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Lithuania delegated Paulina Ramanauskaitė and Deividas Kizala (both Figure Skating)

Giedrius Titenis, 4 times Olympic swimmer, Bronze medallist at World championships.

First portion of 2022 sport funding for Lithuanian sport announced as Ministry of Education and Culture announced numbers of sports funding via central government. Sport funding in Lithuania have multiple layers from both central and regional government bodies, therefore this is just the first portion of funding. Interestingly enough, it was announced that all official funding for Judo were cut down to 0, due inadequate use of previous funding and arguments within Lithuanian Judo Federation. There were multiple articles surrounding disagreements within Judo community in Lithuania as multiple breakaway Judo federations started to operate in the country. Unfortunately this is only going to hurt the development of this sport even more... Also no funding for Surfing, Skateboarding and inactive Luge, Skeleton and Bobsleigh federations. No funding for squash and floorball as national federations are not a part of Doping testing system. Wushu removed from funding list, might something to do with countries love for China... Loads of weird non-Olympic sports prioritised over Olympic federations. Basketball loosing a lot of funding after failing to qualify for Tokyo, although further stages might increase the funding + all team sports will have additional fund distributed for team sport development (I know, funding system in Lithuania is very convoluted..) Funding per federation - Stage 1 (more funding to be approved via different sources). All sums are in €: Aquatics (Swimming, Artistic and Diving) = 927k Athletics = 779k Rowing = 719k Canoeing = 547k Basketball = 516k Football = 372k Gymnastics = 331k Modern pentathlon = 303k Cycling = 291k Wrestling = 284k Biathlon = 235k Boxing = 225k Air Sports = 223k (Non-Olympic) Ice Hockey = 222k Orienteering = 209k (Non-Olympic) Kyokushin Karate = 204k (Non-Olympic) ... wtf... Handball = 176k Rugby = 164k Field Hockey = 149k Dance Sport (including Breaking) = 146k (Future Olympic) Sailing = 124k Bodybuilding = 116k (Non-Olympic) Shooting = 100k Weightlifting = 97k Skiing (Cross-Country, Alpine, Freestyle, Snowboarding) = 93k Curling = 89k Motor sport = 88k (Non-Olympic) Volleyball = 66k Taekwondo = 65k Baseball = 64k (Former Olympic) Sport Fishing = 60k (Non-Olympic) Draughts = 59k (Non-Olympic) Figure skating = 56k Water Polo = 55k Bike motor sports = 51k (Non-Olympic) Table Tennis = 50k Bowling = 46k (Non-Olympic) Tennis = 45k Badminton = 40k Chess = 37k (Non-Olympic) Arm Wrestling = 37k (Non-Olympic) Archery = 34k Triathlon = 28k Powerlifting = 26k (Non-Olympic) Sambo = 25k (Non-Olympic) Flying Disk = 22k (Non-Olympic) Sport Climbing = 20k Tug of War = 20k (Non-Olympic) Water Bike Sports = 19k (Non-Olympic) Speed Skating/Short Track = 19k Composition Chess = 14k (Non-Olympic) Kickboxing = 13k (Non-Olympic) Softball = 13k (Former Olympic) Pool = 12k (Non-Olympic) Fencing = 11k Equestrian = 10k Correspondence Chess = 9k (Non-Olympic) Muay Thai = 8k (Non-Olympic) Karate = 7k (Former Olympic) Water motorsports = 5k (Non-Olympic) Water Skiing and Wakeboarding = 5k (Non-Olympic) Golf = 5k Billiard = 1k (Non-Olympic)

Reed's citizenship request rejected for the third time.

Team Lithuania confirmed: 4 Men: Tomas Kaukėnas, Vytautas Strolia, Linas Banys, Karol Dombrovski 1 Woman: Gabrielė Leščinskaitė

Scratch that... Reed submitted her application to get Lithuanian citizenship for the third time.... Some public figures, including legendary Lithuanian ice dancing due Povilas Vanagas and Margarita Drobiazko making public appearances to support Reed's application based on top10 performance in Europeans... Outcome will be made public on Monday. Unfortunately it's highly likely that Reed's application will be rejected by president Nausėda for the third time.

