Chapter 120
At this time, a group of 400-meter enthusiasts, led by Han Yiqing, were sitting in the audience, and they were almost impatient for the men's 400-meter final that was about to begin.
"Old Han, in the finals later, how high do you think Su Yu can run?"
46.45 seconds? 46.35 seconds? Or even 46.25 which opens directly from 46.30? !
No matter how many, everyone was eagerly looking forward to it - after all, Su Yu's performance in the 400-meter preliminaries at noon today was so amazing. Even if Su Yu was letting himself go at the time, the strength that could be seen from his "letting himself go" was already heart-pounding.
Han Yiqing was also looking nervously at the direction of the stadium. When he heard his friends asking, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I'm looking forward to it!"
Yeah, who doesn’t look forward to it?
After all, this is the talented athlete that these 400-meter enthusiasts have been waiting for for a long time!
While everyone was chatting, the eight athletes who had qualified for tonight's men's 400m final had already appeared at the stadium's entrance, and Su Yu was among them.
In the morning's preliminary round, Su Yu won first place in the men's 400m preliminaries with a time of 46.86 seconds. Therefore, in tonight's final, Su Yu was randomly assigned to lane five, which was a very good lane.
Adjacent to the Su Yu lane is an old friend of the 400-meter spectators - in the fourth lane is Li Mingzhou, who was in the inner lane of Su Yu in the morning. Although his results in the morning preliminaries were not ideal, he still ranked fourth in the overall ranking of the preliminaries and occupied a good middle lane.
In the sixth lane is Zhang Mingliang, the athlete currently in active service in China who is closest to breaking the 46-second mark in the men's 400m.
In the seventh lane is Lin Zekai, who qualified for the men's 400m together with Su Yu in this Asian Championships.
On the field, the race had not started yet. After Su Yu came on the field, he focused on adjusting the angle of his starting block. The other players on the field, in addition to adjusting the angle of their starting blocks, were more or less observing Su Yu in the fifth lane.
after all……
Although Su Yu looks a little older in the new season than last season, the childishness on his face has not completely disappeared. Anyone who sees him will just think he is a pretty little boy. It is hard to imagine that he is a sprinter who has already dominated the domestic U20 in the men's 100m and 200m events, and is likely to start breaking records in the 400m event soon.
Su Yu was already accustomed to the gazes from all around. He did not care about the meaning behind these gazes. After adjusting the starting blocks, he refocused on his pre-race preparations.
For the upcoming final, he knows that many people are looking forward to it, so he will be more serious, but he will not put in his full effort.
With the adjustments and growth of last season, Su Yu has had a relatively clear concept of how to adjust his own competitive state.
Before the start of the new season, Pei Dingshan planned for him the ultimate goal of this season - the World Championships.
In fact, even if he has set this goal, it does not mean that he will have a chance to successfully qualify for the World Championships.
Pei Dingshan did not hide any possibility from him. It was he who chose to challenge this almost impossible opportunity.
Once he makes this decision, he needs to complete each of his games as much as possible according to the plan given to him by Pei Dingshan, from the registered events to the registered events to the degree of control over his own state in each game. He will try his best to control his own state, and then try to touch the goal little by little in the game.
Not only trying to get the chance to touch the goal, but also trying to prepare yourself as much as possible to be in better condition after 'grabbing the opportunity' to cope with the competition that is considered the dream competition for all track and field athletes.
Soon, the whistle from the starter on site brought Su Yu back to his senses.
He put aside other thoughts in his mind and began to focus on the game in front of him.
At this time, all the players on the field have made their own preparations. No matter what they think in their hearts, at least on the surface they have temporarily turned their attention away from Su Yu.
It was also at this time that the starter on the scene gave the first command of the game - "Get ready!"
In front of the 400-meter curved starting line, Su Yu quickly circled to his own starting line, leaned over with his hands to support himself on the ground, and squatted on the front and rear pedals of his starting block with his legs one in front of the other. After trying the angle of the pedals with a little force again, Su Yu bent his knees and touched the ground, supported himself with his hands in front of the starting line, lowered his head slightly, adjusted his breathing and his state, and waited attentively for the starter's instructions.
