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You could probably make a reasonably good highlights video out of that ceremony. They tried something different and it probably didn't work as well as they'd hoped, but it had its moments. Anyway, bring on the sports.

It's probably because the next Olympics are in the USA, so they do some handover thingies. Snoop Dogg is there as well.

Gojira are playing at the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Premier League clubs have a better financial safety net than any those in any European top flight, but this is still an alarming example that even major clubs elsewhere aren't immune from going under.

Crash Bandicoot: N Sane Trilogy looks to be coming to Game Pass next month, following Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's inclusion this week.

"Ice in Nice" has a good ring to it, as long as you pretend that they aren't pronounced differently.

Self-harming and having overdosed at least once, according to reports. Van der Velde has also said that he was "a teenage still figuring things out" when he did it. It might be that banning him from the Olympics poses too much of a legal headache, but it's a bad look for the games. So often, we hear about how the Olympics are meant to inspire children to try out sports and potentially become the next crop of high-level athletes. Having a competitor who carried out an elaborate plan to harm a child and seemingly showing little remorse is grossly contrary to that message.

It looks as though the actual race management is almost identical to how it was before. The new features are welcome, though, and the game has launched at under £30 too.

He only served one year in prison as well.

Enter Shikari are playing in my town and someone got me a ticket. I don't really like them, but the novelty of seeing a reasonably large act in my neck of the woods is somewhat appealing.

Doesn't almost everyone say something along the lines of "This doesn't represent my normal behaviour" whenever they're caught doing something wrong? I don't want to judge before more details are reported, but it's hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt when they're using that kind of language.

Microsoft is running a competition to win controllers shaped like superheroes' bottoms.

Kunistu-Gami is enjoyable so far. The game is a mixture of hack-and-slash combat and RTS/tower defence, with a bit of base-building thrown in. Someone described it as a remaster of a PS2 game that never existed, which seems accurate to me. I would recommend giving it a go if you have a GamePass subscription.

I'm sure Everton will be fine in the grand scheme of things, but I do wonder if they might have to endure a few years similar to Aston Villa under Randy Lerner before then.

Ray Reardon has died at the age of 91. He was probably the first big star of the colour television era, which kickstarted snooker as a nationally popular game.