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Well, it all started with the Javelin Throw, where she threw 51+ metres on her final attempt, but it was not accepted, because the javelin didn't land correctly and that cost Skujytė around 100~ points. So we tried to appeal this decision, because the video footage showed that the javelin landed correctly, so there were three protests and all of them were declined, which of course ruined Skujytė's RIO chances, because she is not the best 800m. runner and our Javelin Throw coach that was accompanying our athletes filed a complaint of her own, because she also saw the footage and said that the javelin wouldn't have slided a few meters further, if it hadn't landed correctly and she even mentioned that the javelin was somewhere around 53 meters and that the judges started marking the javelin in a wrong place, but everything was declined and her final score was 45m. After all of this, she still decided to compete in 800m. to finish honourably in 7th-8th place, but after 150m. she felt a sting in her leg and said that the last thing she would want is to be carried out with a stretcher out of the stadium so she stopped running and limped away. Still, she was in good mood at the press conference, mentioned that a 2020 Olympics is physically impossible for her, but she would like to at least try and hang on for the 2017 season.

Our country is actually very negative towards imports, so I don't see having a Kiplagat as a possibility in our near future. There was this case when we gave citizenship to an American figure skater and now she's dancing for another country. Since it was a very rare occasion for our country, now the general crowd of people feel betrayed and I think we will need another 10 years now for a possible import.

4th place in the half marathon is a nice way to finish these championships (Especially after the Skujytė scandal in Heptathlon)

Way to go Lavillenie. You most definitely left a mark in this competition

Congratulations

I bet the odds for 800m. would be over the roof

Yet another reason for you to support her maybe she'll make more money for you in the near future.

Skujytė is showing why she is the best shot putter in Heptathlon yet again, of course 200m. might knock her down the order, but her RIO dream is still alive. It would be the 5th consecutive Olympic Games for her and if I'm not mistaken, she would be the first heptathlete to ever participate in 5 Olympic Games if of course, she collects the points needed for the quota.

[hide] Knockout Round June 25th - July 10th, 2016 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final, winning Nation will become Men's Football UEFA Euro 2016 Champion Final Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 July 10th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis Portugal 1 2 France [/hide]

The mood of the team was pretty grim before starting these championships, but a medal, two additional finals, a possible medal from Skujytė in Heptathlon and our female marathon team might make these championships pretty memorable.

We waited four years for another major championship medal. The silver from Airinė Palšytė is a wonderful achievement for our athletics

What an impressive achievement for our Javelin Thrower - Liveta Jasiūnaitė, whom prior to winning a bronze medal in U23 European Championships thought about ending her career. Things are really looking up for her

Getting into scandals, fighting and arguing with our federation through the media instead of actually replying to messages that she got on her e-mail. Basically, she thought that her funding was cut off, because she got pregnant and instead of replying to old letters that she got on her e-mail, which explained that that was not the case at all, she took that to the media and there was this article that Lithuania doesn't care about her and that she's useless now that she got pregnant and of course being the children that our federation is, they made fun of her on their Facebook page publicly. After that, she got in an argument with her long time coach in Spain and I believe she even tried to train on her own for a moment. So I'm really wondering if she'll be jumping beyond 14 meters any time soon.

I just really hope that she'll be able to come back to her level after that. She already did some stupid things throughout her career (not talking about the pregnancy here) and I believe she had a falling out with her long time coach in Spain.

*A couple of years after her silver (was what I meant) Whole Lithuania thinks that it's a shame she met Kilty and there was this huge scandal with our federation about her pregnancy. She can meet all the Kilty's she wants, but she could've waited after Rio at least with the pregnancy thing

Small error, mixed it up, because she won gold in European U23 a couple of years later.

Top 12 results from Europe are automatically qualified to semi-finals, which is the case for Schippers in 100m.. Also, she chose not to start in 200m

Well, she's been plagued with some injuries. Actually all of her career is just one big rollercoaster of unluck. She clocks 2:01.00 gets injured, doesn't perform for 2-3 years, clocks under two minutes in the Universiade, gets injured again and still hasn't came back after that one. Speaking of injuries, we sure have been getting a lot of them. Another 800m. runner was qualified, but got injured a couple of weeks ago, Grinčikaitė got injured a couple of weeks ago, but she'll be starting, then our 400m. Hurdles runner Staišiūnaitė started a gofundme page where she got the necessary funds to prepare for Rio, got injured and will be out till next year, plus our 100m hurdler Tamošaitytė, Gudžius started in our national championships one week ago after a severe injury, even Palšytė had problems and the European Championship is only her second competition this season. + Our youth world champion tripple-jumper got pregnant, which really stretched our small team. And answering your second question, Balčiūnaitė might not go to Rio, because she expects much more of herself and mentioned in an interview that there would be nothing to do there with a time like this.

Seeing her struggle was indeed a surprise. She might redeem herself in Rio though

For our team, three passed, three eliminated and one soon to be eliminated.

Pretty dreadful afternoon session for team Lithuania. No one performed up to expectations and Giedrė Kupstytė is definitely not finishing anywhere close to top 12 in shot put, so I can just reflect back on how beautiful the morning session was

Looking at the poor results, I'd say Veldakova might be safe.

Yeah, that's pretty disappointing

Serbia is having a great championships on day 1 Group 1 needs to get their stuff together, never seen so many round 1 no jumps.

That's a very unfortunate turn of events for Tero Pitkamaki, now he can only hope he qualifies to the final.