The city of Šiauliai played host to the country’s celebration of Olympic Day , together with the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian Olympic Movement, last Saturday in a festival with more than a hundred different sports and entertainment activities. 20,000 people are estimated to have attended the day-long event for a chance try out various sports, chat with professional athletes, meet national Olympians, engage in games and tournaments, and join educational and Olympic educational events.

The best U19 football teams from the Old Continent will compete in Lithuania from 14-27 July and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, Olympic champion and president of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee (LTOK), will be the ambassador of the UEFA U19 Women's Football Championship.

Lithuanian athlete Mykolas Alekna broke the world discus record with an incredible 74.35 metres in Ramona, Oklahoma, on Sunday. The record had stood for almost 38 years.

The Baseball Association of Hong Kong in China will host the 12-team tournament, the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced. The event will be held at the Central Harbourfront Event Space.

Representatives from five National Olympic Committees (NOCs) met in Vilnius, Lithuania, to finalise the International Dual Career Project for Olympic Committees. This initiative has led to the development of a free training platform, which is now up and running.

To celebrate the centenary of Lithuanian athletes' debut at the Olympic Games, the National Olympic Committee of Lithuania has launched the 100th Anniversary Walking Challenge of the Olympic Movement. More than 11,500 participants have already registered via the #walk15 mobile app.

The Fair Play Awards ceremony took place in Vilnius on Thursday. Olympic champion and LNOC President Daina Gudzinevičiūtė and Lithuanian Fair Play Committee President and Olympian Austra Skujytė presented the awards to the winners of six nominations at the National Olympic Committee of Lithuania.

Femke Bol of the Netherlands and Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen received awards as European Athletes of the Year at the annual Golden Tracks award ceremony in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has been warned it has opened a "pandora's box" by allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at Paris 2024, but Russia has claimed the partial suspension represents "discrimination".

Several European nations have declared they will refuse to play Russia's under-17 teams, who have been allowed to return to competitions by UEFA.

Figure skater Margarita Drobiazko has defended her decision to continue to perform in Russia as she faces being stripped of Lithuanian citizenship.

National Olympic Committee (NOC) Presidents from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have renewed their opposition to Russia and Belarus' participation under any banner in international sport.

Lithuania’s Elzbieta Adomaitytė secured the women’s individual laser run title on the first day of the International Modern Pentathlon Union Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships in Bath.

Lithuania and Latvia won the women's and men's 3x3 basketball titles respectively on the third day of the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.