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Posted on 08-03-2008 13:21
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Posted on 08-03-2008 13:22
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Posted on 08-03-2008 22:12
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July 21:  Le Tour de France – Stage 13 | Albi > Albi – 54 km
Stage Profile
Finally, after some quite dull stages, we’re back in the midst of the GC riders’ fight for the Tour win. Valverde is in a commanding lead right now, but Klöden and Sastre might do something about that today and especially Klöden might be able to cut vastly into Valverde’s advantage, considering his abilities as a time trialist versus Valverde’s. The course takes the riders on a 54 kilometres loop around Albi and the two intermediate timers are placed tactically at the top of two sharp hills. At first glance the route suits Cancellara perfectly, but I’m a bit worried that after the Alps he’s lost his good form and he might not be able to compete for the win today.
Two early good times were clocked by this year’s Paris-Roubaix Winner Magnus Bäckstedt and Britain’s Bradley Wiggings. They posted almost identical times on the first two intermediates with Bäckstedt holding a small advantage throghout, which he also managed to capitalize on as he took a 16 seconds lead over Wiggins at the finish line. But a lot of good time trialist were still to come and these times wouldn’t last long.
Bäckstedt and Wiggins posted early fast times as Bodrogi nor Lang could keep up with the Swede and the Brit.
Our first rider on the course was Haedo, but he wasn’t really interesting today so let’s skip forward to the one and only Fabian Cancellara. As we expected he didn’t looked very strong neither at the first nor at the second intermediate timer, where he was respectively 11 and 52 seconds off the pace of Ignatiev, who was the new leader. But somehow, in a fantastic effort, Fábian raced down the descend of the final hill and turned on his final engine at the flat part coming in to the finish, and so he managed to finish the last part of the course 1 minute and 1 seconds faster than Ignatiev to post a provisional best time, 9 seconds faster than Ignatiev. Great effort by Fabian.
Cancellara and Ignatiev was the next early duo to claim fast times as both of them relegated Wiggins and Bäckstedt to secondary positions.
A bit later two interesting CSC riders took off, namely Dave Zabriskie and Jens Voigt. Zabriskie put up a decent ride as he finished provisional 6th after the 54 kilometres, 1’27” off Thomas Dekker, who had taken over the lead from Cancellara, beating him by exactly one minute. Jens Voigt has been firing on all cylinders during this race and he also managed to pull of a great time as he was only 40 seconds off Dekker’s pace, which was enough for provisional 2nd with 21 riders to go. Moments later Rogers came racing over the line and claimed the new best time.
Zabriskie and Voigt showed off their time trial abilities as they fought with the best on today’s stage.
The two best time trial Aussies, Michael Rogers and Cadel Evans fought for the top ten today. And they both clocked decent times.
The next rider to take the lead was a bit surprising. It was Thomas Løvkvist who completed the course 34 seconds faster than Rogers. Markus Fothen ran another great stage as he finished 7th of the day and the U25 leader looks set to claim his first ever Tour de France Top Ten honour. Andreas Klöden took off some minutes after Fothen and he wanted the yellow jersey bad as he really put up an inspiring performance today. He was second at the first intermediate as well as the second, but apparently he had been watching Fabian as he completed the last bit of the course in a tremendous tempo to claim the lead and ultimatively the win as neither Sastre nor Valverde would get close to him. They might even get passed by the German?
Fothen and Klöden showed what German riders are made off as both of them did their very best on today’s stage.
Sastre vs. Valverde seemed the big matchup before today’s time trial, but it turned out to be slightly different. Really it was Sastre and Valverde vs. Klöden. The 2’55” Klöden was trailing Valverde before today seemed to be more than enough for both Valverde and Sastre to stay clear of the German, but it simply wasn’t. And it became very clear at the second intermediate, where Sastre had lost over 4 minutes on the German, plus he was trailing Valverde with some 40 seconds. This meant that Klöden was going to claim the leader’s jersey and shatter Sastre’s winning chances if he kept this enormous gap. But luckily he didn’t. Sastre redeemed himself after the second intermediate as he managed to finish the day 47 seconds faster than Valverde, meaning that the top three competition was going to stiffen a whole lot, with only 53 seconds between new race leader Klöden and 3rd in the GC, Carlos Sastre.
