Deividas Margevičius - Butterfly swimmer, has retired today.
He's the 100m and 200m butterfly national record holder and he qualified twice to the Olympics with the Lithuanian 4x100m Medley relay.
With this, Lithuania no longer has a dedicated butterfly specialist, so full focus will probably be on qualifying a freestyle relay, since no juniors or youth athletes are prioritising butterfly either.
Thats true, but for me it would be better that there might not be dominating biathlete and the podiuk would be "open" for everybody who are in both form at the time.
Kalev Ermits just joined to retiring list
You misinterpreted my point. In women's biathlon, from countries that improved this year was probably only Sweden and Belarus. France and Norway pretty much on the same level, whilst all other teams have been dropping in quality every single year. With Japan, United States, Ukraine retirements, those countries are taking huge hits, Lithuania and Poland falling off hard, Finland hanging on till Mari Eder is going, Canada going down, Estonia is 13th in nation's cup, but they don't really have any good contenders apart from rare performances from Tomingas, Russia has been falling off for years now, Germany as well. Austria is carried by Hauser mostly, Switzerland lacks a leader as well. Korea is deleted just as their Russian athletes decided to quit, Romania and Moldova propped up by their Russian athletes. Less and less countries becoming competitive, I'm seeing a real cc-skiing problem developing in biathlon if nothing is done in the next couple of years to make biathlon more accessible.
Edit: there was a point in time where you would have to fear the Czech Republic, Italian women relays, German women relay used to be nearly unstoppable, every country apart from Norway, Sweden and France are really falling off.
At this rate half of biathletes competing at this season will retire
It's always like this after an Olympic season.
In my opinion, women's biathlon is the weakest right now its ever been, so seeing 20+ women retiring from countries that need athletes, it's going to look rough next cycle.
Wow, I wonder if this has to do with Ieva's ban? Milda didn't want to switch to single sculls? Donata is already 32 so I wouldn't be surprised if she stopped too. She already seemed to have stopped and only came back when Ieva got banned.
Donata was fully ready to continue for an another Olympic cycle, especially since it was only three years this time.
Milda announced her retirement right there on the stage, Donata didn't even know that was going to happen.
Really lost a lot of respect for Milda, I believe Donata is going to try her luck in the single-sculls and after that probably retirement in 2024.
Simona Krupeckaitė has announced that she will retire in UCI Champions League event on November 27th in Panevėžys, Lithuania.
Simona is a five time Olympian (shared record with Virgilijus Alekna and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė), 2 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion, she still holds two World Records and she has countless silver and bronze medals from all major championships, yet only the olympic medal has eluded her.
She is very well known in the cycling-track world and Lithuania probably will never have a cyclist that accomplished as Krupeckaitė was.
Sad to see her go, but as people say, don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened and she has awarded so many wonderful sport memories from my childhood to adulthood. Will always be one of the greats.
Nevermind, she is going to be racing in UCI Champions League and she will retire after the league is finished.
Simona Krupeckaitė has announced that she will retire in UCI Champions League event on November 27th in Panevėžys, Lithuania.
Simona is a five time Olympian (shared record with Virgilijus Alekna and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė), 2 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion, she still holds two World Records and she has countless silver and bronze medals from all major championships, yet only the olympic medal has eluded her.
She is very well known in the cycling-track world and Lithuania probably will never have a cyclist that accomplished as Krupeckaitė was.
Sad to see her go, but as people say, don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened and she has awarded so many wonderful sport memories from my childhood to adulthood. Will always be one of the greats.
I am so blindsided by Peiffer's retirement, it seems so unnecessary this year, right before the Olympics, plus Arnd even won a race this season and medalled in the championships, there's literally so many reasons to stay since he can still fight and add a medal or two before retirement.
Makes you wonder if this has something to do with the environment of the German team that's under fire right now due to lack of results. With Peiffer gone, Erik, Denise, Benedikt in their 30s, Germany might look like a dumpster fire if their juniors don't progress into top athletes in two years.
