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Latvia quaified in figure skating for the first time since 1994.

Ehhh... Why does Lithuania almost always have to select something embarrassing...

So many unexpected medals Anyway, I'm the happiest about the medal that whole Lithuania has been waiting and expecting by Airinė Palšytė This is also Lithuania's first ever gold in Indoors

World Lithuanian Games Teams has been confirmed for multi-sport event that will be held this year in June in Kaunas, Lithuania. 3499 athletes from 29 countries set to compete. Participating countries: Australia Belarus Canada Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uruguay Sports: Alpine skiing (Indoor slope in Druskininkai) Angling Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Bowling Chess Darts Football Golf Ice Hockey (demonstration) Orienteering Power-lifting Shooting Swimming Table tennis Tennis Tourism sport Volleyball

Seriously?

First World Series of this year are happening in Beijing with no surprise of China already taking all the golds.

leading men's long jump qualification Doubt he will have much success in final, but you never know.

FISA congress coming to the end. Biggest drama of course was the proposal fro Tokyo 2020 programme. The results: a) FINA proposal - Replace LM4- with W4- - 94 votes b) AUS, CHN, DEN, SUI (and CAN) proposal - Replace M4- with LW4- - 67 votes Yay, finally less lightweight boats in Olympics. Of course it still will have to be confirmed by IOC. Other new resolutions: Paralympic course upgraded from 1 km to 2 km Gender of coxswain won't matter any more. This means that in Olympics a men coxswain can be in W8+ team or a lady coxswain in M8+ team. Only requirement for coxswain is to weight at least 55 kg.

Well done by Ramanauskas. First gold in Lithuanian history at EYWOF and third medal since 1993.

Incomplete funding for the sports federations in 2017 only from KKSD sources were announced. 65 sports was funded this year, but number might increase after Olympic committee, Olympic centre and main KKSD fund announced their funding numbers this year. Ranking so far (1/4): 1 Basketball 2 Aquatics (Swimming, Synchronized and Diving) 3 Rowing 4 Air Sports 5 Athletics 6 Modern Pentathlon 7 Canoeing 8 Cycling 9 Handball 10 Gymnastics 11 Dance Sports 12 Wrestling 13 Weightlifting 14 Sailing 15 Boxing 16 Orienteering 17 Kyokushin Karate 18 Volleyball 19 Automotive Sports 20 Table Tennis 21 Powerboating 22 Shooting sports 23 Football 24 Ice Hockey 25 Biathlon 26 Rugby 27 Field Hockey 28 Judo 29 Baseball 30 Tennis 31 Draughts 32 Skiing sports 33 Chess 34 Bodybuilding and FItness 35 Motorbike sports 36 Universal fight 37 Sambo 38 Kickboxing 39 Badminton 40 Belt wrestling and pancration 41 Figure Skating 42 Angling 43 Curling 44 Fencing 45 Water Polo 46 Archery 47 Taekwondo 48 Short Track Speed Skating 49 Powerliftinig 50 Muay-Thai 51 Equestrian 52 Compositor Chess 53 Corespondential Chess 54 Arm wrestling 55 Triathlon 56 Wushu 57 Kurash 58 Pool 59 Water Skiing 60 Softball 61 Kendo 62 Bushido 63 Squash 64 Kudo 65 Golf NF Climbing NF Tug of War NF Floorball NF Grapling NF Underwater sports NF Billiard NF -Bobsleigh and Skeleton Notes: NF- No funding by high level achievement programme Olympic sport Paralympic sports

What a wonderful young talent from Lithuania - Simonas Bilis. Bronze in 50m Free and gold in 100m Free