At the same time, the audience in the live audience seats had already held their breath and quieted down under the prompting of the large electronic screen in the venue, not daring to disturb the runners' starting position with cheers and screams.
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming simply said "Be patient, the game is about to begin", and then they both looked intently at the images transmitted back from the scene.
After observing the preparations of all the players, the official commentator on the scene quickly gave the second instruction: "Ready."
Then, with a "bang", the starting gun sounded -
The game begins!
In the audience, veteran 400-meter sprint enthusiasts like Han Yiqing were all excited after seeing the finalists' reactions at the start - in this game, the speed of the contestants at the start was something they had not seen in the country for a long time.
Especially Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang on the court, both of them showed their handsomeness which was not shown at all last season.
On the court, Zhang Mingliang in the sixth lane was in great shape. Perhaps he was unwilling to accept that he had been abandoned by the national team at the age of 23. Therefore, in today's final, the emotions accumulated in his heart also raised his condition.
In fact, Zhang Mingliang has always been in good shape in daily training, but he is a typical training-type player. He can show a relatively stable state in daily training, but once in the competition, he becomes an unstable dragon and phoenix.
But today, because of the excitement of the Asian Championships qualification and the excitement of competing with Su Yu, Zhang Mingliang showed an unprecedented excellent form in the previous season, which made many 400m enthusiasts in the audience who once supported Zhang Mingliang's performance brighten up again!
Li Mingzhou was unwilling to accept his failure in the preliminaries. He thought that Su Yu might not be able to run in such good condition in the finals. He also wanted to prove himself once again and regain the face he lost in the morning. So in the men's 400m final in the evening, he also gave his all and wanted to sprint forward better.
He felt that he was on the same field with Su Yu tonight, and the lane relationship between him and Su Yu was exactly the same as in the preliminaries in the morning, so tonight he would definitely not make the same mistake as in the morning!
As for Lin Zekai in the seventh lane, his all-out sprint was not unrelated to Su Yu, but he was a player who rushed to the end in every game, so his performance in today's game was no different from his usual performance.
Compared with the players around him, Su Yu's performance in the fifth lane did not seem so outstanding. Even in the first 100-meter bend, Su Yu seemed to be slightly behind Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang.
In the audience seats, the audience watching the situation on the field couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for Su Yu in the fifth lane - why did Su Yu's performance in the first 100-meter curve stage seem to be almost the same as in the preliminaries in the morning? !
Isn't tonight's match the finals? !
And if Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming in the Jigu video live commentary room could hear the voices of the audience, they would definitely tell the audience - your judgment is correct, Su Yu's condition is indeed not much different from the preliminaries in the morning!
Not to mention anything else, just look at the reaction time when he started the race, which was particularly clear for Su Yu, and he knew it.
Among the finalists in this match, Su Yu's reaction time to the gun was 0.155 seconds - even faster than the 0.152 seconds in the morning.
Of course, this does not mean that Su Yu can control his reaction time to the gun 100%, but it at least shows one thing - that is, in the first 100-meter stage, Su Yu's final state is indeed almost the same as that in the preliminaries.
The starting reaction time of 0.155 seconds also set a "new record" for Su Yu's starting reaction time - Su Yu's time spent in the starting reaction stage fell to third place for the first time.
In this final, the two people who had faster starting reaction times than Su Yu were Zhang Mingliang and Lin Zekai. Their starting reaction times in this game were 0.143 seconds and 0.147 seconds respectively.
Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming didn't understand what Su Yu meant at first, but they soon realized one thing - in this arena, Zhang Mingliang is the only athlete whose PB can significantly exceed 46.86. Among the other athletes, Li Mingzhou's best 400m result last season was 46.72, and Lin Zekai's best 400m result last season was 46.79, which is actually not far from Su Yu's 46.86.
In other words, even if Su Yu completed the final with the same state as in the morning preliminaries, the three opponents on the field who posed a threat to Su Yu might not necessarily pose a real threat to Su Yu.
What's more...Su Yu doesn't really ignore these opponents.
On the field, after the first 100-meter bend of the 400-meter race, as the race entered the second 100-meter stage, which was the first straight stage on the field, Su Yu had already accelerated significantly. The distance that was slightly behind in the first 100-meter stage had been quickly made up and even surpassed in the speed-up of the second 100-meter stage!
