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| sutty68 |
Posted on 03-05-2019 16:24
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Got a feeling its going to be a yates victory  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-05-2019 18:13
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Good job grabbing the KOM with Quintana and good luck for Suisse, maybe one or both of the Izagirres can do well.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 03-05-2019 21:13
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They'll probably keep spending time together though. 
They should both be in decent form already ahead of Le Tour, so that's definitely possible. 
valverde321 wrote:
Good job grabbing the KOM with Quintana and good luck for Suisse, maybe one or both of the Izagirres can do well.
Thank you. Ion just came back after some time off and he'll probably deal with some fatigue on the first stages. As for Gorka, he's mainly serving as a domestique in the autumn of his career. I'm sure he'll remain a good support in his very last races as a pro.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 03-05-2019 22:07
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Only recently, I stumbled upon the fact that the Ecuadorian rider I have in my team, is actually riding for Education First irl now. Jonathan Klever is actually Jonathan Klever Caicedo Cepeda, which means Klever isn't his surname, it's Caicedo. For that reason I edited the DB. Don't be surprised when this name pops up seemingly out of nowhere.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 06-05-2019 08:47
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 Tour de Suisse (2.UWT)
 Stage 1 :: 6.3 kms
The city of Genève hosted the entirely flat 6.3 km prologue. We'd never appear anywhere near the top of the time table.
Brazilian champion Cortes was our best man on the day, yet he still finished 41" slower than the winner. It was Michael Matthews who blew the opposition away, as everyone bar Dumoulin lost 12" or more.
| 1 |  | Michael Matthews | Team Dimension Data | 7'55" | | 2 |  | Tom Dumoulin | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 2" | | 3 |  | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | + 12" | | 4 | | Tom Bohli | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 |  | Taylor Phinney | Team Sky | + 13" | | 6 |  | Mads Würtz Schmidt | Team ColoQuick-Cult | + 16" | | 7 |  | Michal Kwiatkowski | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 17" | | 8 |  | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 19" | | 9 |  | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Lars Boom | Team Sky | + 20" | | … | | | | | | 77 |  | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes  | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 41" |
 Stage 2 :: 184.2 kms
The second stage had a predictable course. It did take long for a breakaway though. It had taken so much out the escapees to go clear, that there was only one left after the KoM sprint. Gorka Izagirre bridged the gap to Lotto's Kenny Goossens, but both got caught inside the last 10 kilometers.
The bunch sprint got a surprising winner in Romain Cardis, who narrowly got the better of Marcel Kittel. For the Frenchman it was his biggest win so far, spending a second stint with (Groupama-)FDJ. For us, Alberto Bayarri's 7th place was a pleasant surprise.
| 1 | | Romain Cardis | Groupama - FDJ | 3h53'43" | | 2 |  | Marcel Kittel | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 |  | Kenneth Van Rooy | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 |  | Eduard-Michael Grosu | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 5 |  | Alexander Kristoff | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | | Michael Matthews | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 7 |  | Alberto Bayarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | s.t. | | 8 |  | Andrea Guardini | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 9 | | Elia Viviani | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | | Zico Waeytens | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
 Stage 3 :: 160.9 kms
First test in the mountains. We didn't know what to expect with regards to leaders' form. Today would decide who we'll be riding for during the rest of the race.
Two climbs in, Francesc Palmero attacked the pack to join the break. Teklehaimanot and him were the strongest and survived until Simon Yates' acceleration. The Brit got away with a few men, some of which were dropped. He beat the others for the stage and the yellow jersey.
Eder Chávarri kept up with the E3 on Col de Chasseral. He had a hard time when the sprint was opened, but he clung on to the back of the group. He came home in 12th place.
