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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

Karol Dombrovski murdered Lithuania with that awful horrendous performance on the skis. We haven't had an athlete in a relay this slow in I don't know how many years. Really had a chance for a top 10 here, but that ski speed, he was not moving at all.

You know that Lithuanian race walking is fucked when there are 5 teams in the Women's Team Championships, no Russia, Portugal, Italy or Spain, but we're still not medaling. Why did Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė have to retire so early

Donata was fully ready to continue for an another Olympic cycle, especially since it was only three years this time. Milda announced her retirement right there on the stage, Donata didn't even know that was going to happen. Really lost a lot of respect for Milda, I believe Donata is going to try her luck in the single-sculls and after that probably retirement in 2024.

The French team weren't the best of friends? Just another lie fed by the Eurosport commentators that always said that no one can beat the team spirit in the French team

Damn, with so many talented Italian youngsters coming through, he might miss the golden age of Italian biathlon. Or perhaps he's just running away from coaching his kids?

Nah, he just needs that extra space for his ego.

46 bib in tomorrow's women's sprint is a 36 y.o. from Taipei. Can't really remember the last time we've had representation in biathlon from there.

I planned to go to Otepaa for the Biathlon World Cup, but the world decided that it was not a good idea Didn't think they'd allow spectators due to Covid, so I didn't plan a trip.

There would be a lot more in Lithuania, but they can't travel through Belarus... We're sending vehicles to pick them up from Poland and Lithuania also sent financial aid to Moldova.

I just hope the Russians run out of steam eventually... Today feels like Russia did a lot of emotional and infrastructural damage, I'm highly worried. The first few days were just like 1938 with Czechoslovakia, I honestly thought that Europe would just watch like they did back then. There's not much news though if the weapon and humanitarian aid that all the countries are sending is safely reaching Ukraine. Anybody know anything?

Hey, I'm here for the post-Olympic sauce. It is quite common that there are a lot of retirements after Olympic years, so I was wondering perhaps anybody has heard anything from their teams? Wikipedia says Weger, Puskarčikova and Dunklee as of now. I think Lithuania could have some possible retirements as well after this tough year.

As much as I would probably like to proceed as planned, I didn't even think about checking Totallympics these past few days and if @Vektor hadn't tagged me, I probably would have only remembered this was going on no earlier than March. I support one month postponement even more, since it gives a better chance for @Illya to not miss out on the contest, due to the ongoing circumstances...

Just got back home from Dublin. I don't know if this increases our chances of winning TISC, but Lithuania is in

Well, these Olympics were somewhat a disaster for the Lithuanian team. At least we saved the four year budget plan for next OG with this relay performance

Another question, why does every single country have to play by the qualification rules, whilst China get exemptions in both World Cup and IBU cup quotas just for being China, and even after not qualifying and getting two quotas for free, they still send four men and don't give a fuck about the athletes that worked their ass off, but were not strong enough to get into the top 10 athletes for a quota.

Tbh, I don't care if Strolia gets 20/20 with the way that he's looking on his skis. Lap 3,4 and 5 was horrendous. I don't think that we're going to get many good results here, because it feels that this course is very unfavourable for our team.

This Leščinskaitė is what could have been if she didn't face various health troubles after her debut season 7 years ago. She is finally slowly getting back on track to where she used to be, which in turn is helping her progress and unlock her potential.

Gabrielė Leščinskaitė used this opportunity of a fair few women not starting to get a PB result of a 19th place. This is her second time in World Cup points, the first time was her first senior season 7 years ago... and it's the best Lithuanian women's result since 2013. Right now, she is the most accurate biathlete in the world, her ski speed is getting better. She was trying to qualify to the Olympics and had some very very good races, but she was very unlucky with where the coaching team decided to start her. I have a suspicion that our team might actually send her to the Olympic Games instead of Kočergina, which would be sad for Kočergina, but Gabrielė is definitely the one in a better form. This race was a breath of fresh air, because she's only the second Lithuanian to get world cup points this season. Karol, Tomas and Natalija are having a very bad one as of now.

Funnily enough, early tendencies are showing that I might end up second for a third year in a row

It's weird though, he is not a slouch on the skis, posted top 20 ski times in many many races this season. Laps 2 through 4 he looked great, absolutely nothing left for the last lap.