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I see that participation is continuing, I'll let Bearas have this one

She should have just kept going until the World Championship qualifying mark 5cm at a time

Following Miklyčiūtė is always a funny experience Another shared silver medal for her, she can come back in two years time, since she is born in 2005. With some nice Lithuanian athletes born in 2006/2007 as well, should be a pretty solid team if everyone is healthy, and we might continue our medal streak in the U23 scene

Gabija Galvydytė became the second Lithuanian athlete after Mykolas Alekna, to qualify to these championships through a qualifying mark. 4:00.71 in 1500m, nearly an NR. Things to take away, she is actually a 800m runner, but she started running 1500m more and more and I can't say anymore where she has better potential. Second thing, the qualifying marks have become insane lately, I remember the simpler times where more of our athletes would qualify directly, not only though rankings.

Well, already three medals for Lithuania, we are definitely becoming a swimming country to watch out for. Smiltė Plytnykaitė defends her 50m Breaststroke gold Tajus Juška already has a silver in 200m Freestyle, which is like his 4th/5th best discipline, already in 50m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly finals tomorrow. Huge highlight is our women's 4x200m Freestyle taking silver, beating countries like UK, France, Germany, Hungary and Spain. This is a huge achievement, because you know your work is paying off when it is teams winning medals and not only individual talented athletes. Kaušpėdas screwed up not getting the gold in 50m Back, hopefully he fixes his nerves before 100m Back, but I feel like at least 3 more medals is very reasonable from these championships for us. Already 11 finals for us in three days and lots of semis too.

Yet I think that you might be bouncing up and down, while we will probably be staying for a looooong time

Not as certain as ours, brother

Yeah, it's a pretty painful watch for Lithuanian fans In unrelated news, Martynas Kolupaila ran a 10.42 in Bauhaus, Germany today, broke the Lithuanian U18 NR and posted an =nr. 1 u18 time in Europe this year. That's what I'm mostly happy about today, we might have Adas and Martynas at the European Championships next year, if things keep looking this good.

4th from Galvydytė, there's a chance this might be the best Lithuanian effort here, unless Jasiūnaitė, Gudžius or Matusevičius have something to say about it

Wow, same thing happened in 1st league too

The championship is just too hot to broadcast apparently

Finally some good news, a small one, but a PB for Rupšytė

As a progressive Lithuanian that doesn't care about Russian at all, I have no idea what you wrote here

Most definitely for a country like us Although I guess this gives some of our athletes additional inspiration to run some PBs. We're already one NR in and a couple of SBs, maybe more good things up ahead?

Give us 48 hours, we're coming back home