| 1 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | 4h34'10" | | 2 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Rafal Majka | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 27" | | 5 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | + 1'49" | | 6 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'40" | | 7 |  | Robert Kiserlovski | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 8 | | Edward Ravasi | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 9 | | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Diego Rubio | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. |
Tour de Suisse 2020 GC after stage 3 | 1 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | 8h36'16" | | 2 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | + 4" | | 3 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 22" | | 4 | | Rafal Majka | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 38" | | 5 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | + 1'56" | | 6 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 2'31" | | 7 | | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Dimension Data | + 2'39" | | 8 | | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | + 2'41" | | 9 | | Diego Rubio | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 2'49" | | 10 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 3'05" |
 | Simon Yates |  | Daniel Teklehaimanot |  | Simon Yates |  | Danilo Ghilardi |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 06-05-2019 09:39
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A strong field here and good job from Eder Chávarri to hold a top 10 in the GC after the first mountains.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 06-05-2019 16:49
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Been a difficult start for the team in Switzerland but hopefully that will change by the end of the race  |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 06-05-2019 19:52
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Tamijo wrote:
A strong field here and good job from Eder Chávarri to hold a top 10 in the GC after the first mountains.
True, many good climbers chose to race in Switzerland this year. Very happy with how Chávarri performed on the first mountain stage. With Izagirre struck by fatigue, it might be a unique chance to show he's capable of serving as a leader himself.
sutty68 wrote:
Been a difficult start for the team in Switzerland but hopefully that will change by the end of the race
The prologue as always going to hurt us, but we've already bounced back nicely.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 09-05-2019 21:05
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Tour de Suisse (2.UWT)
Stage 4 :: 111.1 kms 
The short fourth stage would lead the riders to Basel, over a mainly flat course. At first, we couldn't get a man inside the break.
Cortes did bridge, but that he paid for after the only climb of the day. He lost contact close to the start of the local circuit.
The very high pace inside the final kilometers caused for some sprinters to break clear. The breakaway competed for the stage win with them, but none of them could beat fresher legs. Michael Matthews denied Zico Waeytens on the last 50 meters.
GC wise, the most noteworthy thing was a crash in the descent after the mountain sprint. Yellow jersey Simon Yates and Diego Rubio were involved. The latter retiring made Chávarri move up into 9th.
| 1 | | Michael Matthews | Team Dimension Data | 2h23'05" | | 2 | | Zico Waeytens | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 3 | | Caleb Ewan | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 4 | | Marcel Kittel | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 5 | | Matteo Trentin | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 6 | | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 7 | | Sven Flå | Team ColoQuick-Cult | s.t. | | 8 | | Miguel Bryon | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 9 | | Alberic Crapa | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10 | | Nacer Bouhanni | Team Dimension Data | s.t. |
Stage 5 :: 202.8 kms
Gonçalves sat in the break on stage 5, the longest one. Their gap quickly grew to 8', but the peloton had many kilometers left to cut it down.
Our man was the strongest on a bump 20 kms from the line, but the pack had already come too close. The 40" gap wouldn't suffice.
Kittel opened the chaotic sprint powerfully, but Matthews' timing was exquisite. The Australian made it two in a row.
| 1 | | Michael Matthews | Team Dimension Data | 4h23'31" | | 2 | | Marcel Kittel | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 3 | | Eduard-Michael Grosu | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4 | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5 | | Romain Cardis | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 6 |  | Peter Sagan | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 7 | | Caleb Ewan | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 8 | | Jasper Bovenhuis | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 9 | | Romain Guyot | CCC Team | s.t. | | 10 | | Elia Viviani | Astana Pro Team | s.t. |
Stage 6 :: 176 kms
It was the climber's move again on stage six, the first of three consecutive mountain stage.
For us, only Chávarri made the cut on the cat.1 Sattelegg Pass. A lot of big names were missing from the GC group that remained.
Pardo's acceleration on the cat.2 Ibergeregg Pass was too much for Eder. Only Sagan, Benoot and GC leader Simon Yates followed.
Sagan wiped the floor with the others in the sprint, securing his fourth win of the season.; Simon Yates did great business in the overall standings. Behind them, Chávarri rode to a 5th place and gained 3 spots in the GC. He's also the new wearer of the green young rider jersey.
| 1 | | Peter Sagan | Team Dimension Data | 4h22'35" | | 2 | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 3 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 4 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 1'22" | | 6 | | Lawson Craddock | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 7 | | Wout Poels | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | | Fabio Aru | Team Sky | + 2'24" | | 9 |  | Matej Mohoric | Team ColoQuick-Cult | s.t. | | 10 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. |
Tour de Suisse 2020 GC after stage 6 | 1 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | 19h45'47" | | 2 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | + 2'00" | | 3 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | + 2'32" | | 4 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 4'04" | | 5 | | Rafal Majka | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 4'20" | | 6 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 4'31" | | 7 | | Peter Sagan | Team Dimension Data | + 5'43" | | 8 | | Lawson Craddock | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 9 | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | + 6'05" | | 10 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 6'13" |
| Simon Yates | | Michael Matthews | | Simon Yates | | Eder Chávarri |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-05-2019 07:55
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Stage 4-5
Michael Matthews having some great days, the boys did good fighting in the breaks but sadly just to claim some TV time.
