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The XXIX Olympic Games will be held on Mexico, Munich, Montreal, Moscow and Seoul 8–24 August 2008 in Beijing. Representatives and won 23 gold, 19 silver, and 15 bronze medals. of 28 sport events will compete for 302 medal In the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo and sets. Organisers expect that flags of as many Calgary the Lithuanians Algimantas Šalna was as 205 National Olympic Committees will be awarded a gold medal and Vida Vencienė earned carried in the Olympic opening parade ceremony. gold and bronze medals. Lithuania‘s flag will also be flapping among The idea to re-establish the Lithuanian them. Although China has been famous for its National Olympic Committee emerged in 1988. philosophy from the old times, the Olympic On December 11 of that year a congress of the movement philosophy has been alike during all Lithuanian sports federations, organisations and times – to dignify the body, spirit and intelligence representatives of the public was held in Vilnius and unite them into one entirety, to propagate and it re-founded the Lithuanian Olympic noble ideals, peace and freedom. organisation under the name the Lithuanian The National Olympic Committee under National Olympic Committee (LNOC). From the name of Lithuanian Sports League (LSL) that date the first attempts to recognise it on an became memorable for Lithuania – the discus was established in Lithuania on 2 December international scale have been started. Only on thrower Romas Ubartas earned a gold medal and 1923 in an extraordinary congress of LSL. The 11 November 1991 the International Olympic the basket-ball team was awarded a bronze medal then Statute of this organisation established a Committee (IOC) in Lausanne announced the for the first time in the history of the independent provision obligating the Central Committee of recognition of LNOC, rehabilitated Lithuania to Lithuania. The XXVII Olympic Games in the Lithuanian Sports League to organise the the international Olympic family and invited to Sydney were the most successful for Lithuania. Olympic movement in Lithuania. Lithuania‘s take part in the 1992 Olympic Games. In these Games the shot Daina Gudzinevičiūtė sportsmen made their début in the Summer In 1992 an independent delegation from and discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna won gold Olympic Games in 1924 in Paris. 13 sportsmen – Lithuania participated in the XVI Winter Olympic medals, cyclist Diana Žiliūtė, rowers Kristina 11 football players and 2 cyclists took part in these Games in Albertville and XXV Olympic Games Poplavskaja and Birutė Šakickienė as well as games. In four years time a début was made in in Barcelona. The Barcelona Olympic Games the men‘s basketball team were decorated with the Winter Olympic Games by the skater Kęstutis bronze medals. In the XXVIII Olympic Games in Bulota in Saint Maurice. During the interwar Athens in 2004, Virgilijus Alekna earned a second period Lithuania had 25 Olympians. They gold medal, and silver medals were presented to competed in football, cycling, boxing, track-and- the track-and-field athlete Austra Skujytė and field, weight lifting and skating contests. pentathlonist Andrejus Zadneprovskis. For the In the period 1952–1988 Lithuania‘s sportsmen first time in the Olympic Games history the could participate in the Olympic Games only as Lithuanian basketball players achieved a victory members of the USSR teams. 84 Lithuanian against the USA team. Unfortunately, they were athletes competed in the Summer Olympic left without any medals –dropped to the fourth Games in Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, place… 55086086 pekinopekino oolimpiadalimpiada lankstaslankstas E1E1 1 22007.11.27007.11.27 112:19:332:19:33 55086086 pekinopekino oolimpiadalimpiada lankstaslankstas E2E2 2 22007.11.27007.11.27 112:19:342:19:34.

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