Subject: CND Summer Olympics Special Issue (IX), August 5, 1992

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		 Special Issue on 1992 Summer Olympics (IX)

			 Wednesday, August 5, 1992

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1. August 4:  China Won Two Golds, Two Silvers and Five Bronzes in Diving, 
              Table Tennis, Archery, and Badminton ..................... 10
2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 4 ......... 58
3. Sun Shuwei Won Gold in 10-Meter Platform Diving ..................... 34
4. Lu Lin and Wang Tao Won Gold in Men's Table Tennis Doubles .......... 13
5. Chinese Taipei's Baseball Team Plays All Way to Final ............... 61
6. Ichiro Ogimura on the Development of Table Tennis ................... 78
7. Chinese Volleyball Player WU Dan Gets First Drug Suspension ......... 68
8. Tuesday's Medal Winners ............................................. 50
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1.  August 4:  China Won Two Golds, Two Silvers and Five Bronzes in Diving,
               Table Tennis, Archery, and Badminton .................... 10
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Source: News Agencies, 8/4, summarized by CND.

DIVING: Sun shuwei won the men's platform gold medal, which is his third 
gold medal in the Olympic. Xiong Ni won the bronze in the same event.

TABLE TENNIS: Lu Lin and Wang Tao won the gold medal in men's doubles.

ARCHERY: China won the silver in women's team event.

BADMINTON: Nong Qunhua and Quan Weizhen won the silver in women's doubles, 
and Lin Yanfen and Yao Fen won the bronzes in the same event; Huang Hua and
Tang Jiuhong won the bronzes in women's singles. 

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2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 4 ......... 58
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From:   Charlie Li, Jian Liu and Huijie.
Source: DJ & AP, August 4, 1992

Olympics: Overall Medal Standings (Through 171 Events)

  COUNTRY                GOLD   SILVER   BRONZE    TOTAL

Unified Team            33      28       20       81
United States           20      26       22       68
Germany                 16      13       22       51 
China                   15      19       14       48
France                   7       4       13       24
Australia                6       8        9       23
South Korea              9       4        8       21
Hungary                 10       7        2       19
Italy                    5       5        7       17
Japan                    3       7        7       17
Romania                  4       5        7       16
Canada                   6       1        6       13 
Cuba                     4       2        7       13
Britain                  4       2        7       13
Poland                   3       4        6       13
Spain                   10       1        0       11
Netherlands              2       3        6       11
New Zealand              1       4        4        9
Bulgaria                 1       5        2        8
Sweden                   0       4        4        8
Czechoslovakia           2       2        1        5
Indonesia                2       2        1        5
Norway                   2       2        0        4
Turkey                   2       1        1        4
Denmark                  1       0        3        4
North Korea              1       0        2        3
Independent Team         0       1        2        3
(Yugoslavia)
Belgium                  0       1        2        3
Brazil                   1       1        0        2
Estonia                  1       0        1        2
Austria                  0       2        0        2
Israel                   0       1        1        2
Latvia                   0       1        1        2
Finland                  0       1        1        2 
Slovenia                 0       0        2        2
Greece                   1       0        0        1 
Morocco (see note)       1       0        0        1
Kenya   (see note)       0       1        0        1
Peru                     0       1        0        1
Jamaica                  0       1        0        1
Namibia                  0       1        0        1
Ethiopia (see note)      0       0        1        1
Mongolia                 0       0        1        1
Surinam                  0       0        1        1
Bahamas                  0       0        1        1
Malaysia                 0       0        1        1

Note:
A disqualification in the 10,000 meters track and field event at the
Barcelona Olympics was overturned Monday.  Khalid Skah of Morocco was 
reinstated as the gold medal winner in the 10,000 meters.  Richard Chelimo 
of Kenya had been awarded the gold medal Monday after Skah was disqualified 
for receiving help from countryman Hammou Boutayeb.

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3. Sun Shuwei Won Gold in 10-Meter Platform Diving ..................... 34
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From:   Charlie Li, Jian Liu, and A CND reader, abridged by Gao Jie
Source: AP & UPI, 8/4

BARCELONA, Spain -- China's Sun Shuwei, 16, won his country's third gold 
medal in four Olympic diving events Tuesday, capturing the 10-meter 
platform competition ahead of American Scott Donie.