In the audience, 400m runners like Han Yiqing quickly became excited after seeing Su Yu's high-speed burst in the 200m race, which was described as "as if he was moving"!
"Vo——cal! What a fast speed!"
In fact, Su Yu's speed in the T2 section on the field is certainly not the same as his actual sprint rhythm in the 200-meter event, but compared with his opponents on the field, Su Yu's speed ability is undoubtedly the strongest. Even though the 200-meter stage speed is not the limit for Su Yu, compared with his opponents in the adjacent lanes, his speed in the 100-200-meter section is enough to put his opponents under tremendous pressure.
Zhang Mingliang on the sixth lane and Li Mingzhou on the fourth lane were the two players who faced this pressure directly. Among them, Li Mingzhou on the fourth lane had narrowed the distance between him and Su Yu in the first 100-meter curve section, but he didn't even have time to feel excited about the narrowing of the distance between himself and Su Yu, because he felt Su Yu's dominance on today's track in the second 100-meter section.
Yes, dominance.
Li Mingzhou didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that on the 400-meter track in front of him, Su Yu's presence was a trampling on his self-esteem.
This trampling reminded him of the first time he became a member of the Chinese national 400m team delegation and went abroad as a 'Chinese team member'.
Even Li Mingzhou did not have a bad mentality towards the game from the beginning. He also had his own passion for the game and expectations for his own results.
But when he stood on the overseas arena, facing players from Asia, and was ruthlessly crushed by those Asian players, when he tried desperately but was powerless, what he felt was this sense of powerlessness of being crushed.
But……
Is it possible?
After all, Su Yu is just a 16-year-old kid!
A kid who has only been practicing 400 meters for less than a year!
Is it really possible that Li Mingzhou is completely unable to catch up with such a kid? !
Even Li Mingzhou, who had no aspirations, couldn't give up under the pressure from Su Yu. Li Mingzhou almost gritted his teeth and ran hard on the track. He knew that his speed might not be as good as Su Yu's, so while he tried to speed up, he also paid attention to controlling his physical energy consumption.
At this moment in the 400-meter final, Li Mingzhou's performance was more serious than any previous time. He thought, even if he couldn't beat Su Yu, would he still lose to Zhang Mingliang and Lin Zekai in today's final? !
With this thought in mind, Li Mingzhou became more and more active and proactive on the field, and his speed in the following T2 sprint became faster and faster.
Not only Li Mingzhou, but Zhang Mingliang on the sixth path was in a similar state.
In past competitions, Zhang Mingliang was always unconsciously limited by the troubles he had with his own condition. He knew that his condition fluctuated greatly, but once his condition fluctuated greatly, he would unconsciously be limited by his own condition, and then his mentality would be unbalanced and he would give up the game on the court.
But today was different. In today's game, Zhang Mingliang didn't even have the time and opportunity to give up his game - the pressure from Su Yu behind him on the left made Zhang Mingliang start to sprint forward continuously.
If he didn't want to be overtaken by Su Yu on the inner lane too early on the outer lane, he had to run faster.
Faster, faster.
Perhaps because he focused all his attention on not wanting to be surpassed by Su Yu too early, Zhang Mingliang did not have much time to think about how he was performing.
Perhaps it was because he put aside these unnecessary thoughts in his mind that Zhang Mingliang, whose performance on the field has always been up and down, gave a performance in tonight's men's 400m final that far exceeded any game last season!
In the audience seats, the 400-meter enthusiasts screamed loudly and cheered for every athlete on the field.
The 400-meter final in front of them is a long-awaited excitement!
They have not seen such a fierce competition in the domestic arena for a long time. No matter whether it is Li Mingzhou, Zhang Mingliang, Lin Zekai on the seventh lane, or even the players in other lanes, all of them are sprinting forward with gritted teeth, hoping to achieve an excellent result!
And the reason for all this is because of him—the 16-year-old young player on the fifth lane, Su Yu!
Su Yu, Su Yu!
Many people's eyes were focused on him, nervously waiting for the boy's next performance.
