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Lithuania’s Christmas dream comes true

Dec 17, 2009
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

HE’LL BE BAC K?: Sarunas Jasikevicius, holding the Lithuanian tricolor high when his team received bronze medals in the European championship, EuroBasket 2007, in Spain.
Lithuania got its most desired Christmas gift. Last September, Lithuania was not among the top five national teams in EuroBasket 2009, and therefore had no right to participate in the 2010 World Championship because of such a poor result. Lithuania won once and lost five games to crash out of EuroBasket before the quarter-finals. However, on Dec. 12, after a meeting in Istanbul, the Central Board of FIBA, the international basketball federation, awarded with wild card entries to next year&rsq ...

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