Stage 6
Chávarri again shows some nice form when things get tough. Top 5 now seems within reach if he keep this level.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 13-05-2019 13:40
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Tamijo wrote:
Stage 4-5
Michael Matthews having some great days, the boys did good fighting in the breaks but sadly just to claim some TV time.
Stage 6
Chávarri again shows some nice form when things get tough. Top 5 now seems within reach if he keep this level.
Not much could be done about Matthews indeed. Superb from him to win 3 stages here in Switzerland. Chávarri's showing great things as a leader here.
I hope he won't be alone too soon on the upcoming mountain stages. It's where he'll have to keep up nicely and gain time even, as he's destined to lose quite some time on the time trial.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 13-05-2019 13:45
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Stage 7 :: 151.5 kms 
The queen stage featured three high-altitude passes. We kept everybody back to support Eder as long as possible. The only GC man to sneak into the breakaway was Kiserlovski.
Near the top of the second climb, Kiserlovski had become the last survivor. He had been joined by KoM leader Wout Poels. Given the fact Kiserlovski and Poels were both behind Eder in the standings, we could only hope the pace would go up at some point.
When it did on the final climb, Poels had already left Kiserlovski behind, extending his lead to a dangerous extent for us. Eder kept the best climbers within range until near the top, but a new push from them kept him from catching up again.
Today's GC group consisted of Majka, Ghilardi (Eder's main rival for the young jersey), Simon Yates and Pardo. They would gain a lot of time on the others.
Poels rode solo to a great stage win. His gap of almost 5' also made him enter the top 10, passing Eder.
Our man finished outside the top 10, but together with most of his rivals. The long descent sadly had allowed solid time trialists to catch up with his group. He kept the -25 lead by a mere 5".
| 1 | | Wout Poels | Team Sky | 4h31'46" | | 2 | | Rafal Majka | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 4'54" | | 3 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4 | | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 5 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 6 | | Fabio Aru | Team Sky | + 6'03" | | 7 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | | Lawson Craddock | BORA - hansgrohe | + 6'41" | | 9 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | | Laurens De Plus | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. |
Stage 8 :: 130.6 kms
The last mountain stage was shorter and expected to be less selective than the previous one.
Ion Izagirre joined the breakaway, which was already caught halfway onto the HC San Bernardinopass. Though the pace was not crazy high, it was enough to expose GC 3rd Majka having his usual day off.
Adam Yates rode away with Landa and Ghilardi on the last climb, only to leave them and previous attacker David Per behind. Ghilardi getting dropped meant Chávarri would maybe be able to catch his rival again.
Adam Yates made it two in a row for his team. Unless someone wins tomorrow's time trial, it's going to be the very last victory while it's still called Team Sky.
His brother Simon came second and has the overall win as good as secured.
Eder couldn't get back to Ghilardi. Thanks to Majka's downfall, he did remain 7th. Even before the concluding stage, we could assume he'd finish there too...
| 1 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | 3h22'18" | | 2 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | + 49" | | 3 | | Wout Poels | Team Sky | s.t. | | 4 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 59" | | 5 | | Maxime Le Lavandier | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | s.t. | | 7 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | | David Per | Akros - Renfer SA | + 1'18" | | 9 | | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 2'07" |
Stage 9 :: 20.8 kms
This year's time trial was entirely flat. Just like in the prologue, all our of riders finished way down the field. Ion Izagirre was our fastest man and still lost 1'54" on the winner.
