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Greta Karinauskaitė just ran a 9:26.88 in 3000m steeplechase at the NCAA qualifiers. This is now the new national record, the old one belonged to Rasa Troup in 2008. With this result she qualified to the World Championships and is probably one of the major contenders for the gold at the European u23 championships later this year. She is also now less than four seconds off from the Olympic Qualifying time, so perhaps she'll even reach that this summer?

I don't know how to feel about these championships, it feels like every major championship is an experiment for the Lithuanian team. Pretty much every single crew participating here is newly formed, some have been rowing together for three weeks. Lithuania was preparing a women's quadruple sculls team, one got injured and now we have a single sculler and double sculls instead I think only men's pair is the single boat that has been rowing together for a few years in our 6 boat squad.

Two more results around 64 metres and I think that qualification through rating is very very likely. Jusis kept talking about how Martynas is very talented and that he'll throw very far, but I struggled to believe him, especially after last season where Martynas was perma stuck throwing below 60 metres. I thought it would be another Poška incident again, but it seems that there's hope for him to develop yet.

Martynas Alekna, older brother of Mykolas Alekna smashed his PB in the discus throw with a 64.00 throw, only losing to Stahl. This is his very first real competitive throw in senior level and a PB of nearly 4 metres. Perhaps a sign of good things to come?

"Mare Norstrum" in Barcelona Rūta Meilutytė doesn't qualify to the A final in the women's 100m Breaststroke, but swims an olympic Q mark in the B final later that same evening. 1:06.38 She is the second Lithuanian Olympian after Danas Rapšys in 200m and 400m Freestyle.

There's not that much going on at the national championships. The most important national championships are going to be held in Summer. These ones are mostly valuable for European Junior, EYOF and U23 qualifications.

It's honestly scary how many people don't have a strong position against Belarus and Russia entering sport competitions. If they managed to take over Ukraine, then the Baltics would've probably been swallowed too and their friends in the East would've probably started a crusade on their neighbouring country. We would be in an all-out war and sports would be the last thing on our minds Not letting them compete is the least we can do, when Ukraine is keeping the world safe.

I think that even with shooting 0+0+0+0, we're not looking at anything better than a 21st place. Seems tired and not well accustomed to this track this year. Other skiers that miss will catch up to him before the shooting.

He will be in the mass start tomorrow, because Jacquelin and Samuelsson have ended their seasons already, pushing Vytautas up to 25th position overall.

Check out Maro if you have the time, she's been releasing awesome stuff.

I'm sad that Greece got one of their worst results the first time I ranked them, and even with 11 points. I have no clue at all how that even happened, it was a very radio friendly song, should've been up there with the likes of Germany. User voting is absolutely unpredictable, like New Zealand also always sends songs that curate a similar vibe, one contest you're up there, the other they decide it's bottom 5... It's also one of my favourite NZ entries, made it to my indie/folk playlist together with Blaue Blume this year. It's always weird to me, how songs that have bad vocal mixing or average/bad vocals in general just crush it and get valued better than music that has a lot of thought put in it. I guess I should learn to be happy with small victories, like Italian twelve points and ten from Hungary, but I am so darn competitive and when you mix that with me being absolutely depressed today, TISC was tough to get through this time for me Really happy that Denmark didn't suffer NZ's fate this year, I really didn't think much of their chances when I gave them those 12 points, so really happy for them, especially for the wild first session that they had this morning. And happy for Italy as well, my third place and my winner prediction rang true. It really helps if you're coming from Eurovision selection (as was shown by Spain and previous entries in the past) and stylistically the song was somewhat similar to the previous Italian win, so I logically assumed Ciao Ciao would be well-accepted too.

@Wanderer you're a changed man... You can't just go and decide to give 12 points to the winner just like that. and USA too, they finally got you. Blink twice if you're kidnapped.

Feels like UK or Argentina perhaps?

First Italy, then Hungary The timing of this, is just Not only the 10 points to Lithuania, but points to New Zealand and Greece as well Thank you @Vektor

My 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th picks are all down there with me between 28th to 35th. Feels like my tastes no longer much align with the majority of the users participating

I expected to have expectations, now I'm just numb

Lithuanian delegation does not need a break this year. We're already broken

Tough contest for us veterans

I think this is looking to be one of the worst Lithuanian performances alongside my awful debut and Foje

Italian vibes here, I think

Anytime that someone complains that it's impossible for someone to win, I always think back to HOW THE FUCK did Lithuania ever win. And it's not like I haven't tried to replicate the success, but we've never seen a top 5 ever since So, it's possible, you just need a miracle.

Feels like United States, but I might be wrong.

Yeah, what were the odds for the planets to align this year

Wooh, thanks @konig for the points!

Fun fact, during the final voting phase, the first 6 countries to vote all border each other. Will be fun to see if that cultural proximity will swing the votes in any way