Sun, the world champion from Perth, Australia in 1991, moved into the lead 
as early as the third round and looked increasingly comfortable as the 
competition got into the closing stages. The slightly built Chinese youth 
finished with 677.310 points for the 10 dives while Donie notched 633.630.

Donie won the silver.

Favored Xiong Ni of China took the bronze medal with 600.150, but he 
admitted he had expected to perform much better.

Sun sealed the gold with a brilliant 10th dive, executing an almost
perfect inward 3 1/2 somersault which earned him four 10's from the judges
for a total of 99.96 points.

Sun, visibly nervous as he attempted to answer reporters' questions
following his gold medal performance, said he rated the nervousness
generated by the news conference "...just about the same as diving in
the Olympics". Of his 10th dive he said, "It's not easy and I have 
practiced it many times. I tried my best and I was particularly excited
about winning today."

Xiong, the silver medalist from Seoul, started shakily. He looked nervous 
in the early dives and scored poorly, leaving him next-to-last in a field 
of 12 after the second round. He also had a bad reverse three-and-a-half
somersault, the lowest scoring dive in the field of 12 in the eighth round.
"Before the Olympics we had one and a half months of training and I thought
my technique had improved. But when you are in a competition like the 
Olympics the psychological state is quite different," he said.

Donie moved into second after a good 3 1/2 backwards somersault in the
ninth round, which he said he is always nervous about doing. It was the
same difficult dive that Sun impressed the judges with to cap his medal.
I've only hit it about twice before in competition," Donie said. He scored
an 80.190 on the 3.3 level of difficulty with only Xiong scoring better in 
this round. "It's a lifetime of work down to one dive," he said.

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4. Lu Lin and Wang Tao Won Gold in Men's Table Tennis Doubles .......... 13
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From:   Charlie Li.
Source: AP, 8/4

BARCELONA, Spain -- China won its second table tennis gold medal of the 
Barcelona Games when Lu Lin and Wang Tao took the men's doubles title 
Tuesday. 

Lu, 23, and Wang, 24, defeated Germany's Steffen Fetzner and Jorg Rosskopf 
in the gold medal match 26-24, 18-21, 21-18, 13-21, 21-14. 

Two South Korean pairs won bronze medals - the team of Kang Hee-chan and 
Lee Chul-seung and the team of Kim Taek-soo and Yoo Nam-kyu. 

Lu and Wang were the silver medalists at the 1991 world championships. 
   
China's Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong had won the gold medal in women's doubles
Monday, defeating countrywomen Chen Zihe and Gao Jun in the finals. The 
women's and men's singles titles will be determined later this week. 

China also won two golds in the table tennis in 1988, the sport's first 
year in the Olympics.

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5. Chinese Taipei's Baseball Team Plays All Way to Final ............... 61
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From:   A CND reader
Source: UPI 8/4

L'HOSPITALET, Spain -- Despite the show of power put on Tuesday by Chinese 
Taipei, all Japan Manager Masatake Yamanaka wanted to talk about was the 
opposing pitcher.

Chien-Fu Kuo Lee fired a five-hitter and was supported by three homers from 
his offense, pitching Chinese Taipei into the Olympic gold-medal game with 
a 5-2 victory over Japan.

"The performance of Kuo Lee surprised me," Yamanaka said. "His pitches are 
very fast -- they touch on 50 meters a second (100 mph). At that speed, 
it's impossible to tell where the ball's coming from."

Kuo Lee, 3-0 in the Olympic tournament, struck out nine and walked four in
posting his second straight complete-game victory over Japan. Last week, he 
fired a three-hit shutout as Chinese Taipei took a 2-0 victory in the 
preliminary round.

"(Kuo Lee) is very good," Yamanaka said. "He has a good fastball, and his 
forkball is very difficult to hit. He also is good at changing speeds and 
confusing our hitters."

Kuo Lee has been Taipei's ace for several years. He was designated the Most 
Valuable Player at the 1990 world championships in Canada, even though Chinese
Taipei finished sixth in the tournament. He also was the winning pitcher in 
the 1990 amateur World All-Star Game and won the Best Pitcher trophy at the 
1990 President's Cup.