Just now in the T2 stage, Su Yu's speed was obviously much stronger than that in the preliminary stage in the morning, which means that the physical energy consumption in the T2 stage will inevitably be greater than that in the T2 stage in the morning.
So what about the T3 segment?
The track and field fans in the audience couldn't help but start to feel nervous at this time. They were worried that Su Yu had not controlled the rhythm of the 400 meters well enough, so he consumed too much energy in the T2 section. They were also worried that in the following T3 and T4 sections, Su Yu would experience a drastic slowdown due to excessive energy consumption in the T2 section? !
But soon, as Su Yu's race entered the T3 stage, the audience in the stands could feel that Su Yu's speed did slow down when entering this new curved stage, but it was not as drastic a slowdown as they had originally worried about!
So...is Su Yu's speed in the second 100-meter stage still under his control? !
With such surprise and expectation, the audience on the scene watched the game nervously, and couldn't help but cheer and scream loudly because of the performance of the players on the field.
“Come on, come on!!”
"Come on, Su Yu! Come on, go ahead!!!"
The fans in the audience who were fanatically obsessed with the 400-meter event were all shouting loudly, wanting to give their hottest cheers to Su Yu on the field.
In addition to cheering for Su Yu, the performance of the other players in the arena today also lifted their spirits. Many people also began to cheer loudly for Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang who were stunned in the arena today.
Apart from Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang, Lin Zekai in the seventh lane maintained his usual rhythm - sprinting. However, probably because he got a place in the Asian Championships today, in today's race, even though Lin Zekai was sprinting all the time, he still maintained a good condition in the second bend, and did not experience a cliff-like drop in physical fitness and speed like in some other games.
At this moment in the competition, due to the emergence of a new variable 'Su Yu', all the players have shown their best condition and the most determined will, wanting to achieve as good a result as possible in this final, rather than completely losing to Su Yu and everyone else!
Come on, come on!
This is no longer just the cheers from the audience, but also the encouragement from all the contestants on the scene to themselves.
Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang, they both ran at their best in this arena with this kind of self-encouragement!
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were feeling particularly excited watching the performances of the players on the field.
You know, due to the terrible situation of the 400m in China and the large number of players' poor performance in the competition, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming often felt powerless when they were commentating on the 400m event last season. Even if they showed their best professionalism, it was difficult for them to give any passionate commentary in such a competition.
But today is different—
Today's game was one that filled both of them with passion after watching it!
"At present, there is still a fierce competition between Li Mingzhou, Su Yu, Zhang Mingliang and Lin Zekai in the middle four lanes. Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang are in particularly good form today!"
"Lin Zekai on the seventh lane was not to be outdone. In the sprint just now, Lin Zekai must have consumed a lot of physical energy, but his speed has not dropped drastically so far!"
“It can be seen that Li Mingzhou and Lin Zekai have reached their limit – turning from the curve to the straight, the final 100-meter sprint!”
On the field, Lin Zekai in the seventh lane fell behind the runners in the middle four lanes. His reckless running style was indeed the least suitable for 400 meters, so much so that he consumed a lot of energy in the sprint ahead.
Especially today when Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang were both stunned, Lin Zekai's running method seemed particularly bad.
However, a player's rhythm control is not something that can be learned. The national team took a fancy to Lin Zekai mainly because of his control over the 400-meter single speed.
Compared with the old-fashioned Li Mingzhou who usually plays badly and Zhang Mingliang whose performance is fluctuating, Lin Zekai's rhythm is reckless and disorganized, but he is indeed the athlete who takes the 400m event most seriously.
Moreover, in tonight's final, even though Lin Zekai seemed to be losing to the other players, he still had no intention of giving up.
In the meter stage, I am still sprinting with all my strength.
Even Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming couldn't help but say after seeing Lin Zekai's performance: "Lin Zekai is indeed a player who takes the competition very seriously and sincerely."
If the national team can successfully train such a player and allow Lin Zekai to master the overall rhythm of the 400 meters, then there may be another 400-meter warrior in the domestic 400-meter event in the future!
In addition to Lin Zekai, the second and third place in this final are Li Mingzhou and Zhang Mingliang in the fourth and sixth lanes.
