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Honestly, I wasn't entirely sure if I'd be writing this message in this season, but we just won our first World Cup points in the women's field. Thanks for this nice surprise Natalija Kočergina!

Woah, that sounded pretty unbelievable, but all those three times that she got into points she did have at least one miss. That's a very long time of not shooting clear

Perhaps in relays. Not entirely sure if that happened during a World Cup race.

Gontier and Preuss still keeping this alive.

Will this be enough for the first Lithuanian women points of the season though?

And Tiril Eckhoff is back!

Woah Woah Woah! Natalija Kočergina in 19th after the second shoot.

Dorin-Habert is back

I wanted to make a joke with shooting at cross-country skiing, but I didn't think of anything witty enough, so you're winning with the Nordic Combined

You actually did not miss anything yet I think everything before the grand final is pre-filmed and only the voting is live. The show will be broadcasted this Saturday and you can watch it on lrt.lt (19:00 UK time). Aaaaand, if you don't want to torture yourself with our selection, the videos will be uploaded on Youtube probably on Sunday or Monday.

Well, yeah Although I can't deny, that it's fairly weird how Germany kept the exact same team throughout the entire season. (when Dahlmeier became healthy)

Also, why do these become longer with every race???

The final pre-Olympic World Cup stage, where athletes can test themselves for the last time, a place where some Olympic teams will be finally decided and a place that some athletes decided to skip for the Olympic preparations. Ladies & Gentlemen, I bring you the hottest start list news for the women's sprint: Hauser and Innerhofer are the only two Austrians that remain in the team, as Zdouc and Hoffmanm were replaced by Rieder and Hartweger. Pisareva replaces Yurkevich for Belarus and Popova replaces Kadeva for Bulgaria. Seems that Canada's A Team has already returned to Canmore for the Olympic preparations, leaving Beaudry, Bankes and Moser in the start list. Zhang is replaced by Tang for China and Davidova is brought back in for the Czech Republic, replacing Johanidesova. Beilmann is brought in for Estonia after a brilliant IBU cup race as Grete Gaim says goodbye to the Olympic bid and prepares for the European Championships. Last attempt for Padial-Hernandez from Spain to score enough IBU points for the Olympics. Team Finland is small, but tough, because Mari Laukkanen joins Kaisa Makarainen and Laura Toivanen after a short absence from world cup racing. Dorin-Habert is back in the French team and Justine Braisaz is starting tomorrow after a disappointing mass start race after sickness. Another change is that sadly, Chloe Chevalier is off the team and SImon is brought in. Yet for another world cup, team Germany remains absolutely the same. Meaning that the only person that ever got a chance besides these six ladies was Karolin Horchler, whilst Dahlmeier was sick. Szoecs for Hungary is attempting to do the same thing as Hernandez. Alexia Runggaldier is finally back after a very long sickness, but that sadly means that there'll be no Karin Oberhofer Tanaka is in for Japan, replacing Mitsuhashi and Korea is bringing in their best tomorrow with Frolina, Avvakumova and Mun. As for Lithuania, Diana Rasimovičiūtė is supposedly going on a training camp for the Olympics and which is why Gabrielė Leščinskaitė is getting a start tomorrow. Hilde Fenne is back in the team for Norway, Tandrevold perhaps taking a rest/wanting to skip Antholz. Drastic changes for Team Poland as their A team is probably on a training camp, they're sending Zuk, Mitoraj, Piton and Maka to represent tomorrow. Yurlova is back for Russia, replacing Slivko and Irene Cadurisch is back after some great performances in IBU cup, replacing Aita Gasparin. Sweden is also one of the teams that sent their B team and tomorrow's starters are: Nilsson, Alifiravets, Skottheim, Andersson and Lindqvist. Vita Semerenko is back for Ukraine and joined by Abramova, as Zhurakov steps back and Pidrushina is missing after the DNF in Rupholding. Finally, USA is starting with four women and it's Reid and Dreissigacker joining Dunklee and Egan.

I'm heartbroken. Throughout all of my work, I've noticed about Dolores just a few minutes ago. I grew up with their music, this actually hits me very hard...

Sadly, only phones from Lithuania. So even our massive diaspora never gets to participate in choosing the artist.

Oh yeah, I'll definitely need it on Saturday, because I still need a few points from the people's vote if I want to pass to the next round.

Hey peeps! An update from me. So, today was the filming and on Saturday it will be on air and anyone that is interested can spectate even from abroad. I'm glad to say that everything went fairly well and at the moment I'm 4th from the jury votes (6 qualify to the next round). Even though I'm not entirely happy with how things turned out, as I still felt a bit sick, other people thought that I sang well, even though I didn't feel like I did

Why does Liechtenstein get special treatment???

+ all the rankings posts for biathlon/cross-country skiing after every single stage that is now done in a single 1st page post.

and now I'm wondering if we're statistically on track with the posts of the old forum, but I guess a good 50% of them is from the times when we used to post results in the threads?

Lithuania with three victories has advanced from their group to the next round of the qualifications to World Championships 2019 I wonder if we have a chance to get back to the elite this time.

I think it was mostly implemented as a tool/option for the best competitors to miss one stage of the World Cup or not to lose out too much if they're to get sick.

Let's not talk about that If I was the grand architect of the Olympics this year, I would give her 4 medals, because she has been an amazing and inspirational athlete during her long career and Finland will never be the same without her. I'm also very hopeful she manages to win the overall, but you never know which Makarainen you'll get in Kontiolahti, plus she's still behind Kuzmina if we'd take into account erasing the points from two worst races. (Kuzmina would lose 5, Makarainen would lose a lot and this rule has really messed with her chances before)

YES, MAKARAINEN!!!!!!!!!! You're Amazing!!!

So much for 5 Germans in the top 11 Really hoped that it would finally be Schempp's day, but he has his favourite Antholz to look forward to now.