Pele, the 74-year-old footballer, has been released from the hospital in Sao Paolo after a successful treatment for a urinary tract infection.

The International Children Games, A grandiose sports event, will take place in Kaunas in 2017. This was approved this weekend in Lake Macquarie (Australia) at the Organization Committee meeting of the International Children Games which discussed what city in the world is going to be honoured to host the Games in three years, the Kaunas City Council's press service said.

Lithuanian Olympic champion Rūta Meilutytė won the silver in the final of the FINA World Swimming Championship 2014 in classic style on 100 meters distance. The championship was held last week in Doha, capital of Qatar.

Olympic swimming champion Ruta Meilutyte from Lithuania defended her 50metres breaststroke title at the FINA World Short Course Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Footballers Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), and Manuel Neuer (Germany) are fighting for the title of the best footballer of 2014 in the poll of FIFA and 'France Football' magazine. The winner will be announced on 12st January 2015 in Zurich.

After some incidence regarding Deividas Stagniūnas and Isabella Tobias Lithuanian ice skating federation finally has a new couple for the international stage - Saulius Ambrulevičius and American Taylor Tran.

Vilnius basketball club 'Lietuvos Rytas' ensured themselves the promotion to the 1/6 of the final tournament of the European Cup. On Wednesday evening they beat the Romanian team CSU 'Asesoft' with the score 79:72 ( 28:15, 11:19, 22:15, 18:23).

The best Lithuanian tennis player - Ričardas Berankis - won the tennis tournament Andria e Castel del Monte in Italy.

There are some changes going on in the Formula 1 team Ferrari. It was stated that F. Alonso (33) is leaving the team and will be replaced by Sebastian Vettel (27). According to some sources, F. Alonso will join McLaren team.

The coach of Croatian team Niko Kovac is expecting UEFA punishment for Croatia making trouble during a Euro 2016 qualifier that took place Italy.