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I think it should be pretty big news in terms of swimming, but Lithuania's very own Rūta Meilutytė made an official comeback in the Lithuanian short-course swimming championships. She already won gold in women's 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:05.23 and that is already faster than she swam in 2018 when she quit.

First world cup points for Poland and they come from the men

This one aged well Vytautas Strolia is going to finish in the highest position of Lithuanian male biathlon ever. It's going to be 11th place and this time it's a freakin' +0.1 off of a historical top 10 performance Well, I'll take what I can get. With the way it's going, he has a good chance to become the third Lithuanian ever to qualify to a mass start, but the first one ever to qualify with top25 world cup points and not the +5 additional spots like Diana Rasimovičiūtė, or in Olympics/World Championships like Tomas Kaukėnas. EDIT: Scratch that crap, Nawrath came out of nowhere :DDDD Anyways, it's a historical 12th place, which is still the highest position in Lithuanian male biathlon ever.

Dale is really not having a good year :S

So Viktorija Andrulytė won bronze at the Laser Radial Championships in Oman. She beat Anne-Marie Rindom and other famous names in sailing. I honestly have no clue if I should get hyped or not, since I don't know what level of legit this competition actually was 1. Emma Plasschaert 2. Agata Barwinska 3. Viktorija Andrulytė

Strolia is slowly becoming the biathlete that I always wanted to have as a fan. Managed to get into points in all 4 races and three different disciplines. Is at the moment 21st overall biathlete, I know it's early days, but really no Lithuanian has ever been up there. Would be awesome if he somehow gave Lithuania the very first male top 10. Best ever result was 8th place by Diana Rasimovičiūtė in 2011/12 Oberhof Sprint. Strolia already had two opportunities to be in top 10 this year if he missed 1 less.

This 14th place is so weird when everybody apart from Kaukėnas performed far below their standards. Like, for us to finish 14th, we needed to do something good. Now it just feels as if other teams around us just looked even worse than our bad day. This could've been a very good opportunity for a historical top 10, but the first two legs from our leaders were awful.

That was sarcasm

She was saving herself for the relay.

Gabrielė Leščinskaitė probably lost her title of the most accurate biathlete right now with that 2+0+0+0 It was funny while it lasted.

I think last season started with Swedish domination and when they fell off, Norway and France took over.

Pretty decent day for Lithuania. Vytautas Strolia finished 17th with a superb ski time and his second best result ever. Gabrielė Leščinskaitė hit all ten targets and landed her second best result as well. Lastly, Linas Banys also hit all ten targets and got his best ever result at 61st. It's nice to see that Vytautas managed to get points in all three races so far, here's to hoping he doesn't burn out before the Olympics.

Vytautas Strolia posted a 19th course time, we haven't seen Lithuanians this fast since Diana Rasimovičiūtė. Sadly, very sadly, he missed two targets on a day where everybody was shooting really well. But, he still scored points in both Ostersund races as of now, hopefully he doesn't burn out like last year, when he had a very good first half of the season.

If they have two Andersen sisters as well, I would be the first to welcome them to the Lithuanian team. We need all the help we can get. Men's team seems to be under control and having the form of their lives

We strived for years and years to have a hit rate that's better than 60%. And now that we have a 100% hit rate for Leščinskaitė and 90% for Kočergina, we have completely abandoned our skiing

Makes you wonder how Hildebrand and Hammerschmidt would compare to them right now. Tbh, I even forgot Hinz existed for a moment

Nevermind, she is going to be racing in UCI Champions League and she will retire after the league is finished.

Wow, nice effort from Strolia. Really had a chance for a historic podium here if he shot 20/20. If he doesn't lose too much places in the final lap, this is going to be a PB for him.

Fomin is having a senior race of his life right now in the IBU cup

Gabrielė Leščinskaitė giving a lot of hopes with her pre-season racing, having a tendency to get faster and faster as the race goes on, gives me false hope that we're winning World Cup points today. Because that 4th and 5th lap was absolutely abyssmal and made a possible good performance absolutely average, and not helping much for her Olympic qualification.

I think it's picking up on the final trimester of 2019-20 season, including the IBU European Championships. It's probably picking up the World Champs from that season as well, only way I can explain Kočergina having such a good position.

This list also takes into account an additional trimester that's no longer eligible. Kaisa Makarainen is still in the list and she didn't start anywhere last year. Therefore, a lot of the numbers right now are wrong here, regarding qualification. Kočergina, for example, is only 9th right now in the actual list if I'm not mistaken, and Leščinskaitė got up to 10th place after a successful start in yesterday's sprint.

It would've been even worse, if @Olympian1010 hadn't joined the jury

Even though the stats display Denmark ---> Lithuania as a one-sided affair, Denmark is actually the 7th country that I awarded most points to and voted in 10/17 contests. Which means that most countries that vote a lot for Lithuania could be seen as a one-sided affair, because my points are pretty much all over the place if we disregard the fact that I'm a simp for US, GB and Brazil.

Yeah, it could be seen that Leščinskaitė is looking better from pre-season races. 25th place with 2 misses and 33rd course time overall, this feels finally like a year where she is capable to fight for World Cup points yet again.