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Milan Cortina 2026 unable to find company willing to build sliding centre: The venue intended to host sliding sports at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games is still yet to have a company willing to carry out critical construction work. The Organising Committee had launched a search for tenders to develop the Cortina Sliding Centre, which is due to stage bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton. Milan Cortina 2026 has confirmed that "no offers have been received" following the end of the first part of the tender procedure which began on June 5. Costs for the facility have skyrocketed with the original expected figure of €41.7 million (£36.5 million/$45.3 million) increasing to €85 million (£72.9 million/$92.5 million). A deadline of November 2025 has been set by Società Infrastrutture Milano Cortina 2026 (SIMICO), the Games' body responsible for overseeing venue readiness, for the completion of the venue. More: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1139769/milan-cortina-2026-sliding-centre

France experiencing lowest electricity prices in 9 months

Wow, I completely written off any possibilities of the medal, because come on.. it's pole vault.... Our Achilles heel... Truly a historic moment lol

Sutkus finished 4th

Team Lithuania Mykolas Alekna - Men's Discus Throw (PB/SB– 71.00 m) Andrius Gudžius - Men's Discus Throw (PB – 69.59 m, SB – 67.66 m) Martynas Alekna - Men's Discus Throw (PB/SB – 67.23 m) Ieva Zarankaitė - Women's Discus Throw (PB – 62.08 m, SB – 60.63 m) Liveta Jasiūnaitė - Women's Javelin Throw (PB – 63.98 m, SB – 61.57 m) Edis Matusevičius - Men's Javelin Throw (PB – 89.17 m, SB – 84.22 m) Aina Grikšaitė - Women's Triple Jump (PB/SB – 14.05 m) Dovilė Kilty - Women's Triple Jump (PB – 14.28 m, SB – 14.02 m) Airinė Palšytė - Women's High Jump (PB – 1.98 m, SB – 1.91 m) Gediminas Truskauskas - Men's 200m (PB – 20,48 SB – 20,60) Modesta Justė Morauskaitė - Women's 400m (PB – 50,49 SB – 51,19) Gabija Galvydytė - Women's 800m (PB/SB – 2 min. 00,29) Greta Karinauskaitė - Women's 3000m st. (PB/SB – 9 min. 26,88) Marius Žiūkas - Men's 20km Racewalk (Pb – 1 h 20 min. 31 SB – 1 h 22 min. 37.) Austėja Kavaliauskaitė - Women's 35km Racewalk (PB/SB – 2 h 58 min. 25) Loreta Kančytė - Women's Marathon (PB – 2 h 30 min. 48 SB – 2 h 33 min. 23).

Aaand Lithuania is now up in 9th place on overall medal stands

I'm really doubting the quality of these games considering Lithuania is in top10 I have a feeling none of these medals will mean much...

Kotryna Teterevkova qualified for Paris after winning gold in Summer Universiade!

Second gold medal for !!

Yay, Savickas also achieving OQT in 200m breaststroke!!

Medal table with 3 more events to go: M/W 50m Pistol and mixed tram Trap. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 12 9 6 27 2 4 6 5 15 3 4 3 4 11 4 3 6 6 15 5 3 1 8 12 6 3 0 2 5 7 2 2 1 5 2 2 1 5 9 2 1 3 6 10 2 0 0 2 11 1 4 0 5 12 1 2 0 3 13 1 0 1 2 14 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 17 0 1 0 1

Gold for Lithuania in W2x! Doubt we will win anything tomorrow though..

Happy for Ažukaitė, but next match with Fiamingo don't bring much hope for Lithuanian fencing to be fair Glad to see and making to the top64 as well!

Arrhhhh... Ugnė Vaickelionytė finished 4th in women's 25m pistol standard

After 27 events with 9 more to go, India lost their initial lead and China pretty much dominating the leaderboard: 1 8 8 4 20 2 4 5 3 12 3 2 2 1 5 4 2 1 3 6 5 2 1 1 4 6 2 0 1 3 7 2 0 0 2 8 1 4 5 10 9 1 2 0 3 10 1 1 7 9 11 1 1 0 2 12 1 0 1 2 13 0 1 1 2 14 0 1 0 1

Remigijus Valiulis - Olympic gold medalist in 4 × 400 m relay passed away Source here

Sweden looks like a strong contender, although I'm not a fan of sled sports happening in another country...

1249 shooters from 101 countries registered. Entry list: here

Yes he does

In all fairness, there was much higher expectations from Lithuanian divers. Lisauskas was brilliant last year in Junior WCh where he was jumping in the final. Both divers are still juniors (Lisauskas is barely 15), but with these poor results diving will get a bump down in funding for next year and this might affect the possibility of the divers to continuing in this sport past junior level in Lithuania...

Medal table with 6 more days to go: Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 4 5 3 12 2 4 3 3 10 3 2 0 0 2 4 1 1 2 4 5 1 1 1 3 6 1 1 0 2 7 1 0 1 2 8 0 2 3 5 9 0 1 1 2

Gudžius qualifying for Paris 2024 (also beats Ceh ) in Hungary: Daniel Stahl 68.98 Andrius Gudžius 67.66 Kristjan Čeh 67.60

Representatives from 196 countries visited Paris to see the final plans for infrastructure and commuting. LTOK did released few comments about concerns in regards: no transport planned for athletes, having to use public transit to get to arenas; smallest athletes village capacity in years, potentially majority of coaches and support personnel from all nations will have to live outside of the village...

Top 12 (and quotas for Paris):

Only 8 days to go, do we know which teams are competing?