2024-07-24 00:02:20
“To this day, I do not have and never had such information. I don’t know if it’s true or slander”, said the 65-year-old head of LKF.
From July 2 to 7, the Olympic selection tournament was held in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, where six national teams competed for the only ticket to the Paris Olympics.
The team of Kazios Moskvytis, who fought hard, still managed to reach the finals, but in the decisive match they lost to Puerto Rico 68:79 and lost the opportunity to compete in the games.
This failure led to the fact that the Lithuanian national team will watch the Olympic basketball tournament as a spectator for the second time in a row.
After the fiasco last week, the Lithuanian Basketball Federation (LKF) officially announced that they are going their separate ways with the strategist K. Maksvytis.
Andrius Tapinas, the host of the Laisvės TV program “Laikykitės Ten”, which appeared at the end of last week, also added fuel to the fire. He assured that he had his own sources who assured that the Lithuanian basketball players “had activities” outside the court as well.
“The tears may have dried up, but the resentment still remains. Well, what are you going to do? Although, based on my sources in Puerto Rico, for example, I will say that maybe just less was needed elbows before the game and smash the TVs in the hotel.
And here, unfortunately, our screenwriters don’t have a story about “running and writhing less”, on the other hand, it’s a great opportunity to remember that there are other sports besides basketball,” the 47-year-old journalist said during the show.
LKF president V. Gedvilas tried to answer these kind of accusations.
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– How do you react to the accusations? – lrytas.lt asked V. Gedvila.
– I really did not have and do not have such information that is presented. You know, there are always a lot of such rumors-rumors. And about the basketball players, and about me.
But that doesn’t mean they’re right. People can talk, but it is important that it is not slanderous. And for this moment, I cannot say that the information is correct.
– Are you confirming that there were no “flickers” in the hotel?
– I did not live in the same hotel with the national team. I can’t say anything. I say that I did not have and do not have any information that something wrong was being done. And I don’t believe that…
The men came to the Olympic qualifying tournament, they all knew what they were driving, it couldn’t even be that they were breaking the sports regime. I know all the basketball players, all of them are adequate, all of them are really sincere, so such hints are incomprehensible.
– How will you deal with existing information?
– There is a team leader, a director… Of course, after such kind of accusations, we will talk to the team leader Valdemarus Chomičius, the director Žydrūnas Vilenčiks – we will ask if there were any incidents. But I don’t believe there was anything like that.
– But if the facts are confirmed?
– At the beginning, let’s talk about whether it was at all. Isn’t it just talk… This situation has another point. After all, men do not come to the national team and play for money – if we start condemning and blaming the players, then no one will want to come to the team and help them get tickets to the European or world championships. I don’t believe it, but we’ll explain.
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2024-07-24 00:02:20