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Lithuanian national selection started last Saturday. 6 entrants moved on to the second round. 12 points (jury and people vote combined) went to Ieva Zasimauskaitė

Lithuania qualified three cross-country skiers to the Olympics. It's Modestas Vaičiulis, he's a sprinter, honestly our best chance to not be last The second one is Tautvydas Strolia and you might recognise this name as his brother Vytautas Strolia is a biathlete. The third one is Marija Kaznačenko, a girl that was depressed about her biathlon results and thought that she would never qualify to the Olympics so she took the easy way out to become a cc skier in order to qualify with no competition what so ever.

Sadly, I have only one Lithuanian friend that cares about sport and he used to be a user here (the story how we met is a pretty funny one ) I wouldn't really want to introduce this forum to the scum that comment on sports in our media articles so my hands are pretty much tied at the moment. If I'd ever come across a person that I'd know would enjoy it here, I would definitely recommend this place, alas, I'm very unlucky at meeting sports enthusiasts since I'm working in the music industry and am mostly surrounded by people who wouldn't be able to name a winter sport in less than 5 seconds.

Firstly, I want to talk about the 'regime'. I was reading some cross-country skiing threads and noticed that @heywoodu failed to post in the correct one twice. When I reloaded the page, I saw that all three cross-country threads were on the top and I thought it would be funny to poke fun at that, you know, just for shits & giggles. I made a screenshot and precisely picked an off topic thread for general discussions with the sole purpose to make a joke and now it's moved into suggestions & problems thread. You see where this is going? I was making a joke! I was not commenting on an issue of the forum, it was supposed to be simple fun, but now it's in the problem thread Secondly, in my humble opinion, editing posts of users to fit certain standards makes the user feel stupid. No one should feel like they did something wrong, just because they didn't post the right way. I remember even from old Totallympics how many times my font, the size of the letters and colours were changed for stuff like entry lists or even entering a TISC competition. There was only one blue, only one pink, only one green that could be used and if you tried anything different it was changed to be the same like the rest to have a unifying principle. If you misspelled a word in the topic, you could guarantee that it would be edited, because illiteracy would be too difficult to handle here. I know, it's cool to see everything neat and in order, but it only adds a feeling that you're always safeguarded and watched. Anyways, from my experience of all these years in Totallympics I can say that I developed a fear of opening threads. My last thread that I opened was the TISC that I hosted that had a perfect template made for the first few pages, yet I still felt stress whilst opening it Back in old TT, I remember seeing users use different tables and other stuff that I was always unable to re-create and everything would be edited to be perfect no matter how much I tried to come close to those standards. Anyways, throughout the years, I stopped trying to do anything creative here and resigned to just comment on stuff, because that's the only thing that I can do right here. Final thoughts: a forum should not be alienating its own users. I appreciate your work @Sindo and I appreciate you inviting me here all these years ago. It's not like I'm going to leave, primarily because I would miss all of the emotional ladies of this forum, but I gotta say, that I'm not as active as I used to be, because there's not that many things left to discuss for me. When biathlon season ends and TISC hasn't started yet, pretty much the only posts that I'll be able to make will be me writing about a good Lithuanian result in some thread that no one will care about Anyways, that's my two cents in this whole situation.

Honestly, I'm jealous. We've only had spring and lots of rain.

Good luck guessing where to post @heywoodu

Does this mean that I'll have to find the time to watch cross-country skiing again? Also, I miss the legendary Miri days.

I am honestly very interested to see Sweden in Rupholding and how much these relay performances will boost their individual performance. I suspect we might see a few more Swedes in higher points in the next stage just from this good morale.

It warms my heart when 2nd tier relay teams make it on the podium. Their celebrations just seem so much more genuine and it's beautiful to see.

If only our 19-year olds could win relays

Every single time during the clown fiesta, the standings start looking pretty reasonable at the end, with 6 very tough countries on top.

Sweden's going to be celebrating into the night

That's only because Belarus were not allowed to continue defending their title

well, our day is over

I love biathlon

There is nothing stopping Ireland from having 2 great athletes just like Belgium did

This clown fiesta is spectacular

Our third starter is a 19yo boy that never had a world cup race. In this fog? 16 missed targets is a good possibility

Lithuania in 8th place. If only we could go to the finish line right now

You know, I've always felt that your Lethla and our Rasimovičiūtė were pretty much peaking at the same time, having seasons with similar success and all in all being pretty equal rivals for many years. It's pretty sad to see both of their results going down so drastically

Hm, Demkov is showing some nice improvement in Slovakia compared to anything that he's shown in the past 2 years

Whatever happens, I think a PB is now pretty much a good possibility.

Come on Crnkovic, make @dcro proud

Hm, I'd argue that Lethla is a safer pick for the relay than Gaim. Both Lethla and Gaim lose a lot of time on the snow, but it seems that Lethla is a pretty reliable shot for relays.

Especially knowing that not a single Swedish girl was brought in for Sochi Olympics, it's so amazing for them, because now the door won't be closed.