Between the two, Zhang Mingliang on the sixth lane was undoubtedly the stronger one, so Zhang Mingliang also relied on his speed ability and speed endurance to successfully fall behind Su Yu, preventing Su Yu from completely throwing him away.
Li Mingzhou in the fourth lane could still keep up with Su Yu in the first three 100-meter stages, but after the fourth 100-meter stage, the lactic acid produced in the first three 100-meter stages had rapidly begun to accumulate in his body muscles. In the final 100-meter straight sprint, even just a step brought intense pain.
The tightness in the body muscles caused by the accumulation of lactic acid made it difficult for Li Mingzhou to continue sprinting forward even if he gritted his teeth.
At the same time, Li Mingzhou noticed Su Yu on the fifth path out of the corner of his eye, and the physical elasticity shown by Su Yu at this stage made Li Mingzhou simply incomprehensible.
Why is it that at this stage, Su Yu's body elasticity still seems to be unaffected by lactic acid accumulation? !
Li Mingzhou didn't know about Su Yu's physical recovery ability, but even if he knew it, it was difficult for him to understand the speed endurance advantage that Su Yu's physical recovery ability brought him in the 400-meter stage. At the same time, Li Mingzhou had not yet realized that in this game, Su Yu was still stably controlling his rhythm!
The final 50 meters!
In the live commentary room of Jigu Video, Tian Ruhui and Zhou Jiming were both excited: "The last 50 meters! The current leading player is Su Yu from the S Province Sports Team!!"
Even in the last 100-meter stage, Su Yu did not feel too exhausted in the first 50 meters, but in the last 50 meters, even the ordinary spectators at the scene could see that -
"accelerate!!!"
"Fuck fuck fuck!! Su Yu is still speeding up?!!"
The group of 400-meter enthusiasts at the scene were originally simply celebrating Su Yu's victory with excitement, but they didn't expect that in the final 50 meters, Su Yu brought them a new level of excitement!
“Vocal!!! Su Yu!! Su Yu, go ahead!!!”
Wild excitement surged into the hearts of the spectators. Almost everyone was screaming wildly, and the name Su Yu was on everyone's lips. It seemed as if they were about to witness a new miracle on this field!
"Su Yu! Su Yu! Su Yu!!"
The cheers for Su Yu at the scene unconsciously gathered together and became an orderly cheer. Their cheers, along with the rhythm of Su Yu's final sprint on the field, brought indescribable excitement and excitement to the entire field.
On the field, Zhang Mingliang, who had been able to barely keep up with Su Yu when turning from the second bend to the straight, finally couldn't keep up with this scary boy in the fifth lane during Su Yu's final 50-meter sprint.
How did he do it? !
Zhang Mingliang's mind was dazed for a moment, but he quickly gritted his teeth and held up his speed, not letting his speed drop seriously due to the pressure from Su Yu's fifth path.
The last 50 meters!
If Su Yu can do it, then he can’t fail either...!
Even though the gradually uniform cheers of "Su Yu" from the audience brought considerable pressure to the contestants, this pressure was subtly transformed at this moment into motivation for the contestants to withstand the pressure and lack of physical strength and continue to sprint towards the finish line!
Even if...
Even if they can't be like Su Yu, they can't end up last in a scene like today, right? !
Perhaps it was with such thoughts and ideas that all the contestants on the field gritted their teeth and ran all the way towards the finish line ahead!
Come on, come on! Hang in there, they can do it! !
Finally, at the front of the last 100-meter stage, Su Yu crossed the finish line of this race with an oppressive and undoubted first place. After Su Yu, the second person to successfully cross the line was Zhang Mingliang, whose performance had always been up and down in the past competitions. The third person to cross the line was Li Mingzhou in the fourth lane. Almost at the same time as Li Mingzhou was Lin Zekai in the seventh lane...!
When all the players on the field crossed the line one after another, a crazy cheer broke out from the audience. Various names were mixed in the cheers. Among them, Su Yu's name was naturally the most mainstream, but Li Mingzhou, Zhang Mingliang and others who performed well in the previous game also received enthusiastic screams from the audience.
Han Yiqing and his group of 400-meter enthusiasts were so excited that they could hardly control themselves.
"Fuck, this is awesome, so exciting!!"
