Today marks the 40th birthday of Cristiano Ronaldo - one of the best footballers in history.

Badminton Europe’s Board of Directors allocated the 2023 European U17 Championships to the Lithuanian Badminton Federation. The event will be the first-ever European championships in the sport of badminton to be held in Lithuania and is expected to take place in the nation’s capital Vilnius next summer. The proposed dates for the championships that will be held in the same year as the city of Vilnius celebrates its 700th anniversary will be 4 – 12 August 2023.

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup having kicked off in Qatar, Parliament deplores the deaths of thousands of migrant workers ahead of the tournament.

Valdemaras Milkus, a doctoral student at the Institute of Biotechnology of Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Centre, set himself a big challenge last summer – to complete an extreme mountain running a marathon. It is a 42 km mountain run, also known as Skyrunning, held in Italy. The doctoral student achieved his goal and led his faculty forward in the VU Summer Challenge 2022 project.

On Monday afternoon, the Subcommittee on Human Rights will assess conditions for foreign workers in Qatar ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

Last Saturday, Rūta Meilutytė won the golden medal on Saturday in 50 m breaststroke of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest.

Athletes and their coaches are going to be awarded significantly higher bonuses by the Government for medals in Paralympics and Deaflympics starting now. Consequently, higher bonuses are going to be allocated to athletes winning medals in Brazil Deaflympics and their coaches.

Polish Sports Personality of the Year 2022 awards were held in Warsaw. The captain of the Polish national football team and a Bayern Munich player, Robert Lewandowski, won the plebiscite for the second time in a row. The podium places were completed by the athlete Anita Włodarczyk and the motorcycle speedway rider Bartosz Zmarzlik.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has met with Enrico Della Casa, President of the European Cycling Union (UEC), visiting Lithuania to discuss Lithuania's preparedness to organise the European Track Cycling Championship instead of Belarus.

Faculty of Public Governance and Business Master's Degree programme "Sports Industries Management" and "Tourism Sector Management" students, immersed in "Marketing and Communication subjects, had the possibilty to expand their knowledge undertaking a group analysis. It involved analyzing marketing activities, according to the requirements of the Lithuanian Cycling Federation (LDSF).