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Thank you dcro. There's no coverage of equestrian in Lithuanian media and its really amazing to see the progress of this sport in the country.

01/04/22: In response to the war, Lithuania are the first EU country among Gazprom's supply countries to gain independence from Russian gas supplies, Lithuania no longer orders Russian gas and no longer plans to pay for it. Country been operating without Russian gas import since beginning of the month and completely fulfilling countries' needs via Klaipeda's LNG terminal named INDEPENDENCE, also supplying requirements for Latvia's and Estonia's transition systems. In addition, from 1st of May, Lithuania and Poland will join their gas transmission systems with first pipeline between two countries to connect Baltic states with European grids. tweet from Lithuanian president G. Nauseda: 02/04/22: Latvia and Estonia announced following the same path and immediately stopped any Russian gas imports

World Series has started and worth noting that this season there's also male solo category

It's unfortunate that none of the female cyclists coming forward to express their feelings and opinions. Understandable, considering they would be condemned as homophobes and so on, but on the other hand, we seem not to have an open dialoge about trans representation in sports and it's creating more friction and probably just more difficult and negative atmosphere for those trans athletes themselves..

Women's wrestling even less competitive... Some categories have just 6 wrestlers! Unsure why Lithuania haven't sent their women's A team as well, seems like we didn't even tried...

Barely even 10 wrestlers in some of the freestyle weights at Europeans...

Unsure if mentioned before, but Baltic countries been renaming streets next to Russian embassies aswell. Lithuania: Ukrainian Heroes street Latvia: Independent Ukraine Street https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/lithuania-names-road-leading-to-russian-embassy-ukrainian-heroes-street

Well done to Perez for challenging the decision!

Team Lithuania will consist of 15 athletes, 2 of those competed in Beijing Winter Games last month: BIATHLON (3) Lukrecija Daugirdaitė Viktorija Kapancova Domas Jankauskas FIGURE SKATING (1) Jogailė Aglinskytė SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING (2) Gabija Astrauskaitė Kotryna Sokolovskytė ALPINE SKIING (3) Oskaras Karlavičius Nikolajus Navitskas Gabija Šinkūnaitė CROSS COUNTRY SKIING (4) Eglė Savickaitė Rūta Žemaitytė Kasparas Misiūnas Ernestas Tretjekovas SNOWBOARDING (2) Patricija Ivanovaitė Luke Putys-Gallagher

No Kosovo flag on graphics

Favourites amongst fans: 1st: Basketball 2nd: Football 3rd: Figure Skating 4th: Athletics 5th: Dance Sports 6th: Autosports 7th: Boxing 8th: Tennis 9th: Swimming Most popular sport activity amongst amateurs: 1st: Running/Athletics 2nd: Weightlifting 3rd: Swimming Most popular sport activities by number of professional athletes: 1st: Athletics 2nd: Rowing 3rd: Basketball 4th: Football 5th: Gymnastics 6th: Orienteering 7th: Autosports 8th: Swimming 9th: Chess 10th: Motorbike sports 11th: Boxing 12th: Draughts

United statement from demands for suspending and federations and KHL.

You can find joint statement from Nordic Swimming Federations here

All 9 members of Nordic and Baltic Swimming Group: submitted request to FINA to suspend and from international competitions. The collective statement from the union also indicated that all federations won't compete in any aquatics events in Russia or Belarus, unless peaceful communication established between all countries, suggesting withdrawal from FINA 25m World Champs and FINA Junior World Swimming Champs that Kazan suppose to host. Statement signed by following leaders of their country federations: Pia M. Johansen Simon Renno Rókur í Jákupsstovu Ville Riekkinen Björn Sigurðsson Aivars Platonovs Tomas Kučinskas Cato Bratbakk Pia Zätterström

Drukarov fall on the second run Would have made history with top20 finish...

Fettner finally with the medal

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)