Mads Würtz Schmidt had the best time for a while and almost landed a huge stage win for ColoQuick. Jungels was the first to beat his time, after which Dumoulin secured a clear win.
| 1 | | Tom Dumoulin | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | 25'48" | | 2 | | Bob Jungels | BORA - hansgrohe | + 16" | | 3 | | Mads Würtz Schmidt | Team ColoQuick-Cult | + 17" | | 4 | | Taylor Phinney | Team Sky | + 23" | | 5 | | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | + 28" | | 6 | | Michal Kwiatkowski | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 30" | | 7 | | Tejay Van Garderen | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | + 32" | | 9 | | Mathias Van Gompel | Trek - Segafredo | + 35" | | 10 | | Casper Folsach | Team ColoQuick-Cult | + 36" |
Tour de Suisse 2020 Final overall standings | 1 | | Simon Yates | BORA - hansgrohe | 28h12'03" | | 2 | | Juan Andrés Pardo | Movistar Team | + 3'15" | | 3 | | Thibaut Pinot | Deceuninck - Quick Step | + 4'46" | | 4 | | Wout Poels | Team Sky | + 5'43" | | 5 | | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | + 6'39" | | 6 | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 7'26" | | 7 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa-RTPi Pro Team | + 9'15" | | 8 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | + 11'44" | | 9 | | Rafal Majka | Bahrain Merida Pro Team | + 12'14" | | 10 | | Fabio Aru | Team Sky | + 12'51" |
Tour de Suisse 2020 Jersey winners | Overall | Simon Yates | Bora - hansgrohe | | Points | Michael Matthews | Team Dimension Data | | Mountain | Wout Poels | Team Sky | | Young | Danilo Ghilardi | Team Dimension Data | | | | | Best team: | Team Sky | |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2019 17:52
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Well looks like Sutty's prediction came true with one of the Yates bros winning. I think 7th is a great result, and hopefully you can win a couple NCs and get some cool jerseys to wear.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2019 09:03
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Fine result from Chávarri especially considering that he was bound to lose time in the ITT.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 15-05-2019 09:42
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valverde321 wrote:
Well looks like Sutty's prediction came true with one of the Yates bros winning. I think 7th is a great result, and hopefully you can win a couple NCs and get some cool jerseys to wear.
It did. A deserved win too for Simon, as he won the first mountain stage and made the cut each time. Adam was never in the mix after his crash on stage 3.
Very pleased with 7th for Chávarri. Don't think he could have done better with only few support in the mountains.
NCs are always a fun time of the season, looking forward to race the American ones for the first time. Also, it's time to finally grab that Spanish jersey.
Tamijo wrote:
Fine result from Chávarri especially considering that he was bound to lose time in the ITT.
Guerreiro came fourth last year I think, and it's always nice to have a man challenge for a good spot.
Ion Izagirre wasn't good enough yet, but was good to witness Eder step up and secure his first major GC result on the WT level.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-05-2019 13:52
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Chávarri did well to maintain his top ten finish |
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Posted on 17-05-2019 13:03
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Sure he did. A nice prediction of the overall winner from you as well.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-05-2019 18:40
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Makes a change  |
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Posted on 18-05-2019 20:22
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Tour de France in Africa :: route revealed July 1st, 2020 Swartberg Pass will be the main difficulty of the 16th stage. We are just a couple weeks away from Le Grand Départ and finally ASO has publicly revealed the riders' whereabouts for the next few weeks.
Grand-Baie, a modest coastal village in the isle nation of Mauritius, will get the honour of hosting the 5.4 km prologue. Two more stages will allow the riders to explore the island further, before moving to the African mainland. A transfer will be made to Johannesburg, South Africa.The mainland's southernmost state will be the setting for most of the remaining stages. A relatively easy first week concludes with the first summit finish on the 1,945m Mariepskop, near the Mozambique border.
Week 2 kicks of with a mountain stage finishing in Mbabane, capital city of the neighbouring country Swaziland. Two easier stages later, back to back mountain stages await the riders. One of them takes the riders to the AfriSki resort. A last transfer brings what's left of the pack to the seaport city of Port Elizabeth. From there, a challenging last week in the west of the country starts. It features three hilly stages, two more summit finishes and two demanding time trials.
After 23 days, the race will conclude with a flat stage around Cape Town. Race maps and stage profiles are available below:
Spoiler Major credits to aidvanvn13 for the route and tsmoha for creating the stage for this race. Thank you both!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 19-05-2019 06:50
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