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You know, what's really interesting for me is that a Nordic country like Sweden pulled in so little athletes in their championship. 14 men and 19 women in the mass starts, I'd imagine the numbers would be closer to Norwegian numbers.

So yeah... Mykolas Alekna threw the discus at 66.70m. He smashed the Lithuanian U20 and U23 records, as well as qualifying for the European and World Championships.

If anybody finds this interesting, here are the results for the Lithuanian biathlon championships, individual race. Everybody is tired and nobody is really trying https://biathlonltu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LBC-2022-03-26-Individualios-rungties-rezultatai-1.pdf

That whole situation was such a mess. The figure skating federation did absolutely everything that they could to get Reed the Lithuanian citizenship like four times, appealed every negative decision and tried again. Reed even spoke in Lithuanian during our biggest music awards and everybody thought that since the president was a populist and ironically, very unpopular, because he tried to please everyone, thus pleasing no one, that he would finally cave in and allow the citizenship to go through. Well, he didn't, so Ramanauskaitė and Kizala got a two week notice that they're going to the Olympic Games (they thought Reed would also get citizenship). On top of that, Ramanauskaitė is the third partner change for Kizala and they haven't even been skating together for a year, so yes, I assume that there's room for improvement

Nice, we can send two pairs next year, will be the biggest Lithuanian participation ever, just need both to stay healthy and uninjured.

She is in an IBU league of her own, a legend of her time We can only hope to understand her one day

It's crazy what's going on right now in the women's free skate. An amazing example of what contests can do to people and these girls know that this might be the only chance for a world title, because figure skating will do everything to get Russia back on board as soon as the war is over. Everybody is chasing a life time achievement and everybody is way more nervous than usual.

So, is Dorothea Wierer actually staying after threatening retirement for a thousand times?

We still suck at everything, what else is new

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She's probably mentally devastated, because her best friend in the team is thinking about retiring.

I didn't forget Krystyna, but as I've said, I followed only the info that was on the wiki, so I couldn't recall which year was her last.

For funsies I thought since a lot of retirements just go over our heads, I'll see how many Junior World Medalists since 2012 are still active: 2012 Chardine Sloof - NED/SWE Monika Hojnisz-Starega - POL Elena Badanina - RUS Kurtis Wenzel - CAN Marius Hol - NOR Alexandr Loginov - RUS Elena Ankudinova - RUS Anais Chevalier-Bouchet - FRA Margarita Vasileva - RUS Maksim Tsvetkov - RUS Florent Claude - FRA Simon Desthieux - FRA Olga Iakushova - RUS Iryna Leshchanka - BLR Vetle Christiansen - NOR 2013 (lots of repeat winners and winners from 2012) Laura Dahlmeier - GER Olga Podchufarova - RUS Lisa Theresa Hauser - AUT Johannes Thingnes Boe - NOR Franziska Preuss - GER Dino Butkovic - CRO Clement Dumont - FRA 2014 Evgeniia Burtasova - RUS Galina Vishnevskaya - KAZ Annika Knoll - GER Alexander Povarnytsin - RUS Tore Leren - NOR Eduard Latypov - RUS Luise Kummer - GER Sarah Beaudry - CAN Jarle Gjoerven - NOR Uliana Nigmatullina - RUS Aristide Begue - FRA Dany Chavoutier - FRA 2015 Yuliia Zhurakov - UKR Kinga Zbylut - POL Aleksandr Dediukhin - RUS Vemund Gurigard - NOR Lena Arnaud - FRA Chloe Chevalier - FRA Fabien Claude - FRA Sean Doherty - USA Marie Heinrich - GER 2016 Susanna Kurzthaler - AUT Anastasiya Merkushina - UKR Julia Schwaiger - AUT Felix Leitner - AUT Andrea Baretto - ITA Hanna Oeberg - SWE Lena Haecki - SUI Anna Magnusson - SWE David Zobel - GER Nikita Pornshev - RUS 2017 Sindre Pettersen - NOR Nikita Lobastov - RUS Megan Bankes - CAN Anna Weidel - GER Igor Malinovskii - RUS Kirill Streltsov - RUS Roman Yeremin - KAZ Michela Carrara - ITA Ingrid Tandrevold - NOR Myrtille Begue - FRA Anton Smolski - BLR Valeriia Vasnetcova - RUS 2018-2021 (nearly all of them still active) Franziska Pfnuer - GER Max Barchewitz - GER Anastasiia Khaliullina - RUS Synne Owren - NOR

Sometimes I have this crazy urge to waste my time, hopefully someone finds this interesting, the list on retirements of biathletes from the past 9 competitive seasons (3 post-Olympic ones) that Wikipedia wrote about: mistakes are inevitable, only highlighted some biathletes from said country.

