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ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE. Covid in July Fractured ribs after falling off a horse less than three weeks before the Olympic start A bad day in fencing, but a fabulous perfect score in riding Laura Asadauskaitė does her magic again, running from 13th to 2nd and winning our very first medal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I honestly can't believe it, if it wasn't for that horse on drugs in Rio De Janeiro, this could have been a third Olympic medal in a row for Laura. What a phenomenal athlete that will be forever remembered in the history of women's modern pentathlon. I don't know if she is aiming for Paris, it's only three years, perhaps she could do it, but she would be 40 in Paris Gintarė Venčkauskaitė raced a beautiful race aswell, with another perfect 300 in riding and an absolute cracker of a race in the running+shooting. You know shit is about to go down when you have Venčkauskaitė with a WR and Asadauskaitė with the OR in the last discipline.

Heartbreak for Lithuania, probably the last real chance to get a medal in these Olympics, with a small off-chance for Andrius Gudžius (has a minor injury) and Laura Asadauskaitė, whom caught covid a month ago and fractured her ribs when she fell with her horse during training a few weeks ago. Anyways, Milda Valčiukaitė and Donata Karalienė are absolutely amazing. Milda recovering from multiple injuries this season, Donata Karalienė training for a couple of months after a three year hiatus from the sport. It's unbelievable they missed the bronze by so little.

With Rapšys doing what he's doing, I'm just happy that we have Šidlauskas and Teterevkova that managed to qualify to their 100m breaststroke semi-finals, which is a very decent performance for Teterevkova when she's only 19 and Šidlauskas is fairly young in the swimming scene as well.

Well, since nobody cares about swimming and I'm too lazy to make a thread right now, I'm really happy that Savickas took the silver medal in the U20's 100m. Breaststroke. He's been pretty good and might even be capable to go under a minute before the next Olympics.

Martynas Alekna survived as well and into the Discus Throw final with a 57+ throw. He'll need to throw near his PB if we want a medal.

Greta Karinauskaitė is the first Lithuanian to be proud of today Ran close to her PB in the 3000m Steeplechase and looked like a pretty comfortable final, so perhaps more to come? If not this year, she is born in 2001, so she'll have another go.

5 additional Lithuanians have qualified through the rating system: Airinė Palšytė - high jump (3rd Olympics) Liveta Jasiūnaitė - javelin throw Agnė Šerkšnienė - 400m Adrijus Glebauskas - high jump Gediminas Truskauskas - 200m Four of these athletes are Lithuanian record holders.

I forgot to update that Mykolas Alekna threw the second furthest distance of all time in the 1.75kg Discus Throw at 69.77. It was only 36 centimetres shorter than the World Youth record by Mykyta Nesterenko in 2008. Mykolas Alekna is scheduled to take part in both the U20 championships being held this year.

Lithuanian women's team has officially expanded to three. During the last year, the documents have been finalised behind the scenes, similarly to Paulauskaitė, Žurauskaitė also had a Lithuanian grandparent.

Day 2 of the Lithuanian Athletics Championships highlights: Tomas Keršulis is one of the highlights again, breaking his PB by 0.46 seconds and finishing 200m in 21.00, taking second place and becoming the 18th Lithuanian to qualify to the European U23 championships. In the men's javelin, Edis Matusevičius reached a SB of 83.53, he's been throwing a little bit further in every competition, hoping for the best in the Olympics. For the women, Modesta Justė Morauskaitė won the 400m. Hurdles convincingly, she still has one additional start this year to attempt qualifying to the Olympic Games, she needs less than a second and she already scrathed off 1.5 seconds from her PB this season. There were some tense moments in the high jump where Airinė Palšytė took three attempts at 1.96, which were unsuccessful and she finished with 1.93. She might qualify through the rating system though. The Triple jump battle was won by Dovilė Kilty this time with a 13.89. She would easily qualify through the rating system, but there are already 32 women with a qualifying mark, so Dovilė has only one chance next week to get the qualifying mark for the Olympic Games. She had qualified for Rio in 2016, but missed it due to being pregnant. Lastly, Liveta Jasiūnaitė won the javelin throw with a 60.79, she has been throwing over 60 metres consistently now and consistency is going to be key for qualifying for that Olympic final.