Despite a slow start Sastre managed to gain time on Valverde today, but he could do nothing about Klöden who raced his way to the lead of the Tour de France.
So all in all we’re quite happy with today’s result as we’re now only 53 seconds off the Tour lead, while we were 1’24” off before today. This time trial has really shook things up and I’m sure we’re in for a hell of a fight on the next three stages, which are all in the Pyrenees, meaning they are very mountainous. This is where Sastre really needs to come through, and I’m pretty confident he will. But let’s see.
Le Tour de France – Stage 13 | Result
1  Andreas Klöden ASTANA 1h14'42
2 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 10
3 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 44
4 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE + 47
5 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 58
6 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'13
7 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 1'17
8 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'27
9 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA + 1'29
10 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'56
11 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'57
12 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'58
13 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 2'02
14 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC + 2'24
15 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 2'43
16 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'50
17 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 2'58
18 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 3'02
19 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 3'03
20 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 3'11
22 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 3'30
25 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 4'03
43 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 4'59
52 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 5'34
113 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 7'35
 Le Tour de France – Stage 13 | GC
1 Andreas Klöden ASTANA 56h58'21
2 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 16
3 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC + 53
4 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE + 1'13
5 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 3'55
6 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 4'21
7 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 5'47
8 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA + 8'11
9 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 9'05
10 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 13'26
11 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 13'28
12 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 13'48
13 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 14'15
14 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 14'46
15 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 15'55
16 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 16'27
17 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 17'02
18 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 17'22
19 Chris Horner PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 18'02
20 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 18'46
22 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 20'34
24 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 26'23
28 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 30'42
32 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 36'54
48 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 46'09
60 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 57'39
112 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 1h38'39
 Le Tour de France – Stage 13 | Points Competition
1  Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 268
2 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM 254
3 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 247
4 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL 214
5 Oscar Freire RABOBANK 209
6 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 208
7 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE 205
8 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 150
9 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 136
10 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM 122
 Le Tour de France – Stage 13 | King of the Mountains Competition
1 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 232
2 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE 187
3 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL 151
4 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 143
5 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC 125
6 Andreas Klöden ASTANA 116
7 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER 88
8 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO 81
9 Denis Menchov RABOBANK 67
10 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 62
With a blistering pace, Andreas Klöden managed to win stage 13 and take over the yellow jersey from Alejandro Valverde.
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Posted on 08-03-2008 22:15
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Wow... Kloden's on fire...
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Posted on 09-03-2008 09:29
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Nice to see it so close
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:05
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July 22: Le Tour de France – Stage 14 | Mazamet > Plateau-de-Beille – 197 km
Stage Profile
Finally we’re back in the mountains and the two hors category climbs on today’s stage, the Port de Pailheres and the climb to Plateau-de-Beille, should provide the fireworks for a fantastic day of racing. There’s only 53 seconds between GC leader Klöden and number 3 in the GC Carlos Sastre, and just another 20 seconds back to number 4, Christophe Moreau, so we could be in the for the most thrilling end to a Tour de France ever. After Klöden’s astounding ride on yesterday’s stage it has become obvious that Carlos needs to gain time on him the next couple of days, otherwise Klöden will just secure the Tour win on the 19th stage, which features another long individual time trial. So not only Carlos but also Valverde need to leave Klöden in their wake if they want to come away with the win.
Cuesta and Vandevelde both attacked in the opening phase on today’s stage and they were accompanied by Björn Leukemans.
