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I think her comeback might've been inspired by the fact that the federation knew that Ieva wouldn't be let off the hook, even if the prohibited substance was consumed accidentally, so they organised a plan B since there was already an Olympic quota. But that's just my take

Donata Karaliūnaitė, the athlete that won the Olympic medal together with Milda Valčiukaitė has come back from retirement. Valčiukaitė was recently injured, but recovering well and it was said that Karaliūnaitė is starting to look even better than before, so safe to say that Lithuania is still going to be a threat in the women's double sculls.

You shouldn't joke like that, because someone might end up not voting afterwards

I'll see what I can do, I'll probably be available

Can those that already voted get one additional point to give to their 13th place? we want to be somehow involved during April as well

Omg, absolutely same just with 5 to 9

So just like in modern pentathlon, if the Lithuanian song doesn't score high points, I can just blame the effin' horses?

Damn, Oberhofer, Runggaldier and now Gontier in such a short time frame... Sanfilippo on suicide watch

Lithuanian Biathlon Championships for the first time in forever held in Lithuania: 1st day sprint, 2nd day super sprint

Gintarė is Asadauskaitė 2.0, you can believe she will try her best to run herself into the medals

I'm honestly surprised now that I voted so quickly this year, usually I tend to take more time. As a completely wild guess, I think the other 4 nations are probably Poland, France with Benolympique, then Earlywoodu for the Netherlands, since they posted the song first this year (perhaps a new year's resolution?), Spain only gave a 12, so the hosts are waiting for the rest of the points before they highlight them green and lastly Tunisia as the lone African representative have gathered the points from all over Africa, including Mali, South Africa, Kenya, Algeria, Morocco, Cote De Ivoire, Kongo, Zanzibar, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mozambique, Libya, Angola, Rwanda, Cameroon, Tanzania, Sudan, Tunisia.

The Lithuanian votes are in, so rest assured everyone voting for Lithuania, your votes are safe Interesting contest overall, liked a lot of songs, loved only a few songs. The average quality bar is very high this year, but not too many wow factors among the entries, still, I found a few songs that I wanted to bump up the ladder, but I couldn't (sorry 7th and 8th place, still love you though) and I'd say that I've come up with a really respectable top 9. Everything after that was a complete margin game.

Dang, kinda disappointing only Venčkauskaitė made it through to the final Serapinaitė even got beaten by our youngster Adomaitytė, so it's looking clear to who the second Olympic quota will be going.

4 listens in, I think I have a pretty clear picture on the standings right now. I think I'll only need 5 this year and I'll do it in the second part of this week to see if additional time affects my decision making.

I'm just wondering who else noticed it, because it's impossible to not notice if you've ever listened to that/those particular artist/s.

The season has ended and I'm back traditionally with some medal table stats. Norway blew everyone out of the water this year, with 83 podium finishes in all and 38 of them were gold. This is miles better compared to 2019/20 season where Norway had 55 podium finishes with 32 gold medals. It seems that Norway compensated mostly with silvers and bronzes and were met with huge success in both the men's and the women's side with 8 different Norwegian athletes getting on the podium at some point and 7 of them scoring wins as well. Though where someone is celebrating such huge success, there has to be a country that suffered for it. France is still second in the medal table, but in 2019/20 they've had 51 podium finishes, four away from Norway, but only 15 of them were gold. This year though, the number went down by a lot, 34 podium finishes, but the gold amount stayed relatively the same at 12. Really, this hit can be somewhat explained by Martin Fourcade's retirement and even though the French boys really tried to hold their own, last season there was only one individual race where a French athlete didn't stand on the podium, whilst this year it happened in 12 races on the men's side. The women performed pretty much on par to their expectations, though Braisaz and Bescond didn't find any success this year. We have a new third place this year and it's the biggest overperformers of the season, nearly trippling their amount of podium finishes. The men's, the women's side and even the relays were filled with podium after podium and in the end five different athletes did it for Sweden. They smashed their 13 (2 gold) podium record from last season with a 31 podium finish this season, with three different race winners, victories in both the men's and the women's relay as well as the mixed too, tallying up to 8 golds. Recording 12 podiums out of 18 relay races this season, the team was led by Hanna Oeberg and Sebastian Samuelsson and it could have been even better, but the Oeberg sisters really shut down in the second half of the season. In fourth place we have what people probably think is an unhappy Germany, but they actually nearly replicated their result from last season, down two podiums and 1 gold, they finished the season with 20 podium finishes and three victories, two of them coming from the relays and one from recently retired Peiffer. He was definitely the shining star on the men's side this year, especially since Doll had an abyssmal season by his standards. On the women's side, Franziska Preuss and her consistency really carried the team with Herrmann stepping up a bit near the end of the season, but not able to replicate her three wins from the last one. In fifth place we have Russia that marginally improved from last season. The podium count is still 7, but this time they exchanged one gold to three and that comes from Loginov and two relay races. Actually, most damage that Russia did this year was on the relays, because they only scored two individual podiums this year and there was nothing promising on the women's side at all. In sixth place we have somewhat of a fall from grace with Italy down from 3rd place last season. Although they didn't win that much gold, they only posted 1 less podium this season and they managed to find success in different places. Dorothea Wierer underperformed by her standards, but Lukas Hofer really stepped it up at the end of the season to put the men on the board with three individual podiums. In seventh place there is another hugely improved team and it's Austria with 9 medals and two golds. In comparison, last season Austria stepped on the podium only three times. Though we should use the term team liberally, because 8 of those podiums were achieved through Hauser that had the season of her life and one was the second place from Leitner, with hopes that perhaps he can keep improving and bring back some pride in the Austrian men team. 8th place is our final massive overperformer and it's Belarus with 8 podium finishes. Last season they didn't manage to be top 3 at all, but this year they found a lot of success through their women's team posting some great results in the relays as well as the team's leading stars Alimbekava and Sola getting on the podium a couple of times inidividually. Lastly, a brief overview of the other teams: In 2019/20 season there were 14 countries in the medal table and this year there's one less at 13. Finland, Estonia and Slovakia didn't manage to get on the podium this season, but there were two new countries, one of which was Belarus and the other was Slovenia with Fak. Out of those countries, Ukraine and USA performed up to their expectations and equaled the amount of podium finishes from last season. On the other hand, Switzerland and Czech Republic didn't have a good time and they both went from 5 medals last year, down to one this season. Lastly, the numbers this season are a bit inflated since there are 18 more podium winners this year, but the reapers of these rewards are Norway and Sweden with their huge increase in podium finishes this year.

Nope, I'm not talking about the Kazakhstan sample, when you sample music it's literally the point that it's the same, because it's a sample, I have no problem with that, because they're not doing anything to hide their inspiration. There is a different song out there that thinks its slick.

I see you with your TISC black magic

Nobody told her that there's no special bibs or globes for shooting percentages

Think she did it for extra screen time?

I wanted to say that I'm really happy that we get some nature disaster races at least at the end of the season. I didn't expect Dorothea to be the biggest disaster though

And they're already postponed due to the wind, with women's mass start starting two and a half hours later than planned.

Finally had the time to do the second listen. I am now down to 20 songs and I don't think that my top 3 is going to change in any way. I am also bitterly disappointed by the fact that there are two songs that would probably score points, but one isn't doing itself any favours being in English (the lyrics are just too painful) and one is just soooooooooo similar to another popular song that is executed a thousand times better and I can't unhear it every single time I put it on.

Nice, Marius Žiūkas just sneaked into the Olympics in the last few seconds, so two qualifications for us today

I'm somewhat interested what caused a drop like that too bad my curiosity can't be fulfilled.