The price of victory - bronze bananas
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Lithuania already has a ticket to Olympic Games in Peking. The basketball team won against the team from Greece in Eurobasket 2007 "little final" and came back with bronze medals. The game, which once was promoted by Lithuanians in America, still has the great number of fans at home. Basketball is the second religion in Lithuania. It can be said that for somebody it's even the first. Lithuanians are really crazy about that game and winning medals for them is a point of honour.
The first medal, which, by the way, was golden, Lithuanians won in Eurobasket 1937, and waiting for another one didn't take long - they were the best in 1939 too. Unfortunately The Second World War and ocupations erased the name of Lithuania from the basketball map. It appeared there again only before the independence. In 2003 European gold was shining in the hands of Lithuanians.
Basketball is the most popular game in Lithuania, that is why everybody is waiting the maximum results and medals from players. In 2005 Lithuania was only the seventh in Europe and medals from this champion were needed as air.
Basketball and it's fans are two elements which can't simply exist without one another. And it was clear in Eurobasket 2007 - fans from Lithuania comprised the second largest group in arenas of Spain just after the Spaniards one. About 2 thousand Lithuanian fans were watching matches there.
After this Eurobasket the leader of Lithuanian fans Sekla ("Seed") became known not even in Lithuania. 
He appeared in a scolding with a Spanish policeman (the fans said that the police didn't want to let them inside because their national flag was too large as were their drums), the policeman cut his head open with truncheon (it is simply called "banana" in Lithuania). More than few papers of different countries payed attention to it.
So this is how artist-caricaturist Ramūnas Vaitkus imagines the story..
* we've got Spanish bananas and bronze
And these are the first moments after Lithuania won against Greece.
Indrė Kumpikevičiūtė
on 17-09-2007 By Indre - Community affairs
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Die erste Medaille, die durch die Art und Weise war, golden, Litauer gewann Basketball-Europameisterschaft 1937, und das Warten auf einen anderen nicht lange dauern - sie waren die besten im Jahre 1939 zu. Leider Der Zweite Weltkrieg und ocupations gelöscht, der Name von Litauen aus der Basketball-Landkarte. Es schien, gibt es erst wieder vor der Unabhängigkeit. Im Jahr 2003 Europäische Gold glänzte in den Händen der Litauer.
Basketball ist das populärste Spiel in Litauen, deshalb ist jeder wartet die maximale Ergebnisse und Medaillen von den Spielern ist. Im Jahr 2005 wurde Litauen nur die siebte in Europa und Medaillen aus dieser Meister wurden als Luft benötigt.
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