Chapter 50 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games
◎Highest free dance score this season◎
"The Winter Youth Olympics sounds pretty impressive." Ni Chuan said with a smile.
"It just sounds awesome. The Winter Olympics events will basically appear in the Winter Youth Olympics, but the difference is that only athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 can participate in the Winter Youth Olympics. In addition, this is the first year, so there will probably not be many athletes participating. Ordinary people may not have heard of this competition." Xu Chi smiled and said, "I guess the scale is not large, just think of it as a warm-up before the World Youth Championship."
Ji Tian nodded.
Before, she and Tang Yi had been focusing on the finals, so they didn't think too much about the Winter Youth Olympics.
But as Xu Chi said, although this competition has the name of the Olympics, it is held for the first time after all, and the age limit is more stringent than the World Youth Championship. The attention and influence are definitely much smaller than the Winter Olympics. It may not be as well-known as the World Youth Championship in figure skating. Of course, this is an international competition after all, and there will be strong opponents from various countries. She and Tang Yi can still win a medal.
The necessary efforts have been made, and what remains is to keep a calm mind and perform steadily. Ji Tiantian thought so, with her heart full of expectations.
After Ji Tang chatted with Ni Chuan and Fei Fei for a while, he said goodbye to them.
They packed their bags in the hotel and said goodbye to other triathlon skaters who were going back home. They couldn't leave so soon.
Before returning to China, Ji Tang first went back to the Montreal Ice Dance School.
Their 11-year overseas training has come to an end, and they have achieved excellent results, but there is still some finishing work to do. For example, Xu Chi needs to discuss some plans for the new season with Clara and her husband. The finals in December 2011 have passed, which means that this season has come to an end.
This year, their overseas training started in a hurry and the schedule was tight. The reason why they only went to the finals was because Clara and her husband needed to coach the students who had made appointments in advance. Clara was not the only choreographer for the Chinese team who needed to be taken care of. They had to plan for next year first, and Ji Tang would have more time for overseas training later.
Ji Tiantian packed her personal belongings to take back to China in the dormitory of the ice dance school. Before returning home, she had another important itinerary, which was to visit Qian Xiyue.
She and Tang Yi found Mia Lucas, who was also in the ice dance school, and then they all went to visit Qian Xiyue at the ski resort where she trained, along with the coach.
In the vast white snow, Qian Xiyue, wearing a ski suit, flew down from the mountain in a heroic manner.
Qian Xiyue's current main event is alpine downhill skiing, which requires diving all the way to the top of a mountain with a vertical height of about 450 meters, trying to finish the skiing at the fastest speed.
The downhill track is not vertical. There are many bends and jumps, and dangers are hidden everywhere.
But Qian Xiyue was fearless. She stepped on the skis, controlled the curved ski poles for downhill skiing, turned a big corner, and then quickly slid towards the platform in front of Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi.
She leaned forward slightly, then jumped on her skis, leaping into the air with a body as nimble as a snow leopard.
For a moment, Ji Tiantian held her breath.
Ji Tiantian began to understand that Qian Xiyue did not stop jumping. She did not give up, but just changed the track.
She was jumping all the time.
"Currently, Qian Xiyue is hiring a coach to train at her own expense. She will also go to the Winter Youth Olympics this time. If she gets good results, she may be able to get government funding." Xu Chi stood next to Ji Tiantian and spoke with emotion, "In fact, compared to skating, talents in skiing are even more scarce. The skiing team has to look for people in the track and field team. Xiyue herself has a foundation in ice and snow events, and she has performed quite well. I think she still has great hope."
"Then... does Xiyue have a hope... to go to the Winter Olympics?" Ji Tiantian asked in a low voice.
"That's a long story." Xu Chi smiled. "As far as I know, skiing competitions use a points system. The International Ski Federation stipulates that athletes must participate in various international skiing points competitions and obtain more than 500 points to qualify for the Olympics. Currently, no one in our country's downhill skiing can cross this threshold. There is really a long way to go."
Ji Tiantian sighed silently.
After Qian Xiyue stopped practicing, she came to Ji Tiantian. She couldn't help but smile at Ji Tiantian and reached out to touch her head.
Ji Tiantian was wearing a pink down jacket, a Melody woolen hat on her head, and matching Melody gloves.