The Summer biathlon championships are going to be wild

So I know that you can't take anything for granted in the wiki retirement thread, because they always make mistakes (for example: Kočergina has not announced anything about retiring, but she's on the list)... but seriously, did Japan completely take away the funding from biathlon, because their entire team seems to be retiring??

You misinterpreted my point. In women's biathlon, from countries that improved this year was probably only Sweden and Belarus. France and Norway pretty much on the same level, whilst all other teams have been dropping in quality every single year. With Japan, United States, Ukraine retirements, those countries are taking huge hits, Lithuania and Poland falling off hard, Finland hanging on till Mari Eder is going, Canada going down, Estonia is 13th in nation's cup, but they don't really have any good contenders apart from rare performances from Tomingas, Russia has been falling off for years now, Germany as well. Austria is carried by Hauser mostly, Switzerland lacks a leader as well. Korea is deleted just as their Russian athletes decided to quit, Romania and Moldova propped up by their Russian athletes. Less and less countries becoming competitive, I'm seeing a real cc-skiing problem developing in biathlon if nothing is done in the next couple of years to make biathlon more accessible. Edit: there was a point in time where you would have to fear the Czech Republic, Italian women relays, German women relay used to be nearly unstoppable, every country apart from Norway, Sweden and France are really falling off.

It's always like this after an Olympic season. In my opinion, women's biathlon is the weakest right now its ever been, so seeing 20+ women retiring from countries that need athletes, it's going to look rough next cycle.

Another superb performance from Vytautas Strolia, with two 20s clear shoots in the stand, up to 10th place at the finish line. This is the highest quality of Lithuanian biathlon and I can only hope that Vytautas can surpass this amazing season that he had until his retirement, hopefully with at least one podium in the next four year cycle. Lastly, ERIK LESSER, what a performance, whoah. He survived the German ibu cup yoyo strategy to comeback as a regular in the German team and end the season on an iconic win, with two of the best biathletes not able to chase him down. Absolutely amazing! Mass starts should be crazy, but I wonder if there's still anyone out there that has the energy for them, most of the athletes that have been doing great throughout the entire season look so done

Yeahh, today we probably saw the final year of Lithuanian women biathlon. It was very painful watching this downfall, painful to see 4-5 youth generations of biathletes quitting the sport when only Leščinskaitė remained. Diana Rasimovičiūtė pretty much single-handedly gave biathlon in Lithuania life again and as she left, the women's team fell apart without her. At least, Diana's achievements and what she went through was not in vain, since the men's team has been doing fairly well and there is back-up nearly ready for any of those that would decide to retire early. On the women's side though, there is nobody that can replace Natalija or Gabrielė, we're down to 1 world cup start position and with the way that IBU system works, it is impossible to ever climb back unless we ever field a relay again and team nr. 25 sucks absolute ass. It was a good run while it lasted, Gabrielė making awful jokes about retirement the entire year now. I still firmly believe that if Diana had a team around her and wasn't alone all those years, she definitely would've climbed on the podium, but it is what it is. Seeing that there really aren't any promising athletes born in 2009 and later, it's safe to say to the Lithuanian women's team - see you in 2030 perhaps?

Home advantage worked out for Vytautas Strolia, with 0+0, looking like another possible top 10 performance

Happy for Stina Nilsson, sad for Hanna Oeberg :/ Even with an awful performance, Natalija Kočergina is somehow in the top 60. Don't really know how she did it, she was the slowest she's been all season.

And another three Lithuanian age group records fell today: Adas Dambrauskas - 200m - 22.04 - U17 and U18 records Danielius Vasiliauskas - 200m. - 22.61 - U16 record

Indoor U18 and U20 Baltic Team Championships are ongoing, Lithuanians broke six age group records today: Adas Dambrauskas - 60m - 6.82 - U17 record Danielius Vasiliauskas - 60m - 6.99 - U16 record Lukas Sutkus - 400m - 49.29 - U18 record Nikodemas Laurynas - Pole Vault - 4.75 - U18 record, U18 & U19 indoor records Also, Lithuanians won all four sprints, might be a rebirth of Lithuanian sprinters, which has been very much missed since Sakalauskas, Grinčikaitė and Tamošaitytė era. The second day is on Saturday with 200m, 800m, 3000m, high jump, triple jump and a mixed 400m relay.

If you ever have the time, I am always interested in hearing the beef between athlete national teams