5000 m Athletics Rio 2016

Men's 5000 m

Athletics

1. Gold medal 

Mohamed Muktar Jama "Mo" Farah, CBE (born 23 March 1983) is a British distance runner. On the track, he mostly competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, but has run competitively from 1500 metres to the marathon. He was the winner of the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:03.30.

The most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, he is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. He is the second athlete in modern Olympic Games history, after Lasse Viren, to successfully defend the 5000 m and 10,000 m titles. Farah also completed the double at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics. He was the second man in history to win long-distance doubles at successive Olympics and World Championships, and the first in history to do the quadruple-double. 

2.Silver medal

Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo  (born October 27, 1990) is a Kenyan-born American track and field athlete. He is the 2016 Olympic silver medalist at 5000 meters. He represented the United States in the 3000 meters at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships held in Portland, Oregon. He qualified to the World Championships by taking second place at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships on the same track a week earlier, setting a personal record of 7:39.00. He was the winner of the silver medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:03.90.

Chelimo ran a personal best 13:19.54 in the prelim of the 5000 metres at the 2016 summer Olympics. During the final he stayed near the lead the entire race, withstanding every attack the Ethiopian teammates were trying to throw against eventual winner Mo Farah. 

3. Bronze medal

Hagos Gebrhiwet Berhe, born 11 May 1994, is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and current World Junior Record in the 5000 meters  (12:47:53). He was the winner of the bronze medal in the 5000 metres event at the 2016 summer Olympics, running a personal best time 13:04.35.

He took up running seriously in 2010. He came sixth in the 5000 metres at the 2011 Ethiopian National Championships and was selected to run the 3000 metres at that year's World Youth Championships, where he finished fifth with a time of 7:45.11 minutes. Hagos noted that his first national selection had helped him develop his running and he went on to win the junior title at the Ethiopian Club's Cross Country, competing for Mesfin Engineering.

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800 m Athletics Rio 2016

Woman's 800 m

Athletics 

Final

1. Gold medal 

Mokgadi Caster Semenya Bronze OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and 2016 Olympic gold medalist. Semenya won gold in the women's 800 metres at the 2009 World Championships with a time of  1:55.45 in the final. Semenya also won silver medals at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics, both in the 800 metres. She was the winner of the gold medal in the 800 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,  running a personal best time 1:55.28.

Following her victory at the 2009 World Championships, it was announced that she had been subjected to gender testing. She was withdrawn from international competition until 6 July 2010 when the IAAF cleared her to return to competition. In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman included Semenya in a list of "50 People That Matter 2010".

2. Silver medal

Francine Niyonsaba (born May 5, 1993) is a Burundian runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She is the National record holder in the event, improving her own record to  1:58.67  on August 9, 2012 in the semi-final round of the Women's 800m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was a 0.01 seconds improvement on her previous record. Two days later she finished seventh in the Olympic final. Less than a month later she took the record down yet again to 1:56.59. 

She had a quick rise to prominence in 2012 while still a teenager. The first time she set the record was in late June 2012 while narrowly winning the 2012 African Championships in Athletics in 1:59.11 in what was only her third competitive race. At that, she improved upon her own previous national record of 2:02.13 , set in the qualifying round. In the opening round race, the inexperienced runner had opened up a 30 metres lead on the pack.

Three weeks later on July 20, 2012, she improved the record again to 1:58.68 while finishing second at the 2012 Diamond League meeting at Herculis. She was the winner of the silver medal in the 800 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, running a personal best time 1:56.49.

3. Bronze medal

Margaret Nyairera Wambui is a Kenya middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 metres. She competed at the 2015 World Championships and won bronze. In the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal, running a personal best time 1:56.89.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is a 2012 American action adventure film based on the Mirage Studios characters the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the sixth film of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series and a sequel to the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 The film was directed by Dave Green, written by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, and stars Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, WIll Arnett, Brian Tee, Tyler Perry, Brittany Ishibashi and Laura Linney, and featuring voices of Peter Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Tony Shalhoub, Gary Anthony Williams, Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly and Brad Garrett.

Principal photography on the film began on April 27, 2015, in New York City. It was released in theaters on June 3, 2016, in 3D, ReaID 3D, 4DX, and in IMAX 3D and received generally mixed reviews from critics, being considered by many an improvement over its predecessor, which received largely negative critical reception. It has grossed $239 million worldwide against at $135 million budget.