The down jacket was prepared by her mother, and the hat and gloves were all thrown to her by the fans at the Grand Prix Final. Ji Tiantian actually doesn't like to dress up to look young, but she is willing to wear the gifts from her mother and fans. Besides, this outfit is quite suitable.
She didn't know that this set of equipment had the effect of increasing her compassion value. Qian Xiyue, who was not much older than her, looked at her as if she were a newborn kitten, with gentle love in his eyes.
"Xiyue, please teach me how to ski." Ji Tiantian said to Qian Xiyue, with stars in her eyes.
"I really don't want to refuse you, but I have to. If you get hurt, Tang Yi will fight me to the death." Qian Xiyue sighed softly.
"? He won't." Ji Tiantian turned to look at Tang Yi beside her, "Tang Yi, I want to go skiing with Xiyue, is that ok?" Considering that there were foreign friends present, Ji Tang and Qian Xiyue spoke in English.
Tang Yi didn't say anything, but his attitude said it all.
"Look, you don't know him yet." Qian Xiyue touched Ji Tiantian's head again, "I also broke my arm when I first started skiing. You're still in the season, so be careful."
Lucas, who was standing aside, spoke to Tang Yi: "It's not good for you to control your dance partner like this. Young people should do whatever they want to do."
Tang Yi: "Heh."
Ji Tiantian thought of what Tang Yi said about Lucas’ accident, pursed her lips, and no longer insisted on skiing.
"I watched your competition, Tiantian." Qian Xiyue smiled and continued, "Last year you couldn't even do a twist, but I didn't expect you to be able to do a quintuple twist all of a sudden."
"Maybe... I'm lucky?" Ji Tiantian said.
"Luck is also a part of strength." Qian Xiyue frowned slightly and looked at Ji Tiantian with some worry, "You better be careful, Tiantian."
As a former figure skater, Qian Xiyue is well aware of the risks hidden in the synchronized twist step.
"Well, you have to be careful too." Ji Tiantian nodded gently and also reminded Qian Xiyue. After all, there is no sport that is not associated with pain and risk.
Afterwards, Qian Xiyue turned around and continued skiing. Lucas changed his equipment and joined her.
Ji Tiantian, Tang Yi, and Mia stood aside and started chatting.
"Tiantian, this is the photo I took before. Isn't it cute?"
Mia handed the camera with the photos to Ji Tiantian. The camera of a rich girl looked very luxurious and heavy. Ji Tiantian carefully leaned over.
After seeing the photo, she immediately gasped. It was the photo of her and Tang Yi sleeping on a bench in the corridor with their heads close together on the day of the dance.
There are actually photos like this?
"Hurry, delete it!" Ji Tiantian said while covering her face.
"You don't like it?" Mia said disappointedly, "I wanted to give it to everyone in the group as a New Year's gift."
"Wait, what group?"
"I'm in your international fan group, and I'm an administrator." Mia smiled happily at Ji Tiantian.
"Why are you in there?"
"Of course it's because I like you two very much." Mia paused, showing a melancholy expression, "Hey, I often talk to Lucas about you two, but Lucas doesn't want to listen, and we often quarrel about this."
Ji Tiantian: “…” I’m afraid your level of tacit understanding can’t be improved any further.
After chatting for a while, the wonderful but short ski party came to an end.
Ji Tang bid farewell to the wealthy group and Qian Xiyue, left the ice dance school, headed for the airport, and prepared to return home.
"By the way, have you opened your social media accounts?" While waiting for the shipment to be checked in, Xu Chi suddenly thought of something and asked Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi.
"Oh, open now." Ji Tiantian immediately fiddled with her phone. She almost forgot the task from her boss, which was to create an account to report updates to the fans.
"Aren't you going to open it?" Ji Tiantian asked when she saw Tang Yi standing beside her without moving.
"You driving is the same as me driving." Tang Yi said, "Our itineraries are basically the same."
"Yeah, that's fine, we can share an account together." Ji Tiantian nodded, "We will take turns to post updates using this account from now on."
"good."
Then Ji Tiantian opened a Weibo account with the name: For Chinese Ice Dance Group Ji Tang to speak exclusively.
The avatar is a string of two people’s names in pinyin, and the picture comes from the sub-score table.