Lithuania Team Size prediction for Winter Olympic Games 2018 PyeongChang Ski Sports Alpine Skiing (2) - Probably just a basic quota of 1 men and 1 women. Cross Country Skiing (2-3) - Women's - basic quota, Men's - Basic quota +maybe additional one. Ski Jumping (0) - Unfortunately this sport is no longer practised in Lithuania Nordic Combined (0) - Unfortunately this sport is no longer practised in Lithuania Freestyle Skiing (0) - Popular among amateurs, but no one is good enough. Snowboarding (0-1) - Might be one quota for women's slopestyle. Biathlon (2-6) - at least one men and one woman, but with a little bit of luck at least one team quota is possible, Skating Sports Speed Skating (0) - Unfortunately this sport is no longer practised in Lithuania Short Track Speed Skating (1-2) - At least one girl, but some promising boys might get in to shape before 2018. Figure Skating (1-5) - 1 in ladies, 1 in ice dance (might be problems with nationality), 1 in pairs (might be problems with nationality), Sleigh Sports Luge (0) - Had a contest to create a national team, but no good efforts yet. Skeleton (0) - Had a contest to create a national team, but no good efforts yet. Bobsleigh (0) - Had a contest to create a national team, but no good efforts yet. Team Sports Curling (0) - Maybe in 2026... Ice Hockey (0) - Too much competition, not enough good players. Total Optimistic Prediction - (19) Total Pessimistic Prediction - (5) Total Realistic Prediction - (8)

Yay... Lithuania just won bronze in 2012 Olympics...

The only good news is that none of the parties agree to form coalition with green peasants. And they are definitely not pro-EU! Except that they want EU money for villages and agriculture.... It is a party that won all of they seas in rural mandates after all. But this is a very concerning elections as party that affiliated with Russian intentions just won elections out of nowhere shouting that they want to support "Christian democracy"... Which clearly is not a path for any country. Anyway, results clearly shows that the majority of younger generation already emigrated from country and only old grandmas and grandpas was left to vote.

EG will always be a joke... It does not seem that it ever will get any respect and get in to same level as Pan American or Asian Games. Hopefully 2019 will be the last edition, otherwise we will be always stuck at Eastern part of Europe to host it.

Gold for Lithuania in EuroTrack Finally, we won 3 golds in 2012 and had only silvers and bronzes since then

Well, interesting that there was some kind of response at all. But judging in boxing is killing this sport faster than ever. By this point I wouldn't mind boxing not showing up after 2020.

4th part is out... Bigger names inclued Rafel Nadal, Mo Farah and Laszlo Cseh

Pitty that our boys did not win, but shame on Slovenia struggling with such a weak team....

It was a discussion to ether remove LM4- or remove M2x.

FISA congress decided to remove LM4- and replace it with W4-. The decision is not finalized yet and there is going to be a second voting in February to accept the changes.

Outside Europe? It is not even popular in Europe except one region...

Archery: Add Mixed Team event. Athletics: Remove one of the walking disciplines for men, add men's and women's cross-country running. Basketball: Maybe add 3x3, but it's also fine without it. Boxing: Ether leave 3 weight class for men and 3 weight class for ladies or remove this sport entirely from the Games. Canoeing: Remove slalom and use quotas to add more sprint events. Cycling: Add individual pursuit races and maybe bring back team time trials instead of individuals. Diving: Expand synchro element with allowing countries to compete if they have 2 divers in individual events + add Mixed Team event. Equestrian: Won't mind this sport going away. Fencing: Remove team events and maybe add one mixed team event. Field hockey: Won't mind this spot going away. Football: Reduce men's quota to use it for other sports. Golf: Extremely TV unfriendly. Ether change the Olympic tournament format or get rid of it entirely. Gymnastics: Add Acrobatic Gymnastics with Mixed Pair event, maybe try to do mixed rhytmic groups. Modern pentathlon: Change the rules with the horses, change it to dressage or even remove equestrian element. Also might add mixed relay. Rowing: More events for ladies Sailing: Add Kitesurfing Shooting: Make it open gender event without diving it to men's and women's, add laser pistol event. Swimming: add mixed gender relays. Synchronised swimming: Remove women's duets, add mixed duets. Table tennis:Remove men's and women's teams, add mixed team event. Weightlifting: Ether leave only few bigger weight classes or remove this sport entirely. Add: Air Sports: Just that it would be possible to say that human competes in all elements Few nicer events like skydiving formations, accuracy paragliding and etc. that is within Olympic rules for no motor events. Baseball: Just to add more versatility Cricket: Just to add more versatility. Although personally I won't like it

+ Robertas Javtokas - Basketball