It was a bold move from our side to let both Cuesta and Vandevelde go on the attack so early but we figured if they could stay clear until the Port de Pailheres, we would have some nice cards on our hands. If a group of favourites should go clear at the Port de Pailhéres, Carlos wouldn’t have to work because he had to teammates up in front. The gap of the three-man break grew to 10’30” with 95 kilometres to go of the stage and about 25 to the foot of the Port de Pailheres, before the pack picked up the pace and started gaining on Cuesta, Vandevelde and Leukemans.
The trio had a 7 minutes advantage when they hit the 16,8 kilometres and 7,2 % Port de Pailhéres climb. As soon as the pack hit the climb Alberto Contador and Kim Kirchen attacked. None of them are threats to the GC so Contador was allowed to go clear while Kirchen didn’t have the energy to get a decent gap. After only three kilometres Leukemans was dropped by Cuesta and Vandevelde, so he was going to be in for a very long day now. Contador was coming fast up on them and with 6 kilometres to the summit he had reeled our American-Spanish constelation in. The pack was also coming fast however and when Moreau attacked for KOM points at the top of Port de Pailheres he also gained contact with them and after just a few kilometres of downhilling we had a front group of 24 riders, in which we Sastre, Schleck, Voigt, Cuesta and Vandevelde. Christian was tired though and he had to let go a few kilometres later on the descent.
Alberto Contador wanted something out of his Tour de France when he decided to take off at the Port de Pailheres.
Moreau grapped maximum points at the top of Port de Pailhéres as he is closing in on the KOM jersey.
The pack was down to just 24 riders after the Port de Pailhéres and we had 5 riders in this group.
Coming into the finale we were represented by Sastre, Schleck, Voigt and Cuesta. Sastre needed to come through. He needed to get away from Klöden on the Plateau-de-Beille and with its 15,9 kilometres and an average slope of 7,9 % it’s going to suit him a whole lot better than Klöden eventhoug the German has shown vast improvement as a climber this year. Anyway, Sastre was very determined and it didn’t take long before he powered off in an incredibly powerful attack that would see him go solo. Yes, he was finally on his own, with Klöden finally being in trouble.
Carlos Sastre decided it was now or never at the Plateau-de-Beille as he went solo with no other favourite able to follow him.
Valverde desperately tried to get away from the Klöden group, but in vain. It was a quite large group of about 13 riders, where Schleck and Voigt were still hanging on. But they were hurting. Chasing Sastre the group was soon down to 9 riders, with Klöden, Valverde, Moreau, Leipheimer, Evans, Karpets, Fothen, Savoldelli and Gerdemann all present. The only top ten rider who was missing out was Menchov but he wasn’t that far behind. Meanwhile, Sastre’s gap remained static at about 30-40 seconds with about 7 kilometres to the finish line. He was giving it everything. He needed about 50 seconds to take the yellow jersey if Klöden was to finish 2nd today and claim 12 bonus seconds.
Carlos Sastre digging deep and going for Tour glory as he looks set to grab the 14th stage and valuable time on race leader Klöden.
As Leipheimer hit the front of the group Sastre suddenly gained another 10 seconds, bringing his lead up to 50 seconds for a while. But soon Klöden and Valverde took over as they realized the American was not going fast enough and their acceleration shattered the group as they left Fothen, Evans, Karpets, Savoldelli and Gerdemann in their wake, with Leipheimer surprisingly able to hold on by the skin of his teeth. This meant a drop in Sastre’s lead as it was rapidly dropped to just 25 seconds, but Sastre wasn’t going to be reeled in as he again started gaining some time, giving him a 30 seconds lead as he passed under the Flame Rouge. He was going to win no doubt. The only question is by how much. Klöden started the sprint in the 4-man group and the German looked strong, but he couldn’t do anything about Carlos who claimed victory 29 seconds up the road.
Carlos Sastre’s Tour dreams are not at all over as he gave Klöden his first serious crisis on today’s stage to Plateau-de-Beille.