Production

Development

After the 2014 film exceeded box office expectations, Paramount and Nickelodeon officially announced a sequel was greenlit, and set to be released in theatres on June 3, 2016, with plans to incorporate the characters Casey Jones and Bebop and Rocksteady. Jonathan Liebesman and Bradley Fuller were also interested in doing a tory line that involved Dimension X and Krang. In December 2014, it was revealed Paramount was in early negotiations with Earth to Echo director Dave Green to helm the sequel, also revealing Jonathan Liebesman was no longer a part of the project. Known briefly as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

Casting

Megan Fox and Will Arnett were confirmed to be returning as April O'Neil and Vern Fenwick respectively, also confirmed were the Shredder's return, and Bebop and Rocksteady debut in the movie. In an interview, William Fichtner stated that he would be returning as Eric Sacks. However, for unknown reasons, he ultimately did not appear in the final film. However, he could return in the third installment, considering he along with the turtle actors, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Alan Ritchson and Pete Ploszek, signed on for three TMNT films. Production was confirmed to start in April 2015, along with the casting of Alessandra Ambrosio, and several members of the Los Angeles Clippers. On March 31, Stephen Amell was cast as Casey Jones, after test reading alongside several different actors. Amell acknowledged the character bore similarities to his Oliver Queen for Arrow. He state the characters are "fundamentally different" from one another, but that Casey did resemble Oliver from older versions. On April 23, Tyler Perry was cast as scientist Baxter Stockman, replacing K. Todd Freeman, who played the role in the 2014 film. On April 27, Brian Tee joined the cast as the Shredder, replacing Tohoru Masmune from the first film. On April 30, Laura Linney was cast in an unspecified role. On May 14, Gary Anthony Williams was cast as Bebop, while on May 28, WWE wrestler Stephen "Sheamus" farrelly was confirmed to play Rocksteady. On May 27m Minae Noji was replaced with Brittany Ishibashi in the role of Karai. In August 2015, former WWE superstar CM Punk revealed that he lost the role of Rocksteady to Sheamus. In March 2016, shortly before the films' release, it was revealed that Brad Garrett would voice Krang instead due to Armisen having schedule conflicts. In April 2016, while promotiong Elvis & Nixon, Johnny Knoxville revealed that he was not asked to return for the sequel as the voice of Leonardo.

Music

On April 2, 2016, Steve Jablonsky revealed that he would compose the music score, replacing Brian Tyler from the first film. Mexican teen boy band CD9 performed an updated version of the original show's theme song for the film. The film score soundtrack was released on Jun 3, 2016, on digital and compact discs.

Filming

Filming began in April in New York City and Buffalo, spending about $70 million in the state. Filming began on April 27, 2015, when the film crew was spotted filming in Midtown Manhattan and moved out to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. Filming in Buffalo began on May 4, 2015, along the Kensington Expressway and ended May 17,2015. Filming wrapped up in August 2015. Additional filming occurred in New York City on January 30, and ended on February 1. Farelly and Williams recorded additional dialogue for the film in February 2016.

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two strings is a 2016 American 3D stop-motion fantasy action adventure film directed by Travis Knight, written by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler, and produced by Laika. The film features the voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara and George Takei. It was released by Focus Features in the United States on August 19, 2016.

In ancient Japan, Kubo is a young boy who lives wih his ill mother in a cave on top of a mountain. Every day he goes out to a nearby village to tell stories using pieces of paper that form into origami that moves under music played from Kubo's shamisen. He tells tales of great warriors seeking revenge while battling monsters, primarily of a samurai warrior named Hanzo who is Kubo's missing father. Every day he quickly returns to his mother when the town bell chimes signaling sunset, as she instructs him not to stay outside after dark or her sisters, his aunts, and his grandfather, the Moon king, will come to take his remaining eye, as he took one of his eyes as a baby.

The next day Kubo arrives to a cemetery where late loved ones are honored and spoken to from family members, but he leaves in anger when his father does not respond to him. Because he has stayed outside after the sun sets, his mother's Sisters find him and try to take Kubo's eye. After they destroy the village, his mother arrives to fend off her sisters. His mother sends Kubo away by touching a beetle crest on his robe which gives him wings, forcing him to fly away from his mother. She tells him to find his father's armor in order to protect Kubo from his grandfather's evil spirits. He takes a piece of her hair before she is seemingly killed by her sisters.