That is widely spread so that the horses wouldn't get any ideas of overruling our society.

If you have ever watched modern pentathlon before, you should fully well know that horses are our mortal enemies here in Lithuania. We don't ride them, they ride us.

Day 1 of the Lithuanian Athletics Championships highlights: Tomas Keršulis was not known to nearly everyone in the stadium this evening, he started in the slowest heat of 400m and blew away the competition and everybody questioned the time posted on the clock. Nobody was able to beat his time in the faster heats and he became a Lithuanian champion in his very first competition in Lithuania. (he lives and trains in USA) 3000m. Steeplechase was lucky today for Giedrius Valinčius, who ran under 9 minutes and qualified to the European U23. It is the final chance to qualify to U23, the U20s still have an additional week of competitions. Adrijus Glebauskas was aiming for the Olympic qualification mark in the high jump, but eventually he got stuck on 2.31 (3rd attempt looked good). He won the championship with a 2.29 jump, it might be good enough to sneak him through the rating system. Highlight was the Discus Throw for men, where Gudžius without question won with a rather humble 67.21. What stole the attention of everyone was that Mykolas Alekna decided to take part in the competition throwing the senior discus (he only did that once last year). His best throw was 63.52, he became the 8th best thrower in Lithuanian history, broke the Lithuanian 19yo record and took the WL in his age group. His older brother Martynas came in 3rd with a 58.26 and of course during the medal ceremony, it was Virgilijus Alekna that awarded the medals. Nothing too crazy on the women's side. Urtė Bačianskaitė qualified to the U23 in shot put, she had failed to qualify in heptathlon and focused on the shot put instead. Beatričė Juškevičiūtė also qualified in the 100m Hurdles for U23, but she'll start in heptathlon. Everything interesting happened in the discus, where Ieva Zarankaitė broke her PB after an abyssmal season. It was the first time this year that she threw above 60 metres and her score was 62.08, which might help her qualify through rating. Second was Zinaida Sendriūtė with a competitive 59.51. Finally, Paulina Stuglytė, born in 2004, took the 3rd place with a 48.91. She broke the Lithuanian 16yo record, but was 9cm too short to a U20 World Champ qualifying mark, but she has qualified to the European U20 already earlier this month. I'll come back to this tomorrow, Airinė Palšytė, Edis Matusevičius, Liveta Jasiūnaitė, Gediminas Truskauskas and a triple jump battle between Kilty and Zagainova are the things to watch tomorrow.

With this relay fiasco, feels that we're staying in the 2nd league. We can't afford to collect 0 points in more than one competition

Greta Karinauskaitė with a monstrous 20 second PB, Lithuanian U23 record, 3rd best 3000m Steeplechase performance in Lithuanian history and 10th best U23 time right now from Europe.

Omg, this is so embarrassing, Zinaida Sendriūtė threw 48 metres in the discus. I don't even know how that one was possible, because she hasn't had anything worse than the 55-56m range during competitions and she was even throwing close to 60 earlier this week.

Wow, I think that might've been a nice PB for Greta Karinauskaitė. IF ONLY SOMEBODY PANNED THE FUCKING CAMERA TOWARDS THE CLOCK. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Anyways, she wasn't too far off from the Dane, so it might be an improved Lithuanian U23 record.

I really didn't imagine that anything could absolutely kill my excitement for this competition, but it's really really dead. Not even sad that I won't be able to watch tomorrow. Shot Put results are all NM as well Women's Discus, who knows???

Don't count us out yet, we are nearly done with most of our trash disciplines.

I kinda stopped watching, because you don't even see anything. Gonna return to see how Greta does in the steeplechase and the relays.

Gabija Galvydytė broke her 800m PB by more than two seconds and she is inside the qualifying mark for U23 championships, her second qualification after 400m. hurdles last year.

Jeeeez, Šerkšnienė really died on that last 50

I was really worried there for Bertašius, can't remember when he risked running a 1500m this slow.

Weird schedule, there's going to be a half an hour of nothing :/

Don't make fun of her, at least she's out there, trying to do something. We don't need to be rushing her. She has enough pressure on her shoulders right now.