{"id":369307,"date":"2019-05-15T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=369307"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:10:27","slug":"ruta-meilutyte-not-among-8-on-lithuania-world-championship-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ruta-meilutyte-not-among-8-on-lithuania-world-championship-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruta Meilutyte Not Among 8 on Lithuania World Championship Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has selected eight swimmers to participate in the 2019 World Championships, but <strong>Ruta Meilutyte<\/strong> is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>She has been in the news for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ruta-meilutyte-facing-potential-doping-suspension-for-testing-accessibility-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anti-doping violations<\/a> in regard to accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>Ruta Meilutyte missed three anti-doping tests in a 12-month period, which violates FINA\u2019s anti-doping policy. She is waiting to find out the punishment for the rule violation, but it is likely at least a one-year ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter already missing three tests, she was checked by the (anti-doping controller), this time they found her, took samples, and as far as I know, the tests were negative. Rather, we do not have the information that the tests were positive, which probably means they were negative,\u201d Lithuania coach <strong>Emil Vaitkaitis<\/strong> told <em>lrt.lt<\/em>, a Lithuanian news site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The rut was a brief explanation that everything happened because of its negligent filling, and so on. I would like to point out that she is not trying to find foolish excuses or to create stories about why this happened. I think it shows the athlete&#8217;s maturity or responsibility for his actions. This may be one of the mitigating circumstances for disqualification,\u201d Vaitkaitis told the site.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The World Championships are July 12-28 in Gwangju, South Korea.<\/p>\n<h3>2019 World Championships Roster:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Men<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Giedrius Titenis<\/strong> \u2013 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Simonas Bilis<\/strong> \u2013 50 free, 100 free<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Danas Rapsys<\/strong> \u2013 200 free, 400 free, 200 back<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Andrius Sidlauskas<\/strong> \u2013 100 breast, 200 breast<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Deividas Margevicius<\/strong> \u2013 100 fly<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Tadas Duskinas<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0 50 fly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Ugne Mazutaityte<\/strong> \u2013 200 back<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Kotryna Tetervkov<\/strong>a \u2013 50 free, 100 free, 200 breast<\/p>\n<p>Read the full lrt report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/sportas\/10\/1058616\/plaukiku-vadas-vaitkaitis-nededa-tasko-meilutytes-karjeroje-ji-tikrai-nera-isnaudojusi-visu-savo-galimybiu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has selected eight swimmers to participate in the 2019 World Championships, but Ruta Meilutyte is not one of them. 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