Kubo wakes up in a snowy blizzard, and meets Monkey, who had been a little wooden monkey charm for Kubo before she was brought to life by his mother's magic. Monkey tells Kubo that she is going to help him find his armor. Kubo and Monkey ae greeted by "Little Hanzo", one of Kubo's origami that is modeled after his father. The origami shows Kubo and Monkey the way to his father's armor, where they are greeted by Beetle, a samurai who claims to have been an apprentice of Kubo's father. Beetle was cursed to take the body form of a beetle-like man, despite not having any memories of his past. He discovers that Kubo is the son of his master and vows to help him in his quest.

The origami show them the way to an underground cave where they can find Hanzo's sword. They are soon attacked by ahumongous skeleton as they try to reclaim the sword buried on the top of his skull. They do so, and the skeleton collapses to the ground where Beetle files them out of the cave. They arrive at a beach where Kubo uses his magic to create a boat out of fallen leaves, and they set sail. The trio arrive above the next piece of Hanzo's armor, the breastplate. The breastplate lies below the sea in the Garden of Eyes, where intruders are entranced and paralyzed before they are eaten by a toothed monster. Beetle and Kubo dive in to retrieve the breastplate. Kubo recovers the breastplate, but is immediately entranced. In his entranced state, Kubo has a revelation. Monkey is in fact his mother , reincarnated into physical form. Beetle rescues Kubo before he i eaten, as Monkey encounters one of the Sisters who destroys Kubo's boat. Monkey kills the Sister but is badly wounded in the process.

After arriving ashore on a nearby island, the trio rest in a cave as Monkey tells a story to Kubo with his shamisen and origami. She explains that before she met Kubo's father, she and her Sisters were sent to kill Hanzo. Instead, she fell in love with him, and they gave birth to Kubo. Her Sisters and Kubo's grandfather felt betrayed and have since branded her as an enemy. After Kubo is sent to sleep by Monkey, she tells Beetle that she will gone soon and feels that Kubo will be alone when she leaves,but Beetle promises that he will protect him. Kubo has a dream in which he greeted by a ghost who shows Kubo the last piece remaining of his father's armor, which is his samurai helmet.

Kubo tells Monkey and Beetle of his dream and they head to his father's damaged fortress to reclamim the armor, However, it is a trap and the trio is greeted by the remaining Sister who reveals that Beetle is Kubo's father, Hanzo. The Sister destroys the origami and atacks Kubo's mother and father.

Beetle is killed, and Monkey sacrifices her life to allow Kubo to obtain his shamisen and kill the remaining sister with it. Kubo emerges from hiding and mourns the loss of his mother and father. Using the beetle crest, he flies away to his village to retrieve the helmet, the final armor piece, whice is the village's bell.

At the village, he is able to reclaim the helmet and puts it on. He is greeted by Raiden, the ghost that appeared to Kubo in his dream. Raiden is revealed to be his grandfather, the Moon king. The Moon king tells Kubo that he needs his eye to raid Kubo of all his powers and memories. Kubo refused and the Moon king in anger transforms into a moon beast and fights Kubo. Kubo is defeated and tossed into the cemetery where the Moon king corners him as well as the surviving villagers. Kubo retaliated by taking off the armor and using his shamisen to recruit the spirits of the villagers' decreased, showing that memories are the strongest form of magic and can never be destroyed. The Moon king is defeated and becomes mortal, and in his human form has bo recllection of who or what he was. The villagers make him believe that he is a good man. After the villagers set their lanterns near a lake, Kubo is able to speak with his parents and make peace with them, saying that he is happy, he was able to go on a journey with them. They ten appear beside him in the form of spirits.

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Deadpool

Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool. It is the eighth installment in the X-Men film series, and stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, Gina Carano, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams and Brianna Hildebrand. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson hunts the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Development began in February 2004 with New Line Cinema, but put the film in turnaround in March 2005, with 20th Century Fox buying the rights. In May 2009, after Reynolds portrayed the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox lent the film to writers, and Miller was hired for his directorial debut in April 2011. Enthusiastic acclaim from leaked CGI test footage by Miller in July 2014 led to Fox green lighting the film in September. Additional casting began in early 2015, and principal photography commenced in Vancouver from March to May.

