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I'm late to the discussion, but I think that 3 swimmers from the same nation should be able to qualify to the semi-final and the final. If a country can do a clean sweep, it's a huge achievement and it is also a very rare achievement, but I'd like to have every country have the chance to compete for every medal in the discipline. It is also a huge advantage to the competitors from other countries when for example and Italian, Hungarian, Russian etc. swimmer has to give it their all in the morning session to qualify, while other athletes get to chill. I'd also be up for singles and doubles to get 2 boats in rowing and canoeing and limit it to 1 only for quadruples and eights, but my dreams are never going to be coming true.

Andrius Šidlauskas really overperformed here with that 6th place. Happy for him and hoping for the best in the 200m Breaststroke. Also, I wonder if Teterevkova is strong enough to get into Olympics as well. She got a PB by 0.01s in the swim-off this morning. Though if I remember correctly, she's more of a morning swimmer.

Nice, Šidlauskas snuck into the final Perhaps this good form will help him snag a 200m Breaststroke OQT

Oh jeez, Danas Rapšys is really looking wasted, I thought he would be an easy contender for a medal in the Olympics, now I'm not so sure anymore...

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RECORD ALERT Anyways, I decided to be a little bit fancy today with this extra presentation, but today Agnė Lukoševičiūtė broke her own hammer throw record by more than 5 metres. The new Lithuanian women's hammer throw record is now 66.09m and this was the first competition for Agnė after a long covid hiatus. It also got her a huge sum of Olympic qualification points and she is actually now on the radar of athletes that could have a chance at an Olympic quota and nobody really expected that it could happen this year, but if she keeps throwing around the 66 metre mark in a few other important competitions, she really has a good shot. Edit: also, forgot to mention that this was historically the weakest discipline for Lithuanian athletics of all time and could only have been compared to our pole vaulting. If we go back two-three years, the women's hammer throw record was below 50 metres.

Second time in history that Lithuania qualifies to the European Championships. The first time it was 1998, finishing 9th.

Everybody's acting like we won the entire championship, yet there are still mathematical equations of how every group has to play out for Lithuania to have a chance at passing as the 3rd best team in that same article

Yeah, the media is all crazy about it even today

So did they really just yeet Sanfilippo out of the team? First Oberhofer, then Runggaldier, then Gontier and now her.

Lithuania's athletics summer season is starting to get into gear. Today and tomorrow there's a long throw Lithuanian championships that is usually held in the middle of spring as the first event for discus, javelin and hammer throwers. Edis Matusevičius and Liveta Jasiūnaitė skipped the event, so there won't be anything promising tomorrow, but everybody took part in the discus and hammer. Women's Discus was really sub-par, because no one threw over 60 metres, but Andrius Gudžius season opener in the discus was 66.06. So that's a pretty decent start.

This poll is unfair, I love rowing and swimming equally

Lithuania just held a championship for swimmers born in 2007-2009 Žygimantas Tautvydas broke the U13 national records in 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle, Augustė Jakštaitė in 100m and 200m backstroke as well. So many age group records have fallen over the past couple of years and it's mostly credited to Meilutytė's Olympic run. The facilities improved a lot, the state started running a programme teaching children to swim and a fair few of them continue to do it professionally, so nearly every U13, U15 and U17 record has been bettered in the past decade. Really interesting how all of these swimmers will translate the results into senior competition.

Honestly, I couldn't care less about all of the team sports in and out of the Olympics and I'm usually not the biggest fan of relays in sports as well. Perhaps this feeling comes from the fact that I'm from a small country where you mostly get 1-2 good athletes per sport, so you never really produce that many competitive teams in anything. We never qualify anywhere apart from basketball, but even if we did, I much more prefer supporting individual athletes than I do teams, so I would definitely delete a sport or two to give additional Olympic quotas in some sports or add a few disciplines to sports that are already there.

In case anyone is interested in translating for themselves, this is from the POV of Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė. Fun fact, Drahotova after the European Championships started training together with Brigita. She added a lot of thoughts that everybody behind the scenes were talking about Drahotova's former coach and how untrustworthy he seemed as well as adding that everyone knew it was strange that an 18/19yo race-walker was posting these amazing results. She also talked about how she got the news from her coach that her training partner is suspended and that she is now the likely recipient of the bronze medal.

Didn't want to get ahead of myself, but now that the information is official: Anežka Drahotova, Czech 20km walking star is probably going to be suspended as she was tested positive for doping 12 days before the European Championships in 2018. Which would mean that Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė would be bumped up to bronze and Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė (already retired) would be up to 4th place in the championships. Test A was positive and test B is going to be examined at a further date, but seems like the results are almost set in stone.

Oh wow. The feeling of wonder got kinda smashed for me, when I just heard that Husavik was really modelled around "Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman. I had to listen to a cover of "Never Enough" by one of our possible clients in songwriting and I was like wait, this is not Husavik?

Loved Debbie's "You Take Me There". Scored 4th place from me in 2014. Don't give up on Czech music yet, there is a lot of beautiful music out there. I would've scored this one as well, but I couldn't listen past through those 21P parallels.

Jeez, even JC Stewart is Irish "I Need You To Hate Me" would've been an easy 12 pointer for me in this edition. I've listened to this song so many times and recently it even picked up everywhere on the Lithuanian radios, so that was a huge surprise for me. I was sharing a Top 15 for about 4 weeks with that song on one of the biggest Lithuanian radio stations

Scoreboard and logo creation are usually stuff that you can get help with. When I hosted, I got a lot of help extended to me to make sure everything runs smoothly.

Okay, so how many more victories will we have to give to @intoronto until we successfully peer pressure him into hosting the next TISC?

Anyways, congratulations to the podium, it was a very close and tough TISC. Pretty tragic turn of events for Lithuania with our best Netherlands cosplay finishing with three silver medals (and those three medals were more than half of our points) I'll have to think extra hard before entering a song in Lithuanian again, confidence going up and down like on a trampoline.

I can guarantee you that the next time that @OlympicIRL hosts TISC, he will remember this day and won't give a voting extension to @justony

Someone call an ambulance for @OlympicIRL. He's cancelling his Netflix subscription as we speak.

Oh no

Where can I leave a complaint that we weren't warned in the schedule about an hour long break before the final vote?