Congrats: Nigerian Blessing Okagbare breaks African Women's 100m record

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare today smashed the African 100m Women's record! She came from the back and stormed through to win in 10.86s, setting a new African record at the London Olympic Anniversary Games. Up Nigeria! Kudos to Blessing...so far Africa's fastest woman!

Rihanna Breaks Down During Performance

Rihanna gave fans a rare glimpse of her softer side after she broke down in tears during a recent performance in France.  The 25-year-old started blubbing to the crowd after an emotional performance of her hit song Stay, thanking them for their continued support. ‘Lille!’ I love my French fans, I love you all so much,’ she shouted out.
But the Only Girl In The World singer soon became overwhelmed by the crowd’s warm reception and screams of excitement that she could no longer hold in her emotions.

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Messi Breaks Müller’s 40-Yr-Old Record Of 85 Goals In A Calendar Year

The path to history for Messi is paved in goal scoring and at the age of 25, he is already breaking and setting records of his own and he doesn’t look like he is about to slow down yet. Last night, the Barcelona forward again set the record for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86th goal of 2012 thereby surpassing Gerd Mueller’s 40-year old tally of 85 – to set a new benchmark which includes goals for club and country.
To set the record, Messi found the net twice for Barcelona in a 2-1 win over Real Betis on Sunday.

Lionel Messi Breaks Pele’s Record

Barcelona star Lionel Messi has broken former Brazil international Pele’s scoring record of 75 goals during one calendar year.The Brazilian was in second place behind Gerd Muller, who netted 85 times for Bayern Munich and West Germany during just 60 games in 1972.