Deadpool premiered in Paris on February 8, 2016, and was released on February 12 in the United States in IMAX, DLP, D-Box and premium large format. The film was a massive blockbuster success, grossing over &782 million worldwide and breaking numerous box office records, including becoming  the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2016, the highest-grossing R-rated film and X-Men film of all time, and received generally positive reviews. Shortly after its success, a sequel was green lit by fox.

Marketing

In July 2015, director Miller and several cast members attended the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con to present the trailer of the film, which received a standing ovation from attendees who requested that it be played again. Graeme McMillan of the Hollywood Reporter opined that Deadpool "looks like the first movies that talks to the fan audience in their own language", and praised the meta humor of the trailer, while Business Insider's Joshua Rivera gave the trailer a positive review for being "failthful to the source material", as well as for its humor and action.

In December 2015, Fox launched a viral marketing campaign titled "The 12 days of Deadpool", which consisted of one website posting new info about the film each day, with the culmination of a new trailer released on Christmas Day. The general marketing campaign for the film has garnered a positive reaction in the media, two particular items noted as effective were a campaingn to feign Deadpool as a Valentine's Day romance film, and a billboard only containing the emoji which jounalists called "dumb, yet hilarious".

On January 19, 2016, two supposed screenings of yet unseen footage in New York and Lost Angeles turned out to be surprise screenings of the entire film. Screen Rant noted that fan reactions to the film were "overwhelmingly positive".

Reynolds promoted the film's DVD release with a guest appearance on the YouTube channel Screen Junkies, which makes "Honest Trailers" of films, costumed and characterized as Deadpool. THe newspaper The Guardian described it as "Deadpool cheerfully pop up to offer wisecrackiing commentary on Honest Trailer's wisecracking commentary...on his own wisecracking commentary in the movie itself". Reynolds commented hat he is a fan of the web series, and that the custom credits at the beginning of the film were taken from a similar section of those videos.

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Brazil vs Germany Rio Olympic 2016 Final

Brazil find redemption, make history at the Maracana

Results
Gold medal match
Brazil 1-1 Germany AET, Brazil win on penalties ( 5-4)

Bronze medal match
Honduras 2-3 Nigeria

No matter what, history was going to be made at he Maracana. Neither Brazil nor Germany had managed to win gold in the Men's Olympic Football Tournament. Brazil had three silver medals and two bronze, while Germany's third-place finish at Seoul 1988 represented their ever showing at the Games.

A gold on home soil against the Germans would never completely heal the wounds of the 7-1 semi-final Germany win in Belo Horizonte two years ago at FIFA World Cup, but the opportunity for Brazil to write a new and historic chapter in thier football history was there for the taking.

Overlooking the historic Maracana in Rio de Janeiro is the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, and it was Brazil's moment for redemption on Saturday evening. The Brazilian fan in the Maracana sent positive vibes the team's way well before kick-off, singing "Today is the ay for happiness", a traditional Rio de Janeiro song and "Get up on your feet if you you've won five would titles" throughout the early stages of the final.

Neymar then gave the nation what they were all waiting for when he scored a superb free-kick about 25 yards out in the 27th minute. As soon as hist shot hit off the crossbar, bounced up and kissed the inside of Germany's top netting, the Maracana was rocking and bouncing with hope of finally capturing the coveted gold medal. Germany captain Max Meyer then shocked the hosts in the 59th minute, becoming the first player to score against Brazil in the entire tournament.

After the gold medal match could not be decided in regular time and extra time, a penalty shoot-out was needed to crown the champions, and it was Neymar who scored the winning gold, ending Brazil's waiting wait for an Olympic gold at the Maracana, the centre of the country's football heart and soul and leaving the supporter singing "the champion is back"

Earlier in the day in Belo Horizonte, Nigeria capped off a successful Rio 2016 campaign by holding off a resilient Honduras side 3-2 thanks to a brace from Sadiq Umar and a goal from Aminu Umar. 'Dream Team VI' completed the country's sweep of Olympic medals in the competition, have won gold in 1996 and silver in 2008.

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