Oh, seems that I haven't updated that Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė at the young age of 23 has decided to retire, which might have been caused by a super strict training regime from her coach as the main reason.
She was really the next big race-walking star, because in her very short career she already participated in Rio Olympics at the age of 19, won first place in a European Race Walking cup, was an U23 European bronze medalist and placed with 5th in the most recent European Championships. I'd dare say she was a top 5-7 athlete in our team and already had a qualification time for Tokyo as well.
Her less successful twin is still continuing, she was always behind Živilė from the very start, still produced some nice times, but then her results started going backwards, whilst Živilė took a minute off her PB in every race that she started and she would hold the Lithuanian race-walking record if not for Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė, whom finished 4th in that same European Championships a couple of seconds ahead of her.
Well, our athletics have started forming a calendar, so the Lithuanian Championships as well as U20, U18 and Baltic Championships + Baltic U20/U18 are all scheduled to take place in July and August.
Anev threatened to retire so many times in the last 8 years, that i have lost the count.
Because of the post in his facebook "The End"
In an interview, when returning yesterday, he said it was only for ending the biathlon season. And that now, people's thoughts should be for other things and not for sports.
I would take him off this thread for now.
To put this eloquently, biathletes from smaller nations retire 5 times or more, whilst biathletes from bigger nations retire only once
As a Lithuanian, I can't explain how relatable the feeling of losing count of how many times your athlete retires is.
Perhaps Dale becomes very strong during the off-season and Quentin for France, perhaps Jacquelin if he gets a bit more consistent.
Germany is slightly washed up. Peiffer is not going to do anything at his age, Doll and Kuehn are a coinflip, so not going to be overall contenders and it doesn't seem like Schempp is ever going back to his best.
Tarjei won't be able to challenge his brother, he's like Simon was to Martin, just a bit more consistent, but never better than his bro.
Not expecting any miracles from Russia either and Austria is full of old men.
Leitner and Seppala look like the most talented youngsters that are not from the big 4 countries, but they still need 2 years of experience at least to really climb up the ranks.
Perhaps Samuelsson can pick himself back up and Cisar should be debuting next year with the grown-ups, so we'll see what he can do.
Saw some people panic-buying yesterday. They bough a whole lot of breakfast cereal. What good is that? You still have to go out every few days to buy milk!
Perhaps they also bought a cow on a previous errand for this exact purpose?
She was future of swimming and now she is history. Just in 7 years.
Well, Teterevkova is not as talented as Rūta, when she was her age, but she's good. She already took down Meilutytė's 200m. Breaststroke record and she might even get the A Olympic qualifying time in 100m. at 16 years old. (already has the B)
Didn't she failed a doping test last week or something?
Yes, she didn't show up, but there were speculations that she did it on purpose, to give herself an out of the sport, but then she decided to end her career all-together.
Well, it's been brewing for a long time. This time our very own Rūta Meilutytė has announced her retirement.
It's been years of battling depression due to the pressure of the Lithuanian public as well as years of not being able to swim as fast as when she was 15.
And it happened. Daniel Mesotitsch is finally hanging up his rifle.
Seven podiums in all during his career and three victories. First time he won was back in 2001 and last time that he was on the podium was the season of 2013/14.
Three times relay world championships medalist as well as twice relay Olympic medalist.
He turns 43 in May, that is definitely a long and decorated career.
@Bearas@Werloc Could you give a short account of what happened there (has he reacted, how did they discover this, etc)? The English page requires a subscription and Lithuanian is not very much liked by Google Translate apparently
Adding more context, they found Nandrolone, Oxymetholone, Metandienone, Oxandrolone, two types of Testosterone, Xanax, Turabolone, Tribestan and Ethinylestradiol in his possesion
- Butterfly swimmer, has retired today.
Kalev Ermits just joined to retiring list
Célia Aymonier (biathlon) is ending her career too, I wasn't expecting that 
Krasimir Anev (biathlon) shows up in the retired section.
is finally hanging up his rifle.
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Imagine thinking in the 21st century that prayer is the sole reason for having spirit.
Sending prayers never helped anybody opposed to actually sending actual help.
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