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- Conflicts, players sent home, but ultimately – triumph: the journey of Lithuanian basketball players at the 1996 Atlanta Games
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- Angry drivers and dissatisfied foreigners: what prices Palanga greeted 30 years ago
15min, based on publications from newspapers published in 1996, tells where else, if not at the seaside, Lithuanians vacationed back then.
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Among such famous people who decided to vacation not in Lithuanian seaside resorts were the poet Marcelijus Martinaitis and basketball player Arvydas Sabonis, who returned to his homeland from the Atlanta Olympic Games, with his family.
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However, what remained behind the scenes of the Olympic Games held in Atlanta and what intrigues accompanied our basketball team, you can read here.
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