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Lithuania at the Olympics

Lithuania first competed at the Olympic Games in 1924 (they had declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1918). They also sent a team to the 1928 Olympics. After the second world war, Lithuania became part of the Soviet Union, and participated in the Olympic games as part of the Soviet Union team from 1952 to 1988. They did not participate as an independent nation again until the 1992 Olympic Games.

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