The question now is, can Sastre break Klöden on one of the two following stages. Considering what happened on the time trial yesterday he will need to gain about 2’30” on Klöden on the next two stage before I’ll feel comfortable that he can take the win, but still with that time difference nothing is certain. Tomorrow features a lot of mountains but unfortuneately no mountain top finish which will make it very hard for Sastre to gain anything on Klöden. But the only way to make him crack is to try and attack and Sastre will definitely try to do so.
Le Tour de France – Stage 14 | Result
1  Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC 5h51'27
2 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 29
3 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
4 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
5 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
6 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'30
7 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'43
8 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
10 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA s.t.
11 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 1'57
12 Denis Menchov RABOBANK s.t.
13 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 3'05
14 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 3'14
15 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
16 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 3'28
17 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'47
18 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 5'13
19 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
20 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 7'05
32 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 10'41
45 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 11'37
47 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 12'33
73 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 18'41
141 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 41'53
184 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 42'41
Le Tour de France – Stage 14 | GC
1 Andreas Klöden ASTANA 62h50'05
2 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC + 16
3 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 28
4 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE + 1'17
5 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 5'21
6 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'47
7 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 7'27
8 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 9'17
9 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA + 9'37
10 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 14'52
11 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 15'08
12 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 15'28
13 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 16'59
14 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 18'52
15 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 19'42
16 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 21'23
17 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 21'43
18 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 23'14
19 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 23'22
20 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 23'50
26 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 37'43
29 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 41'06
35 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 49'06
53 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 1h04'25
79 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 1h39'15
117 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 2h21'03
Le Tour de France – Stage 14 | Points Competition
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 268
2 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 260
3 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM 254
4 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL 214
5 Oscar Freire RABOBANK 209
6 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 208
7 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE 205
8 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 150
9 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 136
10 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM 122
Le Tour de France – Stage 14 | King of the Mountains Competition
1 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE 247
2 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 236
3 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 169
4 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC 165
5 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL 158
6 Andreas Klöden ASTANA 151
7 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER 107
8 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO 97
9 Denis Menchov RABOBANK 88
10 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL 70
Carlos Sastre of Team CSC claims the 2nd Tour de France stage win of his career.
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:07
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Sastre!!!
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:11
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Brilliant - now get the maillot jaune!
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:12
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Sastre winning a stage? The game is completely unrealistic, Carlos hasn't done this for years... YOU CHEATER! 
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:15
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Yeah you're right he never does win, in fact by using the picture of him winning I have already emptied the source of Sastre-winning-images available on the internet
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:55
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GO SASTRE! Nice! Now go for the yellow jersey. And you have to get a good lead before the TT |
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Posted on 09-03-2008 15:59
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A_Schleck wrote:
Yeah you're right he never does win, in fact by using the picture of him winning I have already emptied the source of Sastre-winning-images available on the internet
*cough*
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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Posted on 09-03-2008 16:22
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Posted on 23-03-2008 19:35
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Great Sastreeeeee |
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Posted on 25-03-2008 19:18
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Posted on 26-03-2008 19:09
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I'm just trying to gain some motivation right now. I played the next stage a couple of weeks ago and Sastre was soloing away to a win that would gain him the lead - but then it crashed and that's rather demoralizing. But it is still going on.
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Posted on 26-03-2008 19:34
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ooh, unlucky.....
another question: all the spectactors are wearing team jersey. Which package? |
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Posted on 29-03-2008 01:43
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Don't wory and keep this great story going |
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Posted on 29-03-2008 08:27
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Keep it up A_Schleck, maybe you should change sponsor to B&O at the end of the year Hope that motivates you. |
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Posted on 29-03-2008 09:32
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Smoothie wrote:
Keep it up A_Schleck, maybe you should change sponsor to B&O at the end of the year Hope that motivates you.
Please don't That would ruin the story for me completely
Great work with Sastre, now make him win the overall
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