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I thought it was Vanagaitė that was going to qualify as the first Lithuanian Olympic rider

Realistically: Rūta Meilutytė - 100m Breaststroke Danas Rapšys - 200m / 400m Freestyle Mykolas Alekna - Discus Throw Laura Asadauskaitė - Modern Pentathlon Dominika Banevič - Breaking Donata Karalienė/Dovilė Rimkutė - Double Sculls Could have a fighting chance: Andrius Gudžius - Discus Throw Liveta Jasiūnaitė - Javelin Throw Edis Matusevičius - Javelin Throw Basketball 3x3 Men & Women Men's K2 500 Men's K4 500 Men's C2 500 Men's Pair (rowing) Women's Pair (rowing) Women's Single Sculls (rowing) Ieva Serapinaitė/Gintarė Venčkauskaitė - Modern Pentathlon Kotryna Teterevkova - 200m Breaststroke Yesssss, this is the likeliest chance for Lithuania to have their best Olympics of our lifetime, but Danas Rapšys needs to not get injured, Meilutytė needs to decide if she even participates. Modern Pentathlon is unpredictable, so Alekna, Banevič and our rowing duo look likeliest for medals, because they had very good results in multiple important championships leading up to the Olympic Games. We most often than not have medals in canoe sprint, so I had to put the guys there, our other rowing teams are strong enough to challenge. Basketball 3x3's won a couple of important tournaments and medalled at others, Gudžius, Jasiūnaitė and Matusevičius are a bit reliant on their competition underperforming, or them overperforming. Serapinaitė and Venčkauskaitė have a lot of credentials and have been at the top, but you never know with MP. Teterevkova showed promise with bronze at the Europeans, she started training at the US and has an amazing training partner now, so she might even improve more during the year.

Damn, I'm voting so late, going to be tough staying quiet

Finally, the retirement of Gabrielė Leščinskaitė was officially announced on our Biathlon social media. This is her first actual retirement, although she retired like 6 or 7 times before in her head, but was persuaded to come back every time

Goodbye super sprint, may you not be ever missed ever again.

Well, this is an interesting turn of events

Lithuania won a football match. That's it. That's the post. Seems that the impossible can become possible.

When I chose our song, I immediately got worried for its chances since I thought some people would prefer listening through Spotify So I appreciate this, I believe it's the fourth Lithuanian entry that's not on Spotify and sadly one of those is "Song About Love" by Leon Somov & Jazzu

Some brutal second round judging later and I'm down to 16. Top 2 seem immovable, anything can happen between 3 and 16 though.

Nah, Lithuania does not approve of a Spotify playlist, because that song is only on Youtube

With the amount of time that I don't have this month, I'd really wish the average song quality was a bit lower, so it would be easier to rank

Going to listen to Israeli song before I start round 2, of course

23 songs survived my first round of judging. I think this is the contest where I feel like I recognised the most artists & songs than ever before, so a slight disappointment, since that leaves less space for me to discover something new from all of these countries, but otherwise, quality seems to be present and it will be a tough judging effort. I might have a top 3, but 4-20 seems like a blur and I definitely need to listen more.

Some very important national funding as well, if you manage to place high enough.

April 2012 for me, so we got here nearly at the same time

31 nations in right now, if I didn't lose track. @Glen and @Ionoutz24 could still possibly appear, they don't tend to miss TISC. @Federer91 and Bulgaria missing also seems unusual. And with so many users from India, you'd expect someone would come through to represent. I always wonder though why new users seem disinterested in this event and we don't usually see newcomers often :/

This is definitely a PR trick from the Slovak delegation, to get more eyes on their song as people attempt to open it on Youtube.

It isn't. I just got educated, because I really believed that the Kaunas center is the more modern one It's even better for me, since I live in Vilnius now anyways.

Well, I honestly thought that the best one was the new one in Nemuno sala, at Kaunas

HUGE news for Lithuanian swimming. Vilnius is going to host the 2024 European Junior Swimming Championships. It's the very first time that Lithuania is hosting a prestigious swimming event and we definitely have amazing infrastructure to host it in Kaunas as well, so I was surprised to see Vilnius win the bid. Definitely going to be there if I don't have work on those days. Also, our junior swimming has been improving immensely, so this is going to be an amazing push for our athletes + Plytnykaitė will still be a junior, so medals are also a decent possibility The very first swimming competition in Lithuania was held back in 1924, so it will be the 100 year anniversary of Lithuanian swimming as well as the 50th European Junior championships as well.

I think my Estonian and Latvian duplicates would struggle, unless it was the Annual TISC

I feel attacked that I'm tagged in this. You want me to choose a better song or something?

The federation took their time with the 2nd day results. Lithuanian Summer Biathlon championships at Maduona, Latvia - Mass Start results: W 10 km 1. Sanita Bulina LAT 1+3+0+0 2. Annija Sabule LAT 0+1+1+0 +48.2 3. Lidija Žurauskaitė LTU 1+3+2+1 +1:39.0 5. Judita Traubaitė 3+3+2+1 +4:20.0 6. Sara Urumova 2+1+0+0 +5:17.4 M 12.5 km 1. Vytautas Strolia LTU 1+1+0+0 2. Tomas Kaukėnas LTU 0+0+1+3 +53.8 3. Maksim Fomin LTU 1+2+2+0 +1:22.5 4. Karol Dombrovski LTU 1+1+1+2 +1:25.7 7. Jokūbas Mačkinė LTU 3+1+0+2 +3:07.7 8. Stepan Terentjev LTU 3+2+0+2 +5:57.0 Other notable Lithuanian results: M22 1. Nikita Čigak LTU 2+0+3+1 2. Darius Dinda LTU 2+2+2+1 +16.4

I also join in on these song announcements with a song from Monika Liu, our Eurovision 2022 representative. LITHUANIA Monika Liu - Hello

I think I'm going with the R&B route this time and not the alternative options. One of the bands that I wanted to showcase has three amazing songs released in 2023, felt like a waste to give them away now, but I'm also afraid that there will be like 10-15 other amazing options for the upcoming contest