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The George "Shorty" Hunt Family Here, head coach Al Ulbrickson directs his boys during practice on July 10, 1936. Luke Khoury The Washington crew is driving hard on the outside of the course, they are coming very close now to getting into the lead! The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to international debate about a boycott . summer of 1967. campus and translated to "excellence through great effort". Joe Wren, University of Washington Rowing And it was somewhat typical because people felt like; I just dont have the means to, to give food to this child. The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. crew came together, "LGB", the IRA's (coming back from many lengths down), Donaldson + Callif, LLP Stewards), Al Ulbrickson, Fil Leanderson, and numerous UW administrators. Rowing - Men's Single Sculls - Final A - Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo, Japan . mental effort expended in this race by the favored British likely ended their that lived it - has generated renewed interest in this remarkable story. Al Ulbrickson inherited a powerhouse rowing team in the fall of 1927 from his mentor Rusty Callow. Bob Moch says this is not the best recorder was on. shell the UW delivered? Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: The Americans walk into this thing, thinking theyre in a race. Horrible. "Oh - everybody didI knew for years I was going to Philip Walczak, Audience Engagement Editor the brilliant achievements of Jesse Owens. /* fbq('track', 'PageView'); */ Framerunner The Roger Morris Family Footage supplied by British Path This Tale of Adventure. The deciding race on Princeton's Lake Carnegie was literally breathless, with Penn rowing at 39 strokes a minute for most of the distance. Historically speaking, the 1936 Washington crew would Despite a sickly Don Hume, the boys won first place in their preliminary heat for the Olympic medaled race and now had 48 hours to rest until the pinnacle race on August 14. writer made it to the races, he saw a new world record established by the Kyla Ryan When a British pair finally beat a German shell, Henry and his CBS broadcast partner Cesar Saerchinger were relieved, according to Saerchingers book Hello, America!, as theyd had to stand up for the German anthem and the Horst Wessel song [the Nazi party anthem] after every event, until we were nauseated., A few minutes before 6 p.m. on Aug. 14, the final race was about to begin. They were full of Oxford and Cambridge boat race veterans. Germany, the crew became legendary. In 1936, nine working-class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin. Pennsylvania Club Crew, New York Club Crew, and Ky Ebright's California crew for Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Swing comes when you really have that harmony. Berlin 1936 Rowing Coxed Eights Men Results Berlin 1936 Rowing Event Go Summary Rank Team Results Notes G United States of America 6:25.40 S Italy 6:26.00 B Germany 6:26.40 4 Great Britain 6:30.10 5 Hungary 6:30.30 6 Switzerland 6:35.80 Olympic Games View All Athens 1896 Paris 1900 St. Louis 1904 London 1908 Stockholm 1912 Antwerp 1920 Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: The guys just absolutely could not see themselves racing without Don Hume in the stroke seat. Hello Select your address All. Newsreel Announcer (Archival): While the ice-bound easterners work out in gymnasiums, the Huskies pile into their shells. Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. Those listeners had a vested interest in the race. NBC Olympics On the water that night after it Seattle, Washington (no sound). Moch Photo. And that worked for him living out in the woods. On July 5th they met a polished Pennsylvania Club Crew, New York Club Crew, and Ky Ebright's California crew for the right to represent the country in the Olympics. He was so ill in Berlin that Ulbrickson replaced him at Chris Dodd In opposite fashion of the two years before, Daniel James Brown, Author: George Pocock was so much more than a boat builder. lamented the change to me many times during the two years we spent working Lenville P. O'Donnell 1) "Way Enough", Recollections of a Official Rowing results from the Berlin 1936 Olympics. Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (espaol). s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', had the honor of sitting down with many of the men who had contributed or He saw himself as disciplined. But in the repechage, they rowed to a Canadian best ever time of 5:53.73 to advance for a shot at the Olympic podium. Don Hume's sense of the boat and the men behind him was He just stayed cool and calm and then just mowed them down. The men's single sculls competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, was officially termed Eton Dorney. University of South Carolina MIRC (chartered in 1947), and would often be the recipient of no-cost hand-me-down shells In a separate ceremony in Berlin's Olympic stadium, Roger Morris, Charles Day, Gordon Adam, John White, James McMillin, George Hunt, Joe Rantz, Don Hume, and Robert Moch received their gold medals. is here -. world record time of 6:00.86 . He hunted and fished for food and made money by selling stolen liquor and working as a logger. n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; Bert Potwin The win completed the first ever sweep of the Poughkeepsie by a west coast crew - and was the first ever varsity win for Coach Ulbrickson.From Poughkeepsie the men traveled to Princeton New Jersey for the Olympic trials. Narrator: Thousands of fans attended regattas where they cheered their favorites from beaches, docks, rooftops, ferries and even open observation trains that ran the length of race courses. Start a Free Trial to watch Rowing at Tokyo 2020 on YouTube TV (and cancel anytime). heats; these three crews now had two days of rest before the final. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Within a thousand meters, they had started to move back on the field. There, the Rantzes troubles only deepened and Joe became a casualty of the desperation. Berlin 1936 Rowing Results. The Miracle 9 - 1936 Olympic Men's Rowing Team David Trujillo 610 subscribers Subscribe 895 Share 251K views 7 years ago The Miracle 9 - 1936 Olympic Men's Rowing Team Before the boys of. Radio Announcer (Archival): 60,000 spectators see the classic rowing field in the far west. Daniel James Brown, Author: Mostly, they were very proud of not having let one another down. Two weeks later, Princeton, New Jersey was the site of the Olympic Trials. The semifinals placed the 14 boats in 3 heats, with 4 or 5 boats per heat. was always interested in athletics and there was only one place I could go." Shane dillon as UW frosh and lightweight coach at the end of the 30's. Their world had gone very quickly from the sawmill, the edge of the forest to the biggest stage of all. By now we know what happens when this crew would Italy is still leading, Germany is second, and Washingtonthe United Stateshas come up very rapidly on the outside. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine sent the nation's largest ever delegation to these Games. High above the grandstand at the finish line, CBS' Bill Henry watched the final sprint unfold: It looks as though the United States [is] beginning to pour it on now! Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. I guess that little runt knew what he was doing.. minutes long: was a critically acclaimed, masterfully researched and produced Narrator: On October 9th, 1933 in Seattle, at the old airplane hangar that served as the University of Washingtons shell house, several dozen boys showed up for crew practice. display." Watch the opening scene of The Boys of '36. Rowing at University of Washington was established in 1901 with support from the local business community. Jack & Dorothy Tracy Collection Pocock was also a mentor to generations of Washington rowers. Brenna Verre, Sound Design At center front is coxswain Robert G. Moch. is the article from the December 29th, 1999 And he was really pushy, you know. Narrator: By mid-March, Hume was a regular in the lineup that Ulbrickson envisioned for his varsity boat. The event was won by Mah Drysdale of New Zealand, the nation's first victory in the event since 2000. Narrator: The freshmen champions returned to the shell house as sophomores to train for the upcoming 1935 spring racing season. memories remain emotional to this day, and he says of the eight men in the crew Narrator: The New York Times called the performance of the Washington crew stunning and serene.'. Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: It was a total gut check. the Washington freshmen and lightweights with Bud Raney from 1937 - 1939, then later when this two month timeline. purpose of this project is to add to the decor and college tradition of the Life in Rowing; Stan Pocock; pg. All the while, he remained in school. Trials, the Olympic final, his post-race travels and the beginning of Timothy Egan, Rowing Historian: They were considered rubes from the far west taking on the elite. As somebody who had sort-of been a throw away kind of person, he found himself being thrown away again. won the Harvard-Yale race in all but two of the years he coached). (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). The Hume, the stroke of the crew, was tasked with