| Olé!
22 August 2004
Just in case you were NOT watching the Olympics
tonight... Lithuania BEAT the USA in basketball!!!
That means, that Lithuania wins the group, and the USA MUST beat
Angola (not that that should be a problem since Angola is 0-4) in
order to even advance.
It's nearly 4:30 in the morning, and I can STILL hear people out
celebrating... I'm still in shock, I won't really believe it until
I read the news tomorrow. It's simply amazing. Frankly, I thought
Lithuania played like they expected to loose, and I think they were
a bit lucky to win. Anyway, this wasn't the gold medal game. We're
still several games away from that, and we can expect to face the
USA again.
I was in tears as the clock went from 5 seconds to 0... I thought
for sure there would be a couple more baskets and we would end up
so close, but still so far.
When 0 hit, I couldn't even see the tv because the whole bar was
on their feat. We hugged, we kissed, champagne was opened, or should
I say... Lithuanian sparkling white wine... we cried.
Walking out into the street, everyone was there. They carried Lithuanian
flags, they stood out of sunroofs, and they rocked cars as they
drove by. They sang, the chanted... Lietuva!!! Lietuva!!! Lietuva!!!
...and somewhere in the distance, I can still hear, "ole, ole
ole ole.... ole, ole..."
As I said, it's not over yet, but man we have had a good start!
Also, Lithuania won it's first medal tonight... a silver in the
women't hepthalon... Sweden won it's first too (and probably only),
the gold.
In all other events, particularly swimming and gymnastics (props
to Carly Patterson on the all-around gold), I cheer for the USA
and Lithuania.
But in basketball, it's ALL Lithuania!!!
Eina eina!!!
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