"Very serious." Tang Yi took a look and said so.
"We are a serious group." Ji Tiantian nodded and suddenly thought of something, "Tang Yi, do you have your medal with you?"
"Well, wait a moment." Tang Yi opened his suitcase and handed his world bronze medal, event gold medal, and final silver medal to Ji Tiantian.
Ji Tiantian also took out her own. She took off her national team jacket and put it on a chair, then put their duplicate three-color medals together and placed them on the bright red jacket.
As she took the photo of her medal, she couldn't help but feel a surge of pride. They have been on a roll since the 2010 National Championships and have really achieved a lot.
She posted the photo on Weibo, captioning it: "I won the silver medal in the Grand Prix Final. I'm so happy. I'm going home! I'm getting ready for the next Winter Youth Olympics!"
She also mentioned her friends, so Qian Xiyue, Ning Huai, Ye Yidong, Yu Sha, Gao Zhe and others reposted their Weibo posts.
Soon, a lot of ice fans and passers-by visited their Weibo and left enthusiastic messages.
"Congratulations to sweet sister Tang Ge for opening an account!"
"Congratulations to my sweetheart for collecting all three colors of medals! They all look so good!"
"Wow, sweet girl Tang and brother even opened the same account together. I think I discovered something, hehe."
Ji Tiantian looked at the last new comment that popped up and couldn't help but look at the phone on the subway.
No, my friend, what did you find? I changed my profile picture and name to be so serious, how can you still do that?
"Haha, looking at this cheerful tone, the person who posted on Weibo should be a sweet girl, right? She's going home with Brother Tang! Congratulations!" Another comment appeared.
Ji Tiantian couldn't help but cover her forehead. What does "go home together" mean? Is there any ambiguity, my friend?
But she still felt very happy when she saw the comments one by one. It was really good to be seen by others.
"Tiantian, do you have an alias on the forum? Come and check it out, there's a surprise."
Ji Tiantian saw another comment and hesitated.
Ever since she chatted with Feifei, she felt that she was in danger of being exposed, so she didn't dare to go to the forum again. In fact, she didn't post anything wrong, but she once begged the forum moderator to delete the animated picture of her and Tang Yi. Then she didn't get a reply.
She read the comments on Weibo and was still aroused by the primitive curiosity of human beings, so she logged into the figure skating forum again.
Her forum username is "TT loves to eat oden." She logged in and looked around, but there were no suspicious private messages, so she was not exposed for the time being.
She secretly breathed a sigh of relief and browsed around the forum.
"Fei Fei studying abroad" posted in the forum that Tiantian might visit the forum frequently, and then several fans of the forum thought that Tiantian came to the forum mostly to see if there were any nice photos.
Just like many celebrity idols, they also like to go to fan sites to find nice photos of themselves.
So the enthusiastic ice fans built a whole building of Tiantang’s collection, and the content of the theme post was: I hope Tiantian can see it, we like you very much!
Then the replies were all photos of Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi that everyone had collected. There were the usual Melody beatings, Tang Yi covering Ji Tiantian's head with his clothes, and Tang Yi carrying Ji Tiantian to the podium.
There was also the newly added Ji Tiantian who was holding Tang Yi's arm tightly in the waiting area. Ji Tiantian left the mixed interview area and fought with Tang Yi with the sweet goose.
Plus some photos from the competition.
The photo with the most comments is the one in which Tang Yi, who plays the little prince, holds Ji Tiantian, who plays the rose, and lifts her up with a twist.
Ji Tiantian's body was swinging in the air, and she and Tang Yi were staring at each other. Both of them were smiling happily, as if they were not doing difficult technical moves but just having fun.
Ji Tiantian was a little overwhelmed after looking at the previous photos, but when she saw this one, she couldn't help but smile.
This photo was taken really well.
Amid the enthusiasm of ice fans, she once again recalled every thrilling yet enjoyable moment of the competition.
It's really great to be an ice dancer.
Ji Tiantian then posted a new Weibo post: "Thank you to everyone in the forum! Let's work hard together next year!"
"Tiantian! Tang Yi! You two must be well!"
“You must keep sliding down!”
"If you don't have time to update Weibo, don't do it! The game is more important!"
"Go Youth Winter Olympics!"