setting the pace for the seven oarsmen rowing behind him. "Somewhere about the middle of the race I knew we were not doing well and we were behind, he told me. Daniel James Brown, Author, The Boys in the Boat: A day came when Joe came home from school and he found the family car with the whole family in it and all kinds of luggage in it. On July 5th they met a polished Some of the kids had a hard time with that. article was written. Hume's eyes remained closed for most of the warm-up, and his breathing seemed labored. Washington. we (the UW) will donate a shell to Greenlake if you will take the Loyal Shoudy from Ah, the Americanstheir powerful spurts are irresistible! He was gonna put Don Hume in the boat. Chittenden locks and - Psychologically this was a hard game that these kids were involved in. And he cant figure out why Joe Rantz is so uneven. And rest was important for Washington. course, don't miss our history section - before Hitler and 120,000 frantic German fans, and attended some of the games. This June, Washingtons varsity mens crew set a new course record in winning the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship. wouldn't - it certainly catches the electricity of the moment so many years ago. Ouvrir le menu. 1930 - 1939. occasions to talk about his time as both a coxswain and a coach, from 1933 (the Hume brought the stroke down to a 36, When the boys arrived in Germany they didn't stay in the Olympic Village, but rather in these police barracks in the town of Kopenick, where the rowing Olympic competitions would be held. Marilynn Moch, Daughter of Bobby Moch: My dad liked to play mind games on the others, primarily coxswains, but also the guys that were rowing if he could think of a way to do it. Joe Rantz, Jim "Stub" McMillin, Chuck Day and Bobby Moch take a break from the water in 1936 in New Jersey during the Olympic qualifying trials. American Experience is a production of WGBH, which is solely responsible for its content. And for the next hour or so they talk about rowing sitting in President Roosevelts parlor. fbq('track', 'ViewContent'); shoulders from Greenlake to Lake Washington in the snow, rowing through the The U.S. finished with a time of 6:08.69, with Romania finishing in a 6:09.95. EN. The first test for this crew came in April on Lake The crew had to take the long route to the final after finishing second in their heat. There, Rantz and his teammates would face crews from Cornell, Columbia, and Penn -- opponents with backgrounds very different than their own. The event was held from 12 to 14 August, and was won by a United States crew from the University of Washington. Their ethic is because these guys worked on farms and crappy jobs. eight. Romania made a late charge over the final 250 meters, but the U.S. held on to win by 1.26 seconds. The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. Somebody said, 'You know this thing is going to fly.' The Nazi leader had regarded the Olympics as a chance to introduce the world to the glory of a new Germany and prove Aryan supremacy through athletic triumph. They walk up, and knock on the door and one of the Roosevelt sons comes to the door. Once in Germany, the team stayed near Lake Grunau, the site of the Olympic competition, at Koepenik. Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Great Britain win gold, Germany win silver and the Netherlands win bronze in men's eight rowing in Rio 20. the Loyal Shoudy) were a joy to row. The Husky Clipper. So it was an all-star crew. And so there was a breakdown of trust in the shell house. finishing sprints" was executed to the letter by his team, casting all three Radio Announcer (Archival): In a surging drive, the California Bears nose out the Cornell shell. He had somebody that wanted him. Narrator: On a chilly August day in 1936 just outside Berlin, Germany, a team of American boys prepared to row the biggest race of their lives at the Olympic Games. The Miracle 9 - 1936 Olympic Men's Rowing TeamBefore the boys of Miracel on Ice, there was another miracle team, and they were the 1936 NCAA Rowing Team of the Washington Huskies.This group of boys are among the greatest underdog champions in American history because of their unique and inspiring story. Once in Germany, the team stayed near Lake Grunau, the site of the from the UW. cassette tapes I made of our interviews. The team worked out twice a 1936 senior crew managers Bob Edwards and Bob Lund. When he was four years old, he watched his mother die of lung cancer. more about Tim Koch Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: These guys were nobodies. Will Pickard That was actually faster than the previous world best in the event, but a new global standard was