Well, welcome to our readers here in New Zealand, & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger, but first that it looks like that Britain's Lando Norris (McLaren) who maybe well be on a chance of claiming his maiden Formula One World Championship (In which he'll attempt to become the 1st Brit to win the title since current Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton who last did it in 2020), & put an end to the utter dominance of Dutchman Max Verstappen who became world champion for the last 4 seasons after pulverising the rest of the field to take the easiest of wins in Mexico therefore heading to Brazil at Interlagos who gears up to host the Sao Paulo Grand Prix for a crucial race there (And I don't know whether Liam Lawson could return to Red Bull to replace Yuki Tsunoda (He might be going to IndyCar there as the list of Japanese drivers crossing over such as former Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato), or if he had chosen to stay for his most favoured constructor of RB Racing Bulls for next season) where it is the home race of last year's F2 champion as well as F1 rookie of Kick Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto (And there hasn't been a Brazilian driver who had raced in a home Grand Prix since Felipe Massa back in 2017) in which the Brazilian crowd will be cheering him on throughout the entire Grand Prix (And the latest in F1 as both McLarens of Oscar Piastri who finished 2nd behind the winner of Max Verstappen & current World Championship leader Lando Norris who narrowly missed out on a podium finish had been disqualified in Las Vegas for excessive plank wear, therefore Norris's lead in the World Championship had been trimmed to 24 going into the next race in the penultimate round of the season in Qatar (And here is the equation that if Lando will have to require of beating Max, & has a favourable result if Verstappen gets a DNF meaning that maiden championship is his for the very first time as he is desperately attempting to end the championship reign of Max Verstappen that lasted since 2021 throughout, & become the first Brit since Lewis Hamilton in 2020 to claim the F1 crown).
And secondly onto the rugby related stuff that it's been a decade since the late All Black Jonah Lomu (And how many times have I mentioned him on my blogs? I did that countless number of times about him) who was by far the greatest rugby player of all-time hands down (And he was our national sporting hero of our country of New Zealand back then along with Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Sir Richard Hadlee, the late Martin Crowe, the late Sir Peter Blake, Sir Russell Coutts & Peter Burling, compared to Brazil that they used to have both the late Pele & the late Ayrton Senna, India which used to have Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar & Virat Kohli, Australia that used to have the late Sir Don Bradman, the late Shane Warne, Wally Lewis, John Eales & Jimmy Spithill, the United States which used to have the late Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady & Dennis Conner, Canada that used to have both Wayne Gretzky & Jacques Villeneuve, Germany used to have Franz Beckenbauer, Lothar Matthaeus, Philipp Lahm & Michael Schumacher, the UK has Sir Lewis Hamilton, Kiwi born Ben Stokes, Jonny Wilkinson & Sir Ben Ainslie, Argentina used to have the late Diego Maradona, but they have Lionel Messi, France used to have both Didier Deschamps & Zinedine Zidane, but they also have Kylian Mbappe & Antoine Dupont, Switzerland used to have Roger Federer, Spain used to have Rafael Nadal & Andres Iniesta, but they have Fernando Alonso, Portugal used to have the late Eusebio, but they currently have Cristiano Ronaldo, Serbia has both Novak Djokovic & Nikola Jokic, Greece has Giannis Antetokounmpo, South Africa used to have Francois Pienaar, & John Smit, but has both Siya Kolisi & Temba Bavuma, Japan has Shohei Ohtani & Michael Leitch, Italy once had both Gianluigi Buffon & Giorgio Chellini, but has Gigi Donnarumma, Pakistan once had both Imran Khan & Wasim Akram, & the Netherlands once had Ruud Gullit & Marco van Basten, but they currently have Max Verstappen), had passed away young aged 40 in Auckland back in 2015 (Same year that Jerry Collins also passed away in a tragic accident in France when a bus collided a car that took him, & his Canadian partner's life, even though the deceased couple's daughter managed to survive the impact, but she is now raised in Canada by her relatives) mainly due to a cardiac arrest related to the kidney disease that he picked up throughout his life which was a bit tragic & heartbreaking, so he was a loyal servant as well as a true legend of New Zealand rugby while he did all he can when he came so close of becoming the youngest ever men's Rugby World Cup winning player (But that honour went to South Africa's Frans Steyn way back in 2007) where New Zealand had fallen short against South Africa (Who had the late Lomu's friend off the field of Joel Stransky kicked the winning field goal during extra time that united the host country, as well as their leader of the late Nelson Mandela who attended the final according to the previous blogs that I did) in the final at Ellis Park in Joburg during the final of the 1995 men's Rugby World Cup, but his legendary moments were bumping off Mike Catt to score his 1st of 4 tries in the semi against England in one of his all-time best performances in the black jersey way, way back in 1995 (A year before being part of the Blues squad that won the inaugural Super 12 championship also way, way back in 1996 when they beat the Sharks in the final at Eden Park in Auckland) that made him a household name of the sport here in our country, & of course, last but not least, he scored the winning try against the Wallabies also way back in 2000 (Same year that he helped Wellington win the NPC title against Canterbury in the final at Lancaster Park in Christchurch, including swatting off Marika Vunibaka a few times before he made it all the way to the try line to score) in Sydney, Australia in front of over 109,000 people in attendance if not one of the greatest ever rugby tests of the century.
And thirdly that there was once a gaming story about the Mortal Kombat series (Founded by Ed Boon (The creator of the franchise whose fave fighting game series is Tekken in that he loves to play it during his spare time, thinking that he is a gamer himself) for which I've got it on both the PS4 (I mainly play that version, but I used to) & PS5 versions of the game called Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, but my fave character would always be Johnny Cage who is the famous Hollywood A-lister as he uses his martial arts skills by putting himself to the test when he enters the mysterious Mortal Kombat tournament for which I clocked it twice, one on the Arcade version of the 1st MK game & the other on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version (For which is easier than the arcade version) of the same game) when they released the 1st Mortal Kombat game that has parents terrified & senators who were shocked about the high impact violence system that has concerned young gamers, & after all of that kerfuffle, embarrassment & frustration surrounding the controversy of the series that the Entertainment Software Rating Board had been formed since that fateful moment regarding to legislation makers in the United States who reluctantly agreed upon most circumstances.
And finally in the rugby department that the sports governing body of World Rugby is announcing a crack down on teams who wear green like Ireland for example play against teams who wear red also like Wales for example in a bid to address people who are colourblind beginning from the 2027 men's Rugby World Cup just to avoid CVD (Colour vision deficiency) sufferers who see double by helping them see things easier (And they had already been implemented since last year where the Welsh wore their away kit against South Africa's predominantly green jersey while the Irish wore green kits against Wales's red kit for the last time at a Six Nations match in 2024 before they enforced of coming down hard on teams wearing green against teams wearing red kits thinking that a colourblind person says it's either green against green or red against red).
So that is my 643rd blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 67th of this year, viva Ukraine.
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