It was time to check in her luggage, so Ji Tiantian reluctantly turned off her phone and set off for home.
In a flash, the group arrived safely in the capital.
After reporting to the domestic leaders, Xu Chi, Jiang Lin and Ji Tang immediately started domestic training.
Compared to the finals, everyone was more relaxed facing the Winter Youth Olympics, after all, they had won a silver medal, so they were confident. Ji Tang's training time was also relatively relaxed.
Ji Tiantian also has time to go to school to study and watch the school’s New Year’s Day performance.
Because of her overseas training, she didn't have the opportunity to participate in the school performance, but as the saying goes, "Everything goes well, and everything goes well." She came back with a medal, so she didn't feel any regret.
2011 was spent in a busy way. 2012 is coming in a flash.
The first major event of the year was the 12th National Winter Games, which naturally included figure skating.
In theory, all the top-ranked adult and youth teams in the National Championships should participate. Ji Tang did not participate in the National Championships, so he missed the Games. Fortunately, they performed well in the finals, and after returning home, the leaders did not hold them accountable for not going to the National Championships.
Not going to the Winter Games also means more time for practice. While practicing at the national team ice rink in the capital, Ji Tang also heard good news from the Winter Games. Lin Aili and Brother Bianzi, the second ice dancers in the youth group, performed well and won the silver medal, second only to the smiling group.
Currently, the ice dance youth group No. 1 and No. 2 are divided into two routes. Lin Aili's group mainly trains in China this year, while Ji Tang mainly works hard abroad. Then, they will compete together in the final World Youth Championship of this season. Their results will also have a certain impact on their future plans.
Thanks to enthusiastic reposts from ice fans and media interviews at the stadium, Ji Tang's popularity on Weibo continued to rise. In just a few days, he had accumulated 30,000 fans.
Many fans and ice fans left messages on Weibo saying they wanted to watch their show.
After discussing with the head coach, Xu Chi arranged an open training session for Ji Tang. Domestic ice fans can come to the national team ice rink to watch the two train.
However, during the free dance practice, a small accident occurred. Tang Yi failed to do the six-week turn and lift, and the subsequent twist, he also failed to do the five-week turn.
After getting off the ice, Tang Yi held onto the barrier on the side with his hands.
"Your feet hurt again?" Ji Tiantian asked with concern.
"It hurts a little bit suddenly." Tang Yi took a deep breath, "I should be fine after taking a rest."
Ji Tiantian couldn't help but wonder whether the intensive training had some impact on Tang Yi.
Of the two, Tang Yi was always the one who took the overall situation into consideration. Ji Tiantian was absorbed in her role, while Tang Yi had to pay attention to himself while also paying attention to Ji Tiantian to avoid accidents during high-speed gliding.
He has a lot of areas where he needs to expend his energy, so he is more likely to suffer losses.
When Xu Chi saw that Tang Yi was in trouble, he immediately went to find the team doctor.
"Didn't you say he was fully recovered before?" Xu Chi demanded, while watching the team doctor examine Tang Yi.
"Before was before, and now is now. How could I have known that your athletes would train so hard in the future? We have only been working together for less than two years, and you have already won the silver medal in the finals. Not everyone can do that." The team doctor shook his head slightly, "It's nothing serious, it's just that we have been practicing too frequently recently, which caused muscle soreness. Let your athletes rest well, don't act like they are fighting a war every day."
"You naughty kid, you've been practicing secretly again." Xu Chi patted Tang Yi's neck hard, "Restorate well during this period, do you hear me? There are only eight days left until the Winter Youth Olympics, don't mess around!"
Tang Yi nodded silently.
Ji Tiantian stood by and looked at Tang Yi. Sometimes she felt that he carried an idol burden that ordinary people could not see, and he was always very strict with himself.
Maybe he didn't want to be a hindrance to her? She thought without thinking.
"Old Xu, have you seen the list of participants in the Winter Youth Olympics before?"
Jiang Lin came over and showed Xu Chi the electronic list on her phone, "Katerin Ilyich of the Russian team will not participate in this Winter Youth Olympics."
"What?" Xu Chi and Ji Tang were both slightly surprised.
"Katerin and Ilyich both just turned 19," Jiang Lin said.
Ji Tiantian was stunned. She didn't notice this.