set by Romania (5:52.99) in the same race. And he is himself a rower so he invites them in. About the Book . rhythm back, to which Ulbrickson reportedly said "Well he doesn't pull Alan J. Meininghaus ITN Source Film Archives, Inc. waterit'd be a 'zep' and that's all you could hear - the oarlock Menu Fermer le menu Rowing. amazingly - rowing her the 40+ miles, from pre-dawn to night, on the winter Were gonna leave, Joe but the thing is, youre gonna have to stay behind. Radio Announcer (Archival): There is not one lengths difference between the first five crews! The boat slows down. [1] There were 14 boats (126 competitors) from 14 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. Narrator: One member of the Washington crew, well acquainted with that hardship, was a 19-year-old named Joe Rantz. Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, Credit: University of Washington Archives, Credit: Poughkeepsie Public Library District, Credit: Way's Rare & Second Hand Bookshop, Henley. Hume's teammates, however, told the coach they couldn't do it without him, so Ulbrickson relented and Hume was back in. (American women also won the 100 meters and the 4-by-100 relay.) ustupski / verey . Did he know about crew before he {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? Germany. water. the time. some choosing to travel Europe, others going straight home. And they didnt have the kind of confidence in each other that they had to have to be consistently competitive. David Clay Large, Historian: Theyre given uninterrupted training. But the Washington freshmen were the revelation of the regatta, capturing their national collegiate title by five boat lengths over Syracuse. In the final, Cmmerer had the best start, being trailed by Hradetzky and [Jaap Kraaier]. Peter Mallory: He could go puh-puh-puh-puh. The 1924 Yale crew that won the gold medal in Paris, for instance, featured both a Rockefeller and Benjamin Spock (yes, Dr. Spock). Jim Mueller, Getty Images and was VBC manager his senior year. Daniel James Brown, Author: As the boats are in their third mile, Ulbrickson cant quite believe what hes seeing because Bobby Moch has got the boat four lengths behind the leaders. There were no interviews. In 1936, a rowing team from the University of Washington stunned the world by winning a gold medal in eight-oar crew at the Berlin Olympics in front of a crowd that included Adolph Hitler. alternative was not spoken that day. The Nazis had rounded up Jews and political opponents in the town in 1933, tortured them, killed many, and then dumped their bodies into the local waterways where the boys would row for the gold. ldszb100bclqa1###totoldszb100bclqa1 2 1000mm 1 ldszb100bclqa1 ###totoldszb100bclqa1 2 1000mm 1 . have been memorable without the Olympic victory. On June 22, 1936 the varsity boys beat rival Cal in Poughkeepsie and advanced to the Olympic trials in Princeton in hopes of qualifying for Berlin. Bob describes the 1936 Olympic race, and what Husky Crew meant to him here - They would race for the national championship on June 22. Daniel James Brown, Author: He actually worked in a pulp mill as a kid. Narrator: With the Olympics just months away, Ulbrickson was determined to put his mistakes of the previous year behind him. Two months later all three crews were back in Berlin was voted to host the 1936 Olympic Games in 1931, before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. Daniel James Brown, Author: The crowd is already chanting, Deutschland, Deutschland, Deutschland. They dont actually hear the call of the start of the race. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race. second. decision. It must have been absolutely deafening. I think for Joe Rantz winning that gold medal, I think after all hed been through, he knew he was valuable and he wasnt the disposable boy he had once been. sphinx-like face never as much as quivered. This photo, published in a German cigarette company's review of the Olympics, shows Robert Moch, George Hunt, John White, and Joe Rantz in Indian headdresses. Olympiade) and commonly known as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona at the 29th IOC Session on 26 April 1931. final: "the finest crew he had ever coached seemed beaten beyond all doubt. Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: It would have been really, really easy to lose. Read the rest of Slates coverage of the London Olympics. The U.S. Olympic women's rowing eight has won 10 straight rowing world championship and Olympic titles, dating back to 2006, and they don't plan to let that streak break at the Rio Games. And a shell like the Husky Clipper (and William Pickard The 1930's, or coxswain Bob Moch '36 Since 1978, Coxswains have used an amplification system commonly called a CoxBox, but in the 1930's Moch used a simple megaphone to make calls to his rowers. And for somebody like Joe Rantz that made all the difference. Italy and Germany vied for the lead with England in the mix. In 1936, like I said, Berlin, Germany hosted the games in an attempt to create positive propaganda that promoted Adolf Hitler and his Aryan race. Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: Swing -- its the sweet spot. Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2013. Braedan Dast the head coaching position at Harvard. GB Rowing Team lots of W's in 1936 (literally and figuratively). Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: These kids were very representative of the Pacific Northwest, which was raw, newly shaped. Recorded G.R.O.W. And these guys were in the way if they werent gonna pull their oar. In 1936, nine young rowers from the University of Washington electrified the nation when theywon goldat the Berlin Olympics. Bill Knight published the story in the They were thrashing. A total of 240 athletes, 125 men and 115 women, took part in 21 sports. If youre a great athlete and you dont make it to the Olympics and you dont get a gold medal, then that, thats a fire burning all the time. UCLA Film & Television Archive Browns evocation of Seattle in the Depression years is dazzling his. They would row the first two miles of that race in cruise control. leader, Germany, at least a length up. and was VBC manager his senior year. This collision produced devastating consequences. They were placed in 3 heats, with 3 or 4 boats each. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: So these guys were hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Daniel James Brown: Al Ulbrickson was watching from a balcony nearby with George Pocock and he fought his way through the crowd trying to get to the boys to congratulate them. Radio Announcer (Archival): The Huskies of Washington proceed to sweep the river, surging to victory to become the ace candidate for the Olympics. Bob Moch was varsity coxswain in 1935 and 1936, coached The Joe Rantz Family Timothy Egan, Author: It was emblematic of other kids during the Great Depression. The team worked out twice a day on the lake, and dined at night with all of their competitors in the same mess hall. began to increase the stroke rate. mess hall. seemed to weigh so much is because of their narrow gunwales, which About a 100 meters later and Washington and Italy are Every seat in the varsity boat was up for grabs. crews were together, we started out, just going 26, 27 - just going home - we Narrator: The Germans had another distinct advantage in the race: the best lane assignment -- even if it appeared to have been dubiously determined. INTERACTIVE:How badly would Usain Bolt destroy the best sprinter of 1896? . "The Shoudy was the same 1940 Loyal Shoudy you mention. INTERACTIVE:How badly would Usain Bolt destroy the best sprinter of 1896? But that was really a problem for him when it came to crew. BJ Cummings Narrator: After just one season on the team, Don Hume was being talked about as perhaps the best Washington stroke-oar -- the rower charged with keeping the rhythm of the boat -- since Al Ulbrickson himself. He took his seat in the racing shell every day the same way he approached everything: set on defying anyone who doubted him. Radio Announcer: 40 meters to goand they have half a boat length on Italy! They literally came from nowhere to beat all the best rowing M8 crews in the country and later the world. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms. is here - The Fighting the quartering headwind in lane six, the Huskies In addition to the Olympic host city of Tokyo, matches were also played in Kashima, Saitama, Sapporo, Rifu and Yokohama.. Narrator: The varsity crew was named four months before the Olympics. blur some of the details - the fact remains that this is the first Husky As the final eight-oared race approached, Ulbrickson had one last huddle with the nine boys in the boat. When the Manhattan arrived in Hamburg, the team was relieved to be back on land. Every in-boat, water-level shot in the clip below was filmed before the final race, with fanciful audio mixed in. He really in many ways was a sage. "I had felt that if we rowed the best we knew how, we could get there," he told me in 2004, a year before his death at age 91. See results Go. This page was last edited on 19 January 2022, at 04:04. Ulbrickson thought about it for a bit and he decided this was a case where he had to trust the instincts of the boys. the west to be bolted back together and raced by the lightweight team. In his daily logbook, he added another name he hadn't written for some time. TOKYO (Reuters) -The final day of Olympic rowing at Tokyo's Sea Forest Waterway delivered thrills as four-time Olympian Emma Twigg of New Zealand and Greece's Stefanos Ntouskos raced Olympic. only spanned the last 200 - 300 meters, not the full length. 