Lithuania: 13 Alpine Skiing: 2 Biathlon: 5 Cross-Country Skiing: 4 Figure Skating: 2

Allison Reed's final application for Lithuanian citizenship just got officially declined. Saulius Ambrulevičiux/Allison Reed will be replaced by Paulina Ramanauskaitė and Deividas Kizala.

Lithuanian sports awards: Male athlete of the Year: Mindaugas Griškonis (Rowing) Female athlete of the Year: Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadnieprovskienė (Modern Pentathlon) Team of the Year: Women's Rowing 2x Sculls Team (Donata Karalienė ir Milda Valčiukaitė) Coach of the Year: Andrejus Zadneprovskis (Modern Pentathlon) Breakthrough of the Year: National Men's Rugby 7ens Team Para-sport Team of the Year: National Men's Goalball Team Para-sport Coach of the Year: Ramūnas Leonas (Swimming) Para-sport Breakthrough of the Year: Osvaldas Bareikis (Judo) Para-sport Female athlete of the Year: Oksana Dobravolskaja (Athletics) Para-sport Male athlete of the Year: Edgaras Matakas (Swimming)

Milda Valčiukaitė (rowing) announced about her retirement during Lithuanian Sports Awards. Milda won bronze in Rio 2016 Olympics, 2013 and 2018 World champion and 2013 European champion

Allison Reed submitted her final application for Lithuanian citizenship earlier this week. It's very unlikely to get approved by Lithuanian president.

Let's not get too dramatic... China been taking revenge on Lithuania since 2008 Olympics and Lithuanian's stand to support Tibet. Loud threats and accusations, but no real damage, as this time is Lithuania supporting Taiwain.

Great to see some international Track events are back in Panevėžys!

Great news! I still hope for Amrbulevičius/Reed pair to sort out their citizenship as they been showing great form this season, but Ramansuakaitė/Kižala would make a history as first pair of Lithuanian-born skaters in Olympics.

Participating countries: 180 gymnasts from 47 countries Group competition - 19 countries Individual competition - 47 countries 9 gymnasts (6 group + 3 individual): 8 gymnasts (5 group + 3 individual): 8 gymnasts (6 group + 2 individual): 7 gymnasts (6 groups + 1 individual): 7 gymnasts (5 groups + 2 individual): 6 gymnasts (5 group + 1 individual): 3 individual gymnasts: 2 individual gymnasts: 1 individual gymnast: By continent: Europe = 116 gymnasts from 29 countries = 64.4 % Asia = 36 gymnasts from 7 countries = 20% Pan America = 25 gymnasts from 8 countries = 13.9% Africa = 2 gymnasts from 2 countries = 1.1 % Oceania = 1 gymnasts from 1 country = 0.6 %

What is the required score in free skate?

312 gymnasts from 56 countries to participate: 10 gymnasts (6 male + 4 female): 9 gymnasts (6 male + 3 female): 9 gymnasts (5 male + 4 female): 8 gymnasts (6 male + 2 female): 8 gymnasts (5 male + 3 female): 8 gymnasts (4 male + 4 female): 7 gymnasts (4 male + 3 female): 6 gymnasts (6 male + 0 female): 6 gymnasts (5 male + 1 female): 6 gymnasts (4 male + 2 female): 6 gymnasts (3 male + 3 female): 5 gymnasts (5 male + 0 female): 5 gymnasts (4 male + 1 female): 4 gymnasts (3 male + 1 female): 4 gymnasts (2 male + 2 female): 4 gymnasts (1 male + 3 female): 3 gymnasts (3 male + 0 female): 3 gymnasts (1 male + 2 female): 3 gymnasts (0 male + 3 female): 2 gymnasts (2 male + 0 female): 2 gymnasts (1 male + 1 female): 1 gymnast (male): 1 gymnast (female): Participants per continent: 61% = 190 from 36 countries = Europe 21% = 65 from 12 countries = Asia 15% = 47 from 7 countries = Pan Americas 3% = 10 from 1 country = Africa 0 = Oceania

Plenty of girls, but no one to match Krupeckaitė and Marozaitė in the same team. During Nationals and Baltics Lithuania had several 3-women teams going for the title, but results failed to match federation's qualification standards. Just like our federation refused to send men's team sprint team, despite sending two male sprinters to the championships.

