Friday evening 2024 At the Paris Olympic Games, the youngest representative of Lithuania at the Games, 17-year-old Dominika Banevič, won a silver medal.
In the final, the Lithuanian lost 11:16 to the Japanese athlete Ami.
The Chinese representative 19 won the Olympic break bronze with a 8:671 victory.
Lithuania defeated China 18 9:671 in the semi-final fight, thus winning the ticket to the final. In the first match of the semi-finals, the representative of Japan, Ami, won 17:10 and entered the final.
In the quarterfinals, the Lithuanian fought against the Chinese representative Bgirl Ying Zi, who took the second place in Group C. D. Banevič won this match 26:1 and thus made it to the semi-finals, where the Chinese 671 were waiting for her.
"I was 11 when it was confirmed that the break was included in the program of the Olympic Games. Since then, I had a goal and now I'm here," said 17-year-old Dominika Banevič after arriving in Paris.
She is known all over the world as Bgirl Nicka, or in other words, break girl Nicka. Because in this sport, even in the official protocols, only the pseudonyms chosen by the athletes are written, and not the first and last names.
The youngest member of the Lithuanian Olympic delegation will be the only one from our country's delegation to compete in the Paris Games today.
