FIBA announced that the coach will not be allowed to engage in any coaching activities until October 27, 2030. The reason is violations of the Code of Conduct, covering ethics and integrity principles, as well as FIBA protection policy breaches and failure to fulfill protection obligations. The investigation lasted since last March.
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R. Grigas will be able to return to coaching at the age of 67.
The strategist will also have to pay a fine of 12 thousand Swiss francs and attend FIBA-approved inappropriate behavior prevention courses.
We remind you that the 15min editorial team wrote about R. Grigas’s inappropriate behavior with the Lithuanian women’s national team players.
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After this decision, former trainee of the coach A. Pašajevaite reacted.
We present her “Facebook” post:
The truth has ultimately triumphed. Congratulations to every basketball player, girl, woman, and myself among them, who dared to speak out loudly. Today is a great day for each of us who was in Grigas’s sight. The article that brought me so much peace this morning only once again shows what it means to be heard.
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And no, we women are not exaggerating, not dramatizing, not taking it too personally. We are just loudly broadcasting how we feel!
I remember how Mindaugas (Balčiūnas) invited me to the LKF house and, hearing about my situation in the club season, said nothing promising. Only as he was leaving with a smile, he said that I should drink more green tea – it helps to calm down.
In conclusion, I want to invite you, Balčiūnas, to have some green tea in the capital of Dzūkija. I believe you need it more now, knowing the current issues in men’s basketball, and here is also the disqualification of a friend… and that strange internal investigation denying his inappropriate actions. Dirty uncles play dirty games.
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A. Pašajevaite worked together with R. Grigas in the 2022-2023 Kaunas “Aisčiai-LSMU” team.