Chung-Yi Huang, Shih-Hsih Wu and Ming-Hsiung Liao each belted solo homers to
support the pitching of Kuo Lee. "We are very happy, as this is the first time
that we have had a chance to win the gold in baseball and we feel confident 
we can achieve this," Taipei Manager Lai-Fa Lee said.

The victory represented a complete turnaround of fortunes for Chinese Taipei
in Olympic baseball. Four years ago in Seoul, Taipei finished last in the 
tournament after losing all three opening-round games. This is the third time
that I have played in the Olympic Games and I am extremely pleased to have 
this opportunity to win the gold," Taipei left fielder Tai-Chuan Chiang said.

Japan reliever Masanori Sugiura, 1-1, took the loss by giving up home runs 
in each of his first two innings of work. With the score tied 2-2, Sugiura
relieved starter Masahito Kohiyama to begin the fifth. After he struck out
Kun-Hong Pai, Liao ripped an 0-2 pitch over the right-field wall for his 
third home run of the tournament.

Wu struck one inning later to give Chinese Taipei a 4-2 lead. With one out,
Wu lifted a 2-2 pitch that just cleared the right-field fence for his first
homer of the Olympics.

Sugiura drilled the next batter, Kuang-Shih Wang, in the kidney with a 
fastball on his first pitch. Wang dropped to the ground in a heap and
stayed there for several minutes, but eventually trotted to first base.

Chinese Taipei added an unearned run in the eighth. With one out,
Yaw-Tieng Chang reached first on a throwing error by shortstop Masafumi
Nishi. He went to third on a single by Chiang and scored on a sacrifice
fly by Wu. Chiang was thrown out trying to advance after first baseman
Koji Tokunaga dropped the relay throw, as catcher Yasunori Takami threw
in time to second base.

With the victory, Chinese Taipei advanced to face the winner of Tuesday's 
second semifinal between the United States and favored Cuba.

Chinese Taipei took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Huang led off the 
gamewith his first home run of the tournament. Japan came back to tie the 
game in the second on an RBI double by Nishi, and took a 2-1 lead in the 
third on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Shinichi Sato. "In the third inning
we had chances of getting ahead, but our batters weren't up to it," Yamanaka
said. Chinese Taipei tied the score again in the fourth. Chiang singled, was 
sacrificed to second by Wu and scored on a single by Wen-Chung Chang. 

[Editor's Note: AP, 8/4: Taiwan (6-2) plays Cuba (8-0) for baseball's first
Olympic gold medal Wednesday. The US and Japan, both 5-3, play for the 
bronze.]

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6. Ichiro Ogimura on the Development of Table Tennis ................... 78
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From:   A CND reader.
Source: UPI 8/4

BARCELONA, Spain -- Deng Yaping didn't grow up playing table tennis 
surrounded by wood paneling in a finished basement. She started at age 5 in 
Henan, China, where table tennis is no suburban amusement,
but a most serious business.

Deng, ranked No. 1 in the world, is playing Yu Sun of North Korea in
a women's quarterfinal Monday night in the Olympic table tennis arena, a
converted railway station with clean halls, good lights and flawless
air-conditioning.

Earlier in the day, Deng won the doubles gold medal. Now, in singles,
she has taken the first two sets, but Yu is making a go of things in the
third, much to the delight of North Korean athletes and officials in the
stands.

When the game is played right -- and it most assuredly is in Barcelona
-- table tennis is no idle recreation, but a blinding exchange, where a
white plastic ball can whiz across the net at 120 mph, overloaded with
maddening spin, rotating faster than the machinery whirring in an
airplane engine.

Ichiro Ogimura knows all about spins and smashes, having been a 12-
time world champion. Growing up in Japan he dabbled in baseball and
gymnastics, but table tennis became his calling. He says it's a game
that makes you think, a game that calls for "responsibility."

Now, as president of the International Table Tennis Federation,
Ogimura sits in the VIP lounge, overlooking the two courts, waiting for
the evening session to begin.

