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I voted for Athletics European Championships and I would be very invested into this one, this is the only sport in which my knowledge could compare to Biathlon And I voted for Rowing World Championships as well, because I love Rowing

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 10th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) France 3 1 Belgium July 11th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Croatia 2 1 England [/hide]

I knew this was coming after Sweden lost I'm on a team with @heywoodu, feels like TISC all over again.

Okay, Maria Vicente is a monster Only now did I notice that she qualified to the triple jump final and she has a shot of a medal there too

Where's @hckosice at? That 1500m. boys medal was probably a bit of a surprise for him

@heywoodu went up to 50th. Top 45 dream is still alive

Well, seeing as our final three girls are starting tomorrow and they're highly unlikely to get close to the final, it's safe to say that we qualified one athlete to Argentina, it's Dominykas Čepys in shot put that finished 5th. All in all, these championships were fairly terrible for us, not because of the places that we took, but nearly everyone was miles away from their SBs and PBs even when they showed good form in other competitions one-two weeks ago. I was truly shocked to see our runners in such a horrible shape, except for our 110m. Hurdler that finished 10th overall and broke the national U17 Hurdle record.

First medal for Lithuania from Kotryna Teterevkova in 200m. breaststroke. Last time we won a medal it was in 2015. Not to mention that her result in semifinal was close to Rūta Meilutytė's NR.

I just imagine her doing a false start in some championship race and the commentators going "well, looks like someone was too impatient to start the race"

Well, Vicente bettering the U18 best of Shukh.

Okay, we made it into a second final Let's overlook the fact there were only 16 participants.

Ooh, Kotryna Teterevkova swam into the final of 200m. Breaststroke in second place

It's not looking good for the Hungarian organising committee

To some of them it's going to be a 200m. semi-final

There are two words that I'd use to describe the performance of our 800m. girls. Utter disappointment The one that ran in the second heat didn't even look like she was trying to not finish dead last in her heat. Edit: Scratch that, the 5.37 from our 6 meter jumper is even more of an utter disappointment.

I demand an explanation!

I am very hyped for the afternoon session Very interesting if we sneak through the final in the men's high jump, women's long jump and men's discus. We're definitely not favourites to make it though. Then women's 800m. is hype, because it's a tactical race as well, so both of our girls have a possibility to sneak through to the semi. Lastly, two boys in the mens' triple jump (complete outsiders, but we never even qualify to men's triple jump, so yay history) and 2000m. SC our girl has a shot to make the final.

European Athletics does not have commercials though, they even showed the boys javelin, both groups.

At the moment, Lithuania is looking sub-par in these championships. Alanas Tautkus qualified in the semi of 100m. backstroke and Kotryna Teterevkova nearly made it in the final of 50m. breaststroke and qualified to this evening's 200m. breaststroke semifinal. Every other athlete went out in the first round.

And we have our first (hopefully not last) final for Lithuania Dominykas Čepys, 18.00, 7th qualifier.

A bit disappointing when you see that if our runners got close to their SBs, they'd be in semi-finals.

Maybe the heptathlon won't be that one sided as I originally thought

That's how you get famous!

Olivija is a freakin' genius to start high jump at 1.45. SO MUCH CAMERA TIME

YES, we're strategically moving in on the last place in the race walk, because that's where you want to be