Olympic Gymnastics: Crystal Leotard Cost for U.S. Team

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  158 words  |  Billy Koelling

August 4, 2016 2:00 PM EDT When Simone Biles and the rest of the American women’s gymnastics squad take the floor at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, they’ll be wearing the most elaborate — and expensive —Team USA leotards the Games have ever seen. Bedazzled with close to 5,000 Swarovski crystals each, the uniforms would retail for an average of $1,200, according to the New York Times. As a point of reference to how rapidly the number of crystals sewn onto the leotards has recently grown, consider that when Gabby Douglas won gold in London in 2012, she was adorned in 1,188 of the gems. [Read More]

Olympics History: What Happened When Hitler Was Host

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  846 words  |  Billy Koelling

The Summer Olympic Games serve as a grand podium for the belief that a nation’s best athletes can bolster its sense of pride and honor for another four years—setting the stage for real-world superheroes who defy the odds and challenge the capabilities of the human body. It’s a tradition the globe is unlikely to kick. But 80 years ago, when the Summer Olympics opened on Aug. 1, 1936, in Berlin, that creed nearly crumbled. [Read More]

Orlando Bloom's ex-wife, Miranda Kerr, weds Snapchat CEO

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  39 words  |  Patria Henriques

Miranda chooses to say 'I love you' by serenading her new husband with Shania Twain's 'Still The One' at the private ceremony.

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Paramore Looks Back Ahead of Their New Album

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2078 words  |  Martina Birk

Paramore’s story is one of perseverance, and you can hear it in their music. Ever since they released their first album back in 2005, most of them still teenagers, their fans have grown up beside them, sticking with them through the ups and downs, the revolving doors of members joining, departing, and rejoining. When the group first formed, it was composed of brothers Josh and Zac Farro, who played guitar and drums, respectively, lead singer Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Jason Bynum. [Read More]

Police release list of qualified candidates, dates for constables training

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  299 words  |  Billy Koelling

Ndukwe advised candidates to visit the recruitment portal on www.policerecruitment.gov.ng to download the list and check their names or alternatively visit the Police State Command Headquarters to view the list. “The command wishes to inform residents of the state, who applied for 2020 Nigeria Police Force 10,000 Police Constables Recruitment and had successfully progressed to the medical screening stage of the exercise that the final list is out. “The final list also contains commencement dates, venue and requirements for the training. [Read More]

Rapper Loses Grandmother | Pulse Nigeria

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  111 words  |  Billy Koelling

After losing his mother at age 8, Fifty depended soley on his grandma for love and support especially also after his father was reportedly never part of his life. Reports claim Beluah single-handedly raised the G-Unit boss in South Jamaica Queens,along side the rapper's other cousins. Back in 2012, 50 told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that his grandmother was the person he loved the most. ADVERTISEMENT [Read More]

Singer Dencia And Writer Kola Boof At War

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  169 words  |  Tandra Barner

January 16, 2014 11:51 AM This is what Dencia said via her Twitter handle: Here are some of them as we will keep updating them as they come. JOIN OUR PULSE COMMUNITY! Get our Top Stories delivered to your inbox Welcome to the Pulse Community! We will now be sending you a daily newsletter on news, entertainment and more. Also join us across all of our other channels - we love to be connected! [Read More]

Sport: Twilight of the Gods

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  513 words  |  Billy Koelling

It was billed as “The Match’ of the Half-Century.” Hungary’s soccer squad, Olympic champions, came to England with a record of 25 international games without a defeat. The British, celebrating the goth anniversary of a game they had exported all over the world, also had quite a record: no invading team had ever won an international match on English soil. The Hungarian squad, dark, lithe and husky, was cordially received. Escorted by a couple of stocky “assistant trainers” who were unmistakably Iron Curtain cops and by Hungary’s Vice Minister for Sport Gustav Sebec. [Read More]

The Best BTS Merchandise We Spotted on Amazon And Beyond

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1284 words  |  Billy Koelling

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. With the release of their newest single “Dynamite,” BTS has continued to climb the global charts – and win over the hearts of fans. [Read More]

The Double Stuf Oreo May Be Missing Some Stuf

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  430 words  |  Patria Henriques

Bill Hogan / MCT / Getty ImagesDouble Stuf Heads or Tails cookies by Oreo. The 18½ minutes missing from Nixon’s White House tapes? Fine, ok. French winemakers putting antifreeze in their product? Not that big a deal. This week the nation is faced with a true scandal, a fiasco at the heart of which lies the fate of our notion of truth and goodness: Double Stuf Oreos do not actually contain twice the stuf as normal Oreos, CNN reports. [Read More]