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I was really scared when I saw how overwhelmingly impactful the topic of religion is in the United States. I've watched this Youtube video recently discussing LGBT and the conversation was completely derailed by Catholicism. 
 
Here in Lithuania, older generation is religious mostly, but I personally don't know anybody going to church on a Sunday. Although, Catholicism is really used as a scapegoat to hate on all of the minorities in the country, because people don't want to take accountability of their own hateful feelings/thoughts and choose to hide behind the 'Bible said so'... 
 
It's really annoying how you can be an absolute awful prick just because of your religious beliefs. 

Well, it's actually a word in Lithuanian with which we would refer to a Macedonian citizen - makedonas or makedonietis. 

Well, Lithuanians today were quite slow, but we're in the top 20 I guess?
 
Don't know what to expect from this season, to be honest.
 
Probably going to be the Strolia show all over again.
 
If Leščinskaitė didn't retire, we would have had a women's relay, our first one after Rasimovičiūtė's retirement. But alas, there'll only be three World cup level women from us, since junior Kresik is out as well and Urumova is not going to be quick enough to get below 150 points. 

Gonna be more than 20 at the end of the day, i'm sure
 
Though slight surprise with no points from Italy.

I got my templates.
 
I'm leaving home though for like 6-ish hours, but should be back in time for my lovely 3 A.M. timeslot  

I got my templates.
 
I'm leaving home though for like 6-ish hours, but should be back in time for my lovely 3 A.M. timeslot  

Official Announcement
 
The opening ceremony will held on Saturday (November 18) at 11:00 AM local time. The Grand Final will be held the following day on Sunday (November 19) starting at 09:00 AM. The team draw will be held on Friday. I willuse a website to assign pairs, and then announce the results (unless anyone else has a better idea).
 
There will be no (or very few) tables and scoreboards used this edition. Nonetheless, I will send juries a themed set of votes to post during the Grand Final. 

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. 

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. 

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  

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. 

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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

@heywoodu I decided against it after realizing one, or potentially more, entries weren't available on Spotify. I would advise creating a playlist if you want one, but there won't be an "official" one since it doesn't seem fair.

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

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