- Ostapenko beats Estonia's Kontaveit to win Eastbourne WTA tournament
Latvia's top-ranked lady tennis player Alona Ostapenko on June 26 defeated Estonia's Anett Kontaveit in straight sets to become this year's winner of the Eastbourne WTA 500 series tennis tournament.
- New IOC poll finds more than half of Swedes back Stockholm/Sigulda Olympic bid
More than half of Swedes would like the country to host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games together with the Latvian town of Sigulda, according to a new poll released in Sweden.
- Latvia may receive silver medals in team relay at 2014 Winter Olympics
The International Olympic Committee has disqualified Russian lugers Albert Demchenko and Tatyana Ivanova; as a result, the Russians' silver medals in mixed team relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics should now go to the Latvian team.
- Inspired by basketball and its indelible history
Krisjana Barona street, 107 – this address in downtown Riga is pretty familiar to many Latvian basketball fans for being the home of one of the most significant sporting gymnasiums in the country – Daugava Sporta Nams.
- Latvian National Basketball Team ready to surprise all
After the Latvian Men’s National Basketball Team took down Lithuania in an exhibition game recently, the crowd that filled up the Riga Sport’s Arena up to its brink went crazy.
- Latvia’s Defence minister in Rio: ‘We can buy modern weapons, but we need people most’
By the time you pick up this issue of The Baltic Times, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will have wished farewell to the army of athletes from all over the world and will have embraced the paralympians.
- Igors Miglinieks: ‘Latvian basketball is developing faster than Lithuanian’
The Baltic Times sports writer Victor Shestopalov talks with Olympic champion, former Latvian basketball star Igors Miglinieks.
- Estonia’s fascinating triplets in Rio Olympics’ marathon
Leila, Liina, and Lily Luik, marathon runners from Estonia, are believed to be the first triplets to have ever made it to the Olympic Games.
- Lithuania’s biggest Olympic hope in tears, empty-handed
Lithuania’s hopes for its first Rio Olympics medal were dashed after Ruta Meilutyte, the gold winner in the 100 metre breaststroke in 2012 London Olympic Games, came in seventh in the final.
- Latvian Olympic team: Small in size but hungry for medals
The Latvian Olympian team might be one of the tiniest in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, but as many of the sportsmen clinch top 10 rankings in the respective branches of sport, Latvia exudes confidence in their Olympians.
- Legendary former CSKA Moscow player Sergey Tarakanov: ‘Losing to Zalgiris Kaunas was a tragedy for me and still is!’
The Baltic Times sports writer Victor Shestopalov reflects on one of the greatest rivalries in Soviet basketball history, between the best Soviet Army hoopsters from CSKA Moscow and Lithuania’s Kaunas Zalgiris, with the Russian super-club’s former power forward Sergey Tarakanov.
- New York Knicks stirs hoopla by claiming new buy, Lithuania’s Kuzminskas is ‘from USSR’
Lithuania’s plenipotentiary and extraordinary ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, has gotten involved after the New York Knicks listed their new NBA signing Rolandas Kuzminskas as being from the USSR, not Lithuania.
- Baltic basketball storm hits NBA’s East Coast
The Baltic Times senior sports writer Victor Shestopalov reflects on the season the Lithuanian centre Jonas Valanciunas and Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis have had in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the world’s most powerful basketball league.
- Pandora’s box for the Latvian ice hockey team
The ice hockey world championship has just wrapped up in Moscow, Russia, but it was not successful for Latvia, the Baltics’ traditional ice hockey stronghold.
- Baltic Sea Basketball
TBT’s chief sports contributor Victor Shestopalov reports from this year’s European Basketball Championship, which took place early this fall in several countries.
- VEF Riga wins LBL finals
On May 28, the sixth game of the Latvian Basketball League (LBL) finals ended in style for VEF Riga, as they saw off the challenge from Ventspils to win 71:63.
- VEF Riga’s American Trailblazer
TBT chief sports contributor Victor Shestopalov talks with American basketball player Gerald Robinson, who was an instrumental part of VEF Riga’s team throughout the course of this VTB United League season and domestic Latvian championship.
- Gulbis tumbles out of French Open in second round
Flamboyant Latvian tennis player Ernests Gulbis fought hard on the clay last week at the French Open.
- Victor’s Fixtures
TBT’s Chief Sports Correspondent Victor Shestopalov recommends the best games to watch in June.
- Building block for VEF Riga future wins
As the United League season wraps up, TBT’s chief sports contributor Victor Shestopalov reflects on the play of Riga’s top basketball club.
