Well, hey guys & girls, welcome to all our audience here in New Zealand & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo, & you're tuning in to my Kiwiavenger blog, but first in the rugby that the All Blacks have missed out on a win against France led by the best rugby player in the world of Antoine Dupont (A Summer Games gold medalist in rugby sevens for his country at their home games as they ended the reign of Fiji who dominated the first 2 Olympics in both Rio & Tokyo in the gold medal match) by a single point at the Stade de France in Paris, & that's not the way my goodness but, where was the consistency? And I mean what went wrong to suffer a test defeat against the French? (And our first since against the world champions South Africa in Cape Town due to that yellow card against starting All Black prop Tyrel Lomax for taking Cheslin Kolbe out off the ball which allowed reserve Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx to go in for the kill & score the winning try which was shades of Grant Williams scoring that winning try in Joburg after All Black reserve prop Ofa Tu'ungafasi had to spend 10 minutes in the bin for deliberately pulling down a maul) Is that we did not get it right as we led at halftime but we managed to slip during the 2nd half as we fell short by the barest of margins in which France pulled off moment inspired by Donald Trump's US election win, but Carole told me after the game that it's not as we lost by a whisker, but I'm totally devastated & gutted about the result (That was disappointing I have to say that it was a tiny bit unlucky, & that's what's happened) but our next test is against Italy (One of 2 tier 1 sides along with Scotland to have never have won against the AB's) at Allianz Stadium Torino in which we hope that we get back to winning ways to end the test year last year.
And finally that there was flooding in Spain that occurred such as the areas of Valencia & Barcelona after last year's America's Cup was held which resulted in 216 casualties as nearly half of the flood victims in Valencia where over 70 figures show due to floods & torrential rain have not gone away & residents hail stories of heroism as the clean-up continues as when the flash floods swept through Valencia, there was the destruction of pricless family mementoes as the waters were engulfed the ground floor flat of Marilo Grandoli in the worst storm in history, unlike in Dunedin in which they experienced severe flooding in which the city suffered the wettest day in history as heavy rain causes significant flooding in Dunedin that took place in early to mid October last year (And there was storm Darragh that ravaged across the UK & Ireland also last year which postponed a Merseyside derby game between Everton & league leaders Liverpool, then there was Storm Eowyn which bursted towards Northern Ireland & parts of Scotland on the 23rd of January as they brought in strong winds, heavy rain & snow with the worst of the weather forecast for Friday, & then in 2023, there was storm Minerva which ravaged parts of Italy in which residents told to evacuate which resulted the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola which is near Bologna had to be called off due to severe rain (And just like in 2019 that Typhoon Hagibis had ravaged most parts of Japan which cancelled Saturday qualifying during the Japanese Grand Prix that has been moved to Sunday while a Rugby World Cup Pool B match between Italy & the All Blacks had been cancelled as a result of the typhoon along with the cancellation of the Pool C clash between England & France & another Pool B match had been called off between Canada & Namibia in Kamaishi (The site of Uruguay's historic upset win over Fiji during the 2019 tournament).
And news in the motor racing department such as Will Brown (A former teammate of the most recent Bathurst 1000 winning driver of Brodie Kostecki (Who was the champion in 2023) during the Erebus Motorsport days) has been crowned the new Supercars champion after he finished 2nd in the penultimate race of the season at the season finale in Adelaide which was worthy enough to clinch the title after one of his title rivals & team mates in the Red Bull Ampol Racing stable of Broc Feeney who failed to impress as he didn't get enough sufficent points to keep his title quest alive.
And finally in our news regarding to our whanau that I'll still have Paige as my honorary sister, because of my intentions of meeting her again along with Cathey & Norah which is listed as one day as Dad alluded to me on the phone on the 15th of November last year since I have called off the proposed Wellington trip altogether as a result of Wellington being too far from here in Whanganui, & of Pops old age & mainly inflation because everything is still dear at the moment (But we'll go if we want to but only if the weather is decent).
So that is my 583rd blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 7th of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.
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