Earlier, she logged onto the Internet to check out the updates of her contestant friends and saw that Katerin and Ilich were breaking up and playing out a sadomasochistic love story on their social media pages. The two seemed to be in a very unhappy relationship recently.
Maybe this is the reason why they didn’t release any birthday-related updates.
At the age of 19, that means being excluded from the Winter Youth Olympics, which is open to 14-18 year olds.
The strongest rival will not appear in this Youth Winter Olympics.
After a brief moment of unconsciousness, Ji Tiantian's heart began to beat wildly.
This means... Does this mean that...
"We will try our best to win the gold medal." Tang Yi expressed Ji Tiantian's inner thoughts.
No one answered immediately.
The looks in Xu Chi and Jiang Lin's eyes as they looked at Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi gradually became solemn.
A match that was originally intended as a warm-up before the World Youth Championship suddenly became of great significance.
Whether there are strong opponents or not, the pressure of winning gold is always great.
Ji Tiantian clenched her fists gently and took a deep breath.
It doesn't matter, just treat it as a race. It's just that there are more people participating.
After eight days of training, the Austrian Youth Winter Olympics officially started. Ji Tang and athletes from various countries arrived at the venue one after another.
On the day of the short dance, many Chinese fans came. Feifei and Ni Chuan also arrived at the entrance of the competition venue in advance and chatted nervously with other fans.
"Since the Big Goose team is not here this time, I feel like we can get a chance at a gold medal."
"Aaaaah! I'm so nervous!"
"But I think we should not expect too much. Last time I watched Tiantang's public training, Tang Ge's performance was a bit unstable. His combined lift and twist were not that good."
"Yeah, even though the big goose isn't coming this time, I feel like the opponent is also very strong!"
"Ahhh, I'm so nervous! I must stay steady!"
Although the Big Goose Group was absent due to age, the stronger Canadian Giants Group and Spanish Childhood Sweethearts Group were all present.
The British and American groups will naturally also participate in the competition, but they are not enough to pose a threat to Ji Tang at the moment.
"Happy New Year, Tiantian, Tang, I hope we can all perform well this time." In the venue, Mia said to Ji Tang with a smile.
After a few familiar pairs of contestants exchanged brief greetings, they immediately began warming up for the short ice dance.
The short dance competition then began, with everyone dancing a smooth Latin dance on the ice.
Ji Tang and the Canadian team performed steadily, and Spain did not make mistakes due to nervousness like in the finals, and completed the short dance very well. The three pairs of combinations did not make any mistakes in the key points of the pattern dance, and the transition steps were all level three, which was unmatched by other combinations.
Top three rankings after the short dance:
1st place: Mia Lucas of Canada, 62.21
2nd place: Ana Relo of Spain 61.35
3rd place: China Ji Tiantian Tang Yi 60.80
Mia Lucas won the best individual short dance and the best short dance of the season with her top-notch edge technique.
"Ahhh, all three pairs are so strong. It seems that they are getting more and more skilled! The competition is so fierce!" There was a discussion in the audience.
"Although the strongest Big Goose group is gone, Sweet Tang is still third."
"how so……"
"In the short dance where the technical movements are not much different, Tiantang does not have much advantage, and it is still difficult for her to surpass Europe and the United States in program content points."
"Short dance mainly relies on the foundation of social dance. Our country has little foundation in this area. It's great that Tiantang can achieve this level!"
"It all depends on the free dance. Tiantang overtook the opponent in the finals by doing the free dance!"
"Wow, I heard that Tiantang's performance in the public training was not very good. Wow, what if there are mistakes in the combined lift and twist this time..."
"Ooooooh, so nervous!"
With everyone's anticipation, the free dance competition kicked off.
The order of free dance performance was in reverse order of the short dance scores, and Tiantang performed first ahead of their two pairs of strong opponents.
"Ahhh come on sweetie!"
Amidst nervous shouts, Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi slid onto the ice one after the other.
Ji Tiantian quickly got into the role just like before, slowly raised her slender hand, and revealed the proud smile that was unique to Miss Rose.
The soundtrack of "The Little Prince" sounded.
Following the music, Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi successfully completed a face-to-face joint rotation, a step sequence, and then a lift.