2016 WGBH Educational Foundation best of central mass 2022. In 1912, Pocock was recruited to build racing shells for the University of Washington and other collegiate rowing programs around the country. Narrator: On the morning of July 15th, two and a half weeks before the start of the Olympics, the boys from Washington who had previously only been on lakes and rivers, began a journey across the Atlantic Ocean. The United States team, a crew from the University of Washington, came very close to missing the trip to Berlin. Al Ulbrickson had won two national championships as a Husky, but never got to an Olympics. Gordon Adam and Don Hume had contracted an illness earlier in the week. competition from that year led to better oarsmanship a year later. stowing away in baggage cars, Al Ulbrickson and Tom Bolles, and driving coast to scenes out of Daniel James Brown's book, ake Washington in the snow, rowing through the He was very competitive. He remembered being at her funeral. . The winner of each repechage heat (3 boats) rejoined the semifinal winners in the final, with the other boats (8 total) eliminated. way the final race played out. I remember his words exactly To feed himself he had to work at the camp kitchen. Ulbrickson's now The crowd's roar became deafening as the three boats matched each other stroke for stroke. This was the Americans' third Olympic gold in a row. They were the class of the Olympics. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he was planning for war. Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: He had a natural feel for the rhythm of the water and how fast the boat would move. to PLU to ask if they would consider giving the Husky Clipper back to the The Australian rowers' Tokyo haul already exceeds that from Rio, where they won one gold medal and two silver. They used their hands as claws and their backs as levers, you know. CriticalPast Of course For both the men and women of Washington, the shared experience of among the team as the "Tomato Can", and Finally, on September 9, 1967, the Husky Clipper, in a formal senior crew manager, holds the bar as coach Al Ulbirckson and President Lee The Americans had to make their move. Tyee photo. Weston Brown The next day, April 13th, the coachs faith was rewarded when the sophomores edged out a victory at the annual Pacific Coast Regatta, a dual race against Cal. team, some on a local stage, but each one as important as the next. I know I probably let my aggressive interest in this With his eyes closed and his mouth slack, he barely pulled his oar during warm ups. The noise swelled, and the rowers sensed the finish line closing in. Varsity Boat Club - note the house picture in the bottom Al Ulbrickson III The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images didn't even rattle on the release." Italy and Germany had turned in relatively slow qualifying times; they were assigned lanes one and two, protected from the wind. conversations covered multiple topics, including his rowing career, stories of GoHuskies has an interesting summary of the stats and figures showing how the They find a gardener who points it out to them. } By 1936, The last 200 meters were a quarters that night. The combined rowing experience - as athletes or coaches - of these three men was them (Greenlake), and give the Husky Clipper back to us. that special crews experience - still to this day. I recently re-visited some of the Finding My Father. is the article from the December 29th, 1999 Under coach Tom Terhaar, they have been unbeaten for 10. George Pocock himself). Now England! crew began to sprint. Below you will find a continuous collection of information; some of it Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: There is this element of redemption but theres also this element of achieving a goal through trust and brotherhood. crew in action - they're scheduled to row this afternoon". later when this Narrator: On the morning of the final race, with Humes fever rising once again, Ulbrickson announced that he was going to remove his stroke from the boat, and replace him with an alternate. From Poughkeepsie the men traveled to Princeton New Three They were rowing poorly in workouts and the chest cold Don Hume had contracted on the trip over had gotten worse, not better. But Cal and the rest of the field soon caught up. slowest was Italy. 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