"Table tennis is not only quick but dynamic," he says. "It's also
like chess or bridge or mah-jong. It's quite fascinating."

Table tennis goes back to the 19th century. It was invented by the
English and called "Gossima." By the turn of the century, the American
game company Parker Brothers had a patent for what was called Ping-Pong
-- ping, for the sound the ball makes when it hits the racket; pong, for
the sound the ball makes when hitting the table.

The game grew in the 1920s and '30s across Europe and in the United
States, where immigrant Ping-Pong hustlers plied their trade. The
imperial reach of England sent the game bouncing toward Asia, where an
English cleric was said to have introduced the sport to Japan.

Ogimura estimates 300 million to 400 million are playing table tennis
worldwide, maybe half of those in China. It is has taken root in Japan
and both Koreas, and also in Sweden, Yugoslavia and Germany. By any
measure, it is one of the world's more popular and accessible sports.

Table tennis joined the political stage in 1971 with "Ping-Pong
Diplomacy," the exchange of teams that eased the way for renewal of
relations between the United States and China.

China had turned to table tennis after World War II. Ogimura says he
had been approached by the Chinese leadership, which was looking for a
sport that could restore the confidence of its people after the ravages
of war.

If the Japanese could succeed in table tennis, the thinking went, why
not the Chinese? China more than succeeded and is now the world's
predominant table tennis power, expected to win most of the table tennis
medals at these Olympics.

Such was China's might that at one time it would throw an occasional
match to a foreigner early in a tournament, a policy known as 
"friendship first." Or if two Chinese players were in the finals, as
was often the case, the coaches would decide who would win. That,
however, is part of the past.

Not so the game's diplomatic hold. This, after all, is a sport that
dispenses with anthems and flags at its tournaments, although it agreed
to follow tradition when it joined the Olympics in 1988.

In Barcelona, where Yugoslavia's sports teams have been fractured
like the country itself, an exception was made for table tennis: the
European women's doubles champions, a Bosnian and a Serb, would be
allowed to play together.

A united Korean table tennis team has already competed in major
international competition, and the door remains open for the Koreas at
next year's World Championships in Sweden.

"Sports offers many opportunities," Ogimura says. "To take a
positive step or not is up to the politicians. Some use boycotts, some
use merging. It's up to them."

On the court, China's Deng Yaping is back in control, winning the
third set 21-17 to advance to the semifinals. Over on court 2, it's a
lot tighter, with South Korea's Hyun Jung edging Romania's Emilia Ciosu
in five sets.

Ogimura watches from a white upholstered seat. He says table tennis
players today use too much spin, making rallies too short. He says that
is not good for the fans. His sport, he readily admits, needs all the
help it can get. It may be a fascinating game, but it remains a most
serious business.

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7. Chinese Volleyball Player WU Dan Gets First Drug Suspension ......... 68
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From:   Charlie Li & Zhongcheng Yan <[email-masked]>, 
        Abridged by CND.
Source: UPI & AP, 8/4.

BARCELONA, Spain -- A Chinese woman volleyball player became the first 
athlete to fail a drug test at the Barcelona Olympics.

Wu Dan, 24, tested positive for strychnine, a banned stimulant, the
International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday. "She is now banned from 
these Games," IOC spokeswoman Michele Verdier said at a news conference. "A 
severe warning has been sent to the doctors of the team of the People's 
Republic of China."

Wu was picked at random for a standard test Friday after a match against 
Holland. She later told doctors she had taken a Chinese folk medicine as a 
tonic.

Wu, who has played 183 times for China, faces suspension by the
International Volleyball Federation. Prince de Merode, head of the IOC 
Medical Commission, said Wu explained the strychnine probably came from a 
tonic she bought in China. "I would describe it as a hand-made preparation,
" he said. "She was very sincere. She said `I thought it was a good tonic.'
She had even recommended it to other members of the team as being good for
when you feel tired. It's an unfortunate case but we have to apply the 
necessary sanctions."

Merode blamed Chinese doctors for not educating their team about banned 
substances. He said the doctors had not asked the players if they were 
taking any medicine.

Professor Jordi Segura, head of the Olympic drug laboratory, said 
strychnine was a