Ji Tiantian swung her slender legs backward in Tang Yi's arms. The two smiled at each other and turned forward at the same time.
The six-week joint lift was completed successfully.
Next, it is the synchronized twist step.
Ji Tiantian looked at Tang Yi, and Tang Yi also looked at her.
It's okay, we can do it.
With just a one-second eye contact, Ji Tiantian could read such information from Tang Yi's dark eyes.
They spun forward together to the music.
Ji Tiantian looked up and caught a glimpse of the cold light coming from Tang Yi's blade, which was so close to her.
But it's okay, it'll be okay.
She kept the smile on her face and continued to spin.
Taking risks silently and conveying beauty to the audience. This is the meaning of ice dancing.
One lap, two laps, three laps...five laps!
"Ahhhhhh!" The Chinese audience who came from afar cheered excitedly.
"It's done!"
Amid cheers and enthusiastic applause, Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi continued to spin.
The red skirt and black hair fluttered in the air.
The second set of four twists, and the third set of four twists are done in one go!
"Ahhhhh!" The applause rang out one after another.
Finally, it's the end.
"Ahhhhh!" Ice fans who had already watched the finals broadcast started screaming first.
Amid the screams, Xu Chi and Jiang Lin smiled at each other on the ice.
They were also very fortunate that their contestants were able to withstand the pressure, complete this outstanding performance, and reach the end very smoothly.
Just like in the finals, Tang Yi bent one leg and knelt on the ice with the other.
Ji Tiantian leaned on Tang Yi's legs and stretched out a hand to hold his cheek.
Ji Tiantian stopped gliding and breathed softly, and she stared at Tang Yi intently.
Unlike the tense finals, this time, she was very calm and could watch Tang Yi well.
He was panting harder than her, and in order to hold her steady, his legs and body were still tense. There were bloodshot eyes, and he looked like a giant beast in battle.
In order to protect their honor, he and she paid much more than it seemed.
She is the charging spear, and he is the shield guarding behind her.
No matter how she charged on the ice or flew through the air, the shield always stood silently by her side, never failing.
In the end, they won the battle.
She looked at him and her eyes became moist.
Only she knows how much she has paid, and she understands his efforts better.
Tang Yi slowly lowered his head under the guidance of Ji Tiantian.
The moment their foreheads touched, Ji Tiantian slowly closed her eyes, and a crystal tear rolled down and hit the ice.
The music stopped and she slowly raised the corners of her lips and smiled.
"Ahhhhhh!" Ni Chuan and Fei Fei screamed in the audience.
"It's so beautiful! I'm choking! Tiantang is the best!" Other Chinese and foreign audiences also screamed. Some people burst into tears, while others kept clapping.
"I came here to watch it because my friends told me that their little prince is very good-looking."
"Wow, it's really beautiful! So contagious..."
The music stopped, but neither Ji Tiantian nor Tang Yi stood up immediately.
Unlike the finals, this time both Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi were deeply immersed in the story.
The little prince traveled a long way back to his ice and snow world and came to the rose. This time, they will protect their ice and snow planet together.
Time seemed to stand still.
"Ahhhh! Sweetie! Sweetie!"
But in the end, the audience's cheers brought them back to reality.
Ji Tiantian smiled and sniffed, then stood up with Tang Yi and saluted to the audience.
"Good job, sweetie!"
The applause lasted for a long time.
Just by looking at the situation on the scene, Ji Tiantian knew that they had done a good job. They were already confident, and the cheers from the audience only made them more confident.
"Thank you." Ji Tiantian approached Tang Yi and spoke in a soft voice.
Thank you for accompanying me to complete this masterpiece. I have no regrets.
"The person you should thank most is yourself." Tang Yi slid closer and spoke to Ji Tiantian from a close distance.
He couldn't help but reach out and gently wiped away the tears on Ji Tiantian's face with his thumb. He held her hand and slid towards the exit of the ice surface amid cheers.
In the waiting area, the two quickly received their free dance results.
The technical score was 43.35, the program content score was 45.77, and the free dance score was 89.12.
When their free dance results were shown on the display, the numbers were followed by three small letters - SB, PB, and WL (world leader).
They respectively stated that this free dance result was their group's best result of the season and their best free dance result ever.
It is also the highest score in the free dance of the youth group this season.
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