Yes, this format kicked in during the last Europeans in 2020. We had 4 teams last time, so slow progress. Tokyo Olympics officially was the last competition with 2 riders per women's team.

231 weightlifters from 52 competing (including ): 20 athletes from: 17 athletes from: 15 athletes from: 14 athletes from: 12 athletes from: 10 athletes from: 9 athletes from: 7 athletes from: 6 athletes from: 5 athletes from: 4 athletes from: 3 athletes from: 2 athletes from: 1 athlete from: Per continents: 43% of participants (98 athletes from 23 counties) = Europe 32% of participants (75 athletes from 17 countries) = Asia 20% of participants (47 athletes from 8 countries) = Pan Americas 5% of participants (11 athletes from 4 countries) = Africa 0 = Oceania

Rower Saulius Ritter announced about his retirement from sport. He won silver in 2016 Olympics, six medals in European championships and two silver in World Championships, won two golds in Universiade. https://www.ltok.lt/olimpinis-vicecempionas-s-ritter-baigia-karjera-noriu-igyvendinti-naujus-uzsibreztus-tikslus/

Lithuanian president G. Nausėda rejected citizenship request from Alison Reed to represent Lithuania at the 2022 Olympics. It's been confirmed that Lithuanian Figure Skating Federation will apply for the citizenship for the last time next months and will attempt to prepare a new duet of Paulina Ramanauskaitė and Deividas Kizala to replace Ambrulevičius/Reed in Beijing

Lithuanian Olympic Committee confirmed the shortlist of athletes who are sponsored for preparation to qualify for 2024 Olympics + target results. 155 athletes were shortlisted. Athletes that have medals amongst their targets: Eimantas Stanionis, Boxing, Men's 69kg = 1st-5th place Tadas Tamašauskas, Boxing, Men's 91kg = 3rd-9th place Iveta Lešinskytė or Gabrielė Stonkutė, Boxing, Women's 75kg = 3rd-9th place Dominyka Banevič, Breaking, Women's = 1st-6th place Viktorija Andrulytė, Sailing, Women's Laser Radial = 1st-8th place Mantas Knystautas, Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 130kg = 1st-8th place Danutė Domikaitytė, Wrestling, Women's 68kg = 3rd-12th place Kamilė Gaučaitė, Wrestling, Women's 76kg = 3rd-12th place Milda Valčiukaitė and Donata Karalienė, Rowing, Women's Double Sculls = 3rd-8th place Men's 3x3 Basketball Team = 1st-3rd place Women's 3x3 Basketball Team = 1st-8th place Andrius Gudžius, Athletics, Men's Discus = 1st-8th place Liveta Jasiūnaitė, Athletics, Women's Javelin = 3rd-8th place Edis Matusevičius, Athletics, Men's Javelin = 3rd-10th place Mykolas Alekna, Athletics, Men's Discus = 3rd-8th place Danas Rapšys, Swimming, Men's = 3rd-8th place Žygimantas Stanulis, Weightlifting, Men's = 3rd-8th place Gintarė Bražaitė, Weightlifting, Women's = 3rd-8th place Justinas Kinderis, Modern Pentathlon, Men's = 1st-16th place Ieva Serapinaitė or Gintarė Venčkauskaitė or Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė, Modern Pentathlon, Women's = 1st-12th places

3 golds and 1 bronze for Amira and good championships for Egypt overall

Not sure how reliable those evidence are.... Nobody could convince me than UK's road system could be ranked as high as it is...