"Old Han, I really didn't expect that we would be able to see such an exciting and heart-warming performance from our own people in domestic competitions this season!"
In the past many seasons, the athletes ran like an old ox pulling a broken cart on the track, ran in a sloppy manner after the top three athletes in front had been decided, and simply did not run well because they realized that their condition was not good. These extremely bad memories and experiences are the reasons why these 400m enthusiasts are disappointed with the domestic 400m athletes.
But now, they suddenly discovered that, in fact, China’s 400 meters didn’t seem so hopeless... ?
Just like the final just now, except for Su Yu, the remaining players are actually regulars in the domestic men's 400-meter sprint events. But it was these "regulars" who just gave them an excellent viewing experience!
Han Yiqing was extremely excited at the moment. He looked at Su Yu on the field while looking at the large electronic screen at the scene. He was eagerly looking forward to the official announcement of the results of this game.
It's not just Han Yiqing. It can be said that all the audience who are paying attention to this event are also looking forward to the final results of this event!
"Old Han, what do you think Su Yu can achieve in the end?!"
"To be honest, it's not just Su Yu. I'm also looking forward to the results of the other players on the field..."
"Yes, in this game, Su Yu's result must be better than that in the morning preliminaries, right? If Su Yu's result has already exceeded that in the morning preliminaries and reached the range of about 46.40 seconds, then Zhang Mingliang's result in this game should also be around 46.60 seconds. Li Mingzhou is probably around his PB, and Lin Zekai feels that the gap is not that big..."
After everyone present counted like this, they immediately realized that for the remaining four contestants, although they were a little slower than Li Mingzhou and his team, the gap was actually not that big.
If Li Mingzhou and Lin Zekai's results are around 46.80 seconds, the remaining players' results will not be more than two seconds behind them.
When someone mentioned this, all the 400-meter enthusiasts present jumped up immediately -
"If that's the case, then it's very likely that all of today's finalists didn't run below 49 seconds?!"
What is the concept?
You know, in last season's 400m Grand Prix race, there were even several athletes who ran over 55 seconds!
Not only did the lower-ranked athletes run beyond 55 seconds, but in many races, scores of around 48.30 seconds were enough to win championships in the races!
And today, the score of 48.30 seconds is even just the performance range of the athletes in the last echelon of this game!
After sensing this possibility, the 400-meter enthusiasts present looked at each other in astonishment and were a little bit unbelieving, but at the same time they were completely excited about this possibility.
What makes all this possible?
When they began to think about this problem, a name simply and rudely broke into their minds - Su Yu!
It was the appearance of Su Yu that brought pressure and stimulation to these contestants. The appearance of Su Yu began to motivate these contestants who once seemed like masters or had various problems.
Let these athletes stop indulging in the past 400-meter status quo and move together with Su Yu!
In fact, before this, there were players like Su Yu who would play seriously in the game - for example, Lin Zekai was a player who respected the game very seriously in the game, but the problem with Lin Zekai was that his skills and strength could not cause overwhelming suppression to his opponents.
Not only that, Lin Zekai's age of about 20 years old will not cause these players to feel the same mental pressure as facing Su Yu.
It can be said that Su Yu's presence forced these people to be alert and face the competition in front of them nervously, either actively or passively...
Just as the audience in the audience thought of this possibility, before they had time to further explore it, they heard someone exclaim, "The results are out!"
With a cry of surprise, everyone's eyes turned to the electronic screen at the scene, and saw that the final result of the men's 400m final of the G Province Z City Grand Prix was clearly displayed on it -
First place: Su Yu (S Province Sports Team), 46.18 seconds, NU18B;
Second place: Zhang Mingliang (L Province Sports Team), 46.36 seconds, SB (season best result);
Third place: Li Mingzhou (J Province Sports Team), 46.59 seconds, PB (personal best);
Fourth place: Lin Zekai (Z Province Sports Team), 46.66 seconds, PB (personal best);
Fifth place: …
When all eight rankings were displayed, the audience was astonished to find that the results of this final were even more exaggerated than they had expected, and that five of the eight finalists had broken their personal best records...? !
After seeing the result, almost all the audience present fell into an incredible silence. It was not until a long time later that someone started a new round of carnival that almost overturned the entire scene! ! !
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