Bearas

LTOK confirmed its smallest team ever with 14 athletes going to Buenos Aires:
 
Athletics - 3 
Dominykas Čepys - SHOT PUT Matas Makaravičius - DISCUS THROW Dovidas Petkevičius - 110m HURDLES Gymnastics - 1
Eglė Stalininkevičiūtė - ARTISTIC ALL-AROUND Modern Pentathlon - 2
Elžbieta Adomaitytė Aivaras Kazlas Rowing - 2
Kamilė Kralikaitė / Vytautė Urbonaitė - PAIRS Shooting - 1
Greta Rankelytė - 10M AIR PISTOL Swimming - 4
Kotryna Teterkova - 50M, 100M, 200M BREASTSTROKE Agnė Šeleikaitė - 50M, 100M, 200M BREASTSTROKE Alanas Tautkus - 50M, 100M, 200M BACKSTROKE Arijus Pavlidi - 50M, 100M, 200M BACKSTROKE Table Tennis - 1
Medardas Stankevičius

Even though qualified for 2019 European Championships in July 2017 - the rules were changed after that and  had to battle  for qualification. Unfortunately without the main players  were destroyed and our ECH debut won't be happening. 

is out for the first time ever.
 and is out for only the second time in history
5th consecutive qualification to the finals, best out of all qualified countries tonight.
 qualified for the second time ever.
in the final after 4 years break.
and  fails to qualify for the 4th time in the row
 fails to qualify for the 6th time in the row

No realocation in women's Halfpipe and Malta ends 1 spot away from the olympics 

Currently it doesn't seem that anyone wants to give up a spot in women's halfpipe which is a tragedy since first country for rellocation is

So the marathon of confirming the quotas started. Sill a long way to go, but we already have some rejections:
Ski Cross:  rejected one female spot. It should go to Halfpipe:  rejected one male spot. It should go to

Tomas Kaukėnas (Biathlon)

Olympic qualification systems were accepted today, at the last day of General Assembly.
 
There are several rule changes. Most importantly, dressage coefficient will be removed from eventing starting in 2018. Show jumping about to become super influential I fear.... Collective marks in dressage have been removed, except the mark for the Rider.
 
NFs have applied to become FEI members.

Valdas Adamkus - as national record holder of 100m sprint 

 
and as the President of Lithuania (1998-2009)

I agree that top 4-6 athletes should always be in Olympics regardless of nation, but dismiss those "Chinese or Kazakh athletes that nobody cares for"  (like somebody mentioned here before) and it's no longer the Olympics for me. Let's take such an undeveloped sport as Canoeing slalom and remove those asian/african/small-oceanian quotas and you are left just with a smaller part of Europe + US/CAN/AUS. Is this really an event that deserves to be kept in Olympics then? NO! 
 
And if you disagree -  then why just stop with canoeing slalom? Let's remove all of the continental quotas from basketball and let's have 4 teams from USA, 2 from Spain, 2 from Serbia, 2 from Lithuania and 2 from Argentina, because let's be real - who cares if Africa or Asia sends a team to basketball tournament... And let's have 60 out of 64 archers from South Korea, instead on wasting archery quotas on Slovakia or Finland... And my favourite Table tennis - 100% Chinese NOC, because let' be realistic - all top 180 players in China will be way stronger than any other table tennis player around the world.
 
I understand that I'm overreacting here, I'm just not a fan of isolating poor countries from opportunity to participate at the Olympics.

If they are introducing 10 weights for women - why they need to cut it off on 76kg? Do at least  80kg  or 85kg. Those categories every 2kg is just ridiculous and hurting the level of respect for the sport of wrestling.
 

I know, right! I mean you have to respect Susan Nattrass as she achieved so much in her shooting career - but as a commentator she just a bit annoying because she interested more in the colour of glasses that shooters are wearing rather than competition itself.

American Samoa  told me they are scouting a bobsled team for the 2022 or 2026 Games. Just out of interest. (I emailed every federation, will update on the interesting ones).

Hard, but not impossible. Finland did the same in 1939 Eurobasket and scored just 1 point through entire match against Estonia 

EAA European Combined Team Chapionships taking place in Spain. Unfortunately not a lot of nations competing there. Results after 3 Decathlon and 2 Heptathlon events:
 
Division 1:
10,651  10,564  10,452  10,180  10,112 10,058  9,998  9,106 Division 2
 11,415  11,406  11,139 11,125 9,829  9,793

Wow, Gudžius scoring second highest result this year with 68.61 at LLAF Cup in Kaunas. Third best result in Lithuanian history after olympic champions V.Alekna and R. Ubartas

Arrrrhhh... It takes forever.... Please lock Serduchka in the cage and name Portugal the winner already.

Arrrrhhh... It takes forever.... Please lock Serduchka in the cage and name Portugal the winner already.

She is not Kuchina anymore. Few weeks ago she changed ger surname to Lasickienė

The only criteria that is still left after warm-up time - Czech had to be eliminated for 4 refusals while now Czech dude was eliminated for 2 falls and 2-fall-rule is not eligible criteria to change the horse. I don't know now what Lesun's team will try to do, because I'm sure they will try to appeal somehow anyway.

Lithuania relieved that they officially accepted rellocation quota for men's skeet
 
http://www.delfi.lt/sportas/kitos-sporto-sakos/lietuvos-sauliai-gavo-kelialapi-i-rio-de-zaneiro-olimpiada.d?id=71312444

Aleksandr Kazakevič - Men's Greco-Roman wrestling.

And why she chose to represent Romania? I doubt they paid her like Azerbaijan before. She could had just go back to representing Moldova...

List of unqualified countries on the re-distribution of unused places (sorted by descending order of the number of athletes)
Bahrain - 26 Netherlands - 25 Romania - 22 Estonia - 20 Azerbaijan - 19 Uzbekistan - 19 Colombia - 17 Lithuania - 16 Armenia - 13 Morocco - 13 South Africa - 13  Rejected due to the reallocation and continental route policies imposed by SASCOC Latvia - 11 Hong Kong China - 9 Tajikistan - 7 Iceland - 6 Ireland - 6 Philippines - 6 Indonesia - 5 Luxembourg - 5 Albania - 4 Senegal - 2 Uruguay - 2 Costa Rica - 1 Moldova - 1 Trinidad & Tobago - 1 Turkmenistan - 1