Correction: February 23, 2018

I need to correct a five-and-a-half-year-old post, believe it or not.  I was doing a little research on the history of the fifteen former Soviet republics in the Olympics for a post scheduled for publication tomorrow and found out, much to my surprise, that while Estonia and Latvia competed in the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympics for the first time as independent countries since 1936, Lithuania, contrary to what I wrote in this post from August 11, 2012, competed in the 1992 Olympics as an independent country for the time since . . . 1928.  Lithuania couldn't afford to send teams to the United States for the 1932 Winter and Summer Olympics, and a dispute with Hitler over control of the Baltic seaport city of Klaipėda led Lithuania to skip the 1936 Winter and and Summer Olympics in Germany.  Lithuania was forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, and so it had to miss the Games then . . . which worked out fine since the 1940 Winter and Summer Olympics were canceled due to World War II.  (Gallows humor there.)

The original error has been corrected.  Better late than never.