Following the publication of Lithuania’s 2016 conscription lists on January 11, it has been confirmed a number of the country’s top athletes are able to postpone their service.
Major Zygimantas Adamonis, the head of the Conscription and Manning Unit, told BNS that around 8,000 males aged between 18-25 were put on 2015’s conscription lists.
Some of the names also featured on 2016’s call-up.
The 2016 lists contain the names of basketball players Jonas Valanciunas, who plays for the Toronto Raptors, and Gedi...
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