex Pereira last year at UFC 287 & there is a new king in the athletics 100m event which was won by an American competitor of Noah Lyles who thought that he got beaten by a Jamaican Kishane Thompson (Who thought he had it before Lyles (Who revealed that he had COVID when he narrowly missed out on winning the 200m because it went to a competitor from Botswana named Letsile Tebogo who was the first African in history to win the 200m & also the United States who were favourites to win the 4x100m title, but got disqualified which resulted in Canada led by its sprinter Andre De Grasse, becoming the Olympic champion while Aunty Tan who alluded to me on the phone on the 12th of August as she was so damn impressed about it, especially the result in which the people of Canada were stoked) had been declared the Olympic champion) but wow, he got it! As he is now the new world's fastest man as well as the first American since Justin Gatlin in 2004 at Athens to claim gold in the 100m (Then it was the GOAT of Usain Bolt who dominated the next 3 in Beijing 2008, London 2012 & Rio 2016 before the Italian of Lamont Marcell Jacobs took over from him last time out in Tokyo 3 years ago).

And also the latest on the football stuff in England just before the brand new Premier League season which is due to get underway on the 17th of August such as fines being handed out against defending Premier League champions Manchester City for nearly $3 million for deliberately delaying the game (Which is a lesser known rule) 22 times during their home games as they repeatedly coming out late for both the beginning of matches & after half-time (In a headline billed as: TIME IS MONEY) with their coach Pep Guardiola expected to make changes in an effort to shorten his half-time team talks, according to the statement from Premier League but when will Manchester City's invicibility of winning Premier League championships end? If they shorten all those half time team talks to avoid getting fined again for deliberately delaying the game (And unlike Newcastle United that in 1995-96 that they nearly won the Premier League because they had their best chance of winning the English league which had gone the way of Manchester United (And Leicester City had managed to pull it off to win the Premier League championship in 2015-16 which was the greatest giant killing Cinderella stories of all time in akin to a David against Goliath battle, in terms of the history of English football by an Italian manager named Claudio Ranieri (The ex-Chelsea coach) who acquired cheap players such as Frenchman N'Golo Kante, Austrian Christian Fuchs, Jamaican Wes Morgan & Englishman Jamie Vardy).

And finally the All Blacks team has been named for our opening Rugby Championship test against Argentina in 2 days time on August 10th at Sky Stadium in the nation's capital of Wellington (AKA Welly, the Windy City & Wellywood), but the most recent test between the 2 countries was last year during the Rugby World Cup semifinal where the All Blacks (Who have never lost a test since last years ill-fated Rugby World Cup final against the defending world champions South Africa at the Stade de France (Venue for so much of the Paris Olympics this year) in Paris, France in October 2023) had a comprehensive win against the Argentinians with Will Jordan scoring a hat-trick in which he was the top try scorer at rugby's global showpiece event in 2023, so here is the starting lineup according to Razor:

STARTING XV

FORWARD PACK

FRONT ROW

1 (Loose head prop): Ethan de Groot (Highlanders/Southland)

2 (Hooker): Codie Taylor (Crusaders/Canterbury)

3 (Tight head prop): Tyrel Lomax (Hurricanes/Tasman)

SECOND ROW

4 (No.4 lock): Tupou Vaa'i (Chiefs/Taranaki)

5 (No.5 lock): Sam Darry (Blues/Canterbury)

LOOSE FORWARDS

6 (Blind side flanker): Ethan Blackadder (Crusaders/Tasman)

7 (Open side flanker): Dalton Papali'i (Blues/Counties Manukau)

8 (Number 8): Ardie Savea (Captain, Moana Pasifika/Wellington)

BACK LINE

HALVES

9 (Half-back): TJ Perenara (Hurricanes/Wellington)

10 (First five-eighth): Damian McKenzie (Chiefs/Waikato)

MIDFIELD

12 (Second five-eighth): Jordie Barrett (Hurricanes/Taranaki)

13 (Centre): Anton Lienert-Brown (Chiefs/Waikato)

OUTSIDE BACKS

11 (Left wing): Mark Tele'a (Blues/North Harbour)

14 (Right wing): Sevu Reece (Crusaders/Southland)

& 15 (Fullback): Beauden Barrett (Blues/Taranaki)

& REPLACEMENT PLAYERS

16 (Reserve hooker): Asafo Aumua (Who replaces George Bell to return at the reserve hooker position role)

17 (Reserve loose head prop): Ofa Tu'ungafasi (Who also replaces Ethan de Groot with de Groot elevated to the run-on XV therefore covering the loose head prop position)

18 (Reserve tight head prop): Fletcher Newell (Who replaces Pasilio Tosi to cover at tight head prop)

19 (Reserve lock): Josh Lord (Who also replaces Sam Darry (Who is elevated to the starting lineup as the starting no.5 lock) to make a return to test rugby after a long injury layoff)

20 (Reserve loose forward): Wallace Sititi

21 (Reserve half-back): Cortez Ratima (Who is dropped to the bench to replace Noah Hotham with TJ Perenara returning from injury as the starting halfback)

22 (Reserve midfielder): Rieko Ioane (Who returns as he makes way for Jordie Barrett who is promoted to the starting XV)

& 23 (Reserve outside back): Will Jordan (Who plays his first All Black test since last years Rugby World Cup final before injury took him out for the entire Super Rugby Pacific campaign this year for the Crusaders)

So that is my 565th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 41st of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.