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That is awesome that our swimming reached such a level that we can be competitive in relays with countries like Italy, Hungary, Japan. Our boys won the 2nd heat of 4x200 Freestyle, will have to wake up again to see if they'll hang on to a medal

Like for real, how can this group even exist? Group B: France [#4 World rankings] Slovenia [#5] Lithuania [#8] Germany [#11] Hungary [#43] Bosnia & Herzegovina [#46] A [#2, 16, 25, 36, 37, 52] C [#9, 10, 21, 32, 45, 48] D [#6, 12, 13, 35, 42, 47] That's some horrid balancing right there, at least exchanging Germany with the third best team from group A would give Bosnia and Hungary some feasible chances to survive.

That's why I said two

They were interviewed after the win and kept talking about how their strength is that they're a very good team. But it's basically Popovici dragging two +51s boys with close to WR times

Wow, what a tight race, very glad I woke up for it, happy with the bronze! Even though a lot of countries are missing, this is still valuable since our boys managed to fend off the Italians and Hungarians. Three of them swam under 50s, that's a massive overperformance for two of them, especially since the two guys that had the best time on paper, were the slowest of the four.

If our men's relay gets a medal, I'm not complaining, because then they'll get funding and we need to keep as many of these guys in the sport as possible so that we could qualify freestyle relays to the Olympics.

From the looks of it, I see that these World Junior Championships are going to be even easier than the Europeans. Highly disappointed that we didn't send more swimmers. USA, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, China, Australia missing.

Lithuanian 4x100m Freestyle relay into the final with the second time, only losing out to Romania with Popovici, that's pretty nice

We don't have a single Olympian that has followed through with a music career in Lithuania. Not to mention the fact that the quality of music would be debatable

Yeah, it's weird how one small idea for fun turned into something that nearly reached a decade And on a sports forum of all places

Well, Fomin actually won the super sprint for Lithuania I don't know how much that actually means, junior category and not a single bigger name. I guess it's nice that his form is on the right track.

It's nice that we can open with everybody's favourite - the super sprint Fomin was first in heat 2 and I can't even feel any joy with how passionately I despise this useless discipline

What are the chances that these massive level drops in many events are the first indications of post-pandemic effects on athletes that had to adapt/train less or in worse conditions for a couple of seasons?

Lithuania did surprisingly well with everything that was going on: Artistic Gymnastics 0-1-0 Athletics 1-0-0 Canoe Sprint 1-1-2 Rowing 0-0-1 Swimming 1-0-3 Athletics - easy to say that Alekna saved these championships for our team. Liveta Jasiūnaitė really underperformed when a simple 61 meter throw would've sufficed for a bronze. Other than that, Morauskaitė, Truskauskas, Baikštys, Baikštytė, Petrokaitė, Gudžius, Karinauskaitė, Galvydytė, Zarankaitė completely underperformed. No season bests, no personal bests, not even anything close to their season bests, really a huge shame, especially since 2018 championships were historically successful for our team. Beach Volleyball - for the very first time we had two women teams in a single championship and even though only one team made it into the top 24, both looked rather competitive and only a single match was lost 2:0, every other was 2:1. Cycling Road - Leleivytė was the highlight with her 12th place, finishing with the main group, other than that, not much to talk about. Cycling Track - Really huge underperformance here with Svajūnas Jonauskas and Men's team sprint with 9th place as one of the better results. Nice to see that we're actually trying something for the Olympics, it's the first season since we have a men's team sprint. With women it's no longer possible, since Krupeckaitė was too valuable and nobody can replace her on our team. Olivija Baleišytė finished 6th in elimination race, not much strength left for Omnium, she was injured during the event. Rowing - interesting that the medal came from the team that I least expected it from, it will be interesting to see what they'll do on the world stage. Our women's team finished in 4th, but it was only their second ever competition together, so I have expectations that they'll continue to be a bigger threat with every new challenge under their belt.

It happened so fast feels like it didn't happen at all. Not sure if I like the whole all championships at the same time thing, because you're oversaturated with information and don't really have the time to cherish the victories along the way. If I'm overwhelmed as a Lithuanian fan, I can only imagine how difficult it was for larger countries to keep up with all of their athletes, results, victories and so on.

I completely understood what you wrote, but you completely misunderstood my satire and irony I'm just poking fun with how we can save canoeing even more than its already being 'saved'.

Oh my god, everyone, he's done it! He saved canoeing sprint. Mixed relays for K4 and C4 as Olympic events and we can delete the single K1 1000 and C1 1000, because it's not fun to row so long without company

Naaaah, this would be even worse. Nearly all of the Lithuanian team were focused on 200m since they were children, upping it to 500m at least gave them the chance to try, with 1000m distances only they'd all probably have to be retired, because European and World Champions are struggling to convert their results to 500m as is. Žustautas holds a WR in 200m C1, Seja world & European champion, Korobov, Navakauskas, Olejnik, Nekrošius, Maldonis, Ramanauskas, Lankas. All of them have many medals from every championship imaginable, not a single one of them is doing the event that they were doing when they won these. Rio De Janeiro bronze medalists Ramanauskas and Lankas couldn't even make the team for the K4 500m, because that became the priority event for every single athlete that still had Olympic dreams to realise.

Yeah, I really hate the whole young and urban movement and the absolute necessity to try and change everything to appeal to no one. No sport is safe now. Skateboarding, breakdancing, golf, rollerblading, sport climbing were not Olympic sports for a reason. Basketball 3x3 is absolutely unnecessary as well. Modern Pentathlon with a human obstacle course. I'm getting tired of these awful decisions and with every year there's more of them.

Four medals for Lithuania in sprint canoeing and only one in an Olympic distance, just shows how much the decisions of which disciplines are Olympic has fucked us and our chances to succeed in this sport on an Olympic scale Swimming can have 6 different freestyles, running can have 100m up to a marathon, but canoeing sprint is not allowed to have their 200m sprint...

I'm not too fond of basketball lately, but seems we've been winning a lot of stuff recently. Women's u18 European just a week ago, medals in EYOF, a lot of important victories in 3x3. Perhaps Lithuanian basketball is regaining some quality.

BRING BACK THE SWISS USERS And while you're at it, Austria, Estonia, Australia, Switzerland, Norway in TISC again! Sidenote: actually surprised how over the years we haven't seen a single active Belgian user, when we have Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark for days.

Our very own Gabija Klimukaitė was in the right place at the right time to steal Femke Bol's starting number. Hopefully, this won't be the highlight of her career and she'll grow into a competitive 100m hurdler She ran in three u20 championships, next season she'll have a go at U23.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I think that the key lesson of the day is that everybody in the discus final was so ANGRY, cursing, pissed off, stressed. Gudžius was driving himself insane after every throw, Čeh was very unhappy, the Swedes were not too happy either, whilst Alekna and Okoye were the most chill throwers of the night and reached their biggest career achievements. I am very happy and very glad, this young man is hopefully going to have many good competitive years in front of him. I imagine discus throw finals are going to be nail biting every single time between him, Čeh and another youngster - Sosna. I'm feeling overwhelmed, it's nice that Čeh didn't win everything and that we were able to bring one home!!!

Woooow, this has to be the worst high jump final of athletics history To know that both Glebauskas and Baikštys were jumping 2.28 just last summer and came into this season hopelessly out of form, makes me feel all kinds of sad. Missed opportunity for the both of them to get something good on their resume. Just like Stanys with that one silver medal and nothing else for the rest of his life.