Bearas

The average age of team in these championships are 17, majority of the team is athletes that participated at the European Youth Olympic Festival last month..

Baltic Women's Cup 2023: 1st: 2nd: 3rd:

I'm fully intend to visit these championships. Shame that the schedule is not out yet.

Very tough and messy fight between and with only 2 points difference

Also although they announced boycott last year

This is just great... what a draw... so now we have to rely on the actual music, rather than neighbours and political votes to qualify for the final... *sarcasm*

First ever skeleton mixed race with reaction time system! That was fun, and Team GB won their first medals in this event with taking gold at the last second!

there goes our medal....

Ice Dancing is starting in just a few moments. So exciting as Reed/Ambrulevičius is amongst the favourites for the medals this year!

Amedeo Bagnis is first Italian single skeleton slider to win a medal at W Champs

Thompson just lost bronze by 0.01

Edgaras Skurdelis - Boxing 2 year disqualification, ending 15 September 2024 https://www.sportas.info/ringas/boksininkas-edgaras-skurdelis-del-dopingo-vartojimo-diskvalifikuotas-dvejiems-metams/

Ladies short programme will start without Lithuanians are so unlucky this season, as number 1 pick Aleksandra Golovkina was heavily injured during practice in Universiade, then number 2 pick Jogailė Aglinskytė got injured too and at the last minute was replaced by number 3 Meda Variakojytė, who just had to withdraw from competition due injury as well

Also Riga is by the Baltic Sea, not boarder with Balarus..

national funds for 2023 is out (this is not including the elements of local authority funding and lottery funding via Olympic Committee). This is the first year with new system applied where each federation were collecting points for performances at WCh/EChs (Elite/Junior/Youth) during the year and it was later on converted into the funds: Aquatics (Swimming/Diving/Artistic) - 2.115 mm €‎ (priority) Basketball - 1.998 mm €‎ (priority) Athletics - 1.556 mm €‎ (priority) Rowing - 1.280 mm €‎ (priority) Canoeing - 1.072 mm €‎ (priority) Modern Pentathlon - 1.003 mm €‎ (priority) Cycling - 685k €‎ (priority) Wrestling - 613k €‎ (priority) Gymnastics - 581k € (priority) Boxing - 529k €‎ (priority) Sailing - 526k €‎ (priority) Ice Hockey - 470k €‎ Football - 435k € Biathlon - 411k €‎ Rugby - 410k €‎ Handball - 326k €‎ Field Hockey - 299k €‎ DanceSports (inc. Breaking) - 278k €‎ Weightlifting - 273k €‎ (priority) - lost margin of funding due doping scandals Kyokushin Karate - 228k €‎ Ski Sports - 219k €‎ ‎Figure Skating - 203k €‎ Curling - 196k €‎ Shooting - 175k €‎ (lost priority status) Baseball - 147k €‎ Volleyball - 144k €‎ Orienteering - 135k €‎ AirSports - 124k €‎ Flying Disk - 119k €‎ (??) AutoSports - 113k € Tennis - 92k € Judo - 90k €‎ (lost priority status) Bodybuilding - 90k €‎ Equestrian - 77k €‎ Archery - 73k €‎ Sport fishing - 73k €‎ Table Tennis - 72k €‎ Water Polo - 71k €‎ Triathlon - 69k €‎ Checkers/Draughts - 65k €‎ Taekwondo - 52k €‎ (lost priority status) Badminton - 48k €‎ Short Track Speed Skating - 44k €‎ Bowling - 41k €‎ Climbing - 38k €‎ Bike Sports - 35k €‎ Fencing - 28k €‎ Chess - 28k €‎ Tug of War - 26k €‎ Water Jets - 26k €‎ Composition Chess - 26k € Golf - 22k €‎ Sambo - 21k €‎ Powerlifting - 20k €‎ Kickboxing - 18k €‎ Water motorsports - 13k €‎ MuayThai - 11k €‎ Water Skiing - 9.3k €‎ Karate - 8.0k €‎ Pool - 7.6k €‎ Traditional Wrestling - 4.4k €‎ Correspondance chess - 4.1k €‎ Non sponsored Olympic sports: Biathlon & Skeleton (inactive federation), Luge (inactive federation), Surfing (low popularity). Federations that lost funding: Arm Wrestling, Softball & Billiard

What a historic medal for in alpine skiing!

4th place for

Ouch, some really disappointing mistakes by Kizala/Ramanauskaitė

Very engaging audience Although I still don't get it why during Euro Skating Champs they play Shakira's Waka Waka This time for Africa... represented only by newbies who all making their senior debut in Gdansk, so not expecting any qualifications

sending 18 athletes: Biathlon (4): Danielius Buchovskis, Emilija Mincevič, Juozas Augustinavičius, Mikas Vildžiūnas Cross-Country Skiing (4): Emilija Bučytė, Gabija Bučytė, Matas Gražys, Aironas Puras Freestyle Skiing (4): Dovydas Vaivada, Medeinė Povilavičiūtė, Pijus Baniulis, Rusnė Rudzianskaitė Alpine Skiing (2): Liepa Karlonaitė, Povilas Lenkutis Figure Skating (2): Danielius Korabelnikas, Daria Afinogenova Short Track Speed Skating (2): Ernestas Čechas, Valentina Levickytė

2023 The Ocean Race started in Alicante today with in-port race. This year it's very important for Lithuania, as it's a first time Lithuanian team is competing in the race. Lithuania represented by Ambersail 2 crew with the skipper Rokas Milevičius (2012 Olympics) who previously finished 2nd in Ocean Race with Dutch team back in 2015.

It's cool to see World Cup in Estonia, but there's literally no spectators in the stadium!

Rebeka Koha (2 bronze medals in WCh) returned as Rebeka Salsabil Ibrahima by winning Qatar Cup and West Asian Championships. Full sotry: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132081/rebeka-back

Multiple Olympic medallist Aliaksandra Herasimenia (swimming) was sentenced for 12 years in prison for actions against Belarus national security (which is in a nut shell - speaking badly about Mr. Lukashenko...) Herasimenia was not present during the trial as since 2020 left Belarus and is very active in neighbouring countries of Lithuania and Poland.

Lithuanian Sports awards took place today. The winners are: Best paralympic team: Men's wheelchair basketball national team Best olympic sport team: Mindaugas Maldonis and Andrej Olijnik (Canoeing) Best paralympic coach: Algis Mečkovskis (Para-Judo) Best olympic sport coach: Mantas Jusis (Athletics - Discus Throw) Best paralympic breakthrough: Gabrielė Čepavičiūtė (Swimming) Best olympic sport breakthrough: Gabrielė Stonkutė (Boxing) Best male paralympic athlete: Edgaras Matakas (Swimming) Best male olympic sport ahtlete: Mykolas Alekna (Athletics - Discus Throw) Best female paralympic athlete: Raimeda Bučinskytė (Shooting) Best female olympic sport athlete: Rūta Meilutytė (Swimming) Source: https://www.delfi.lt/sportas/kitos-sporto-sakos/lietuvos-sporto-apdovanojimai-metu-sportininkai-mykolas-alekna-ir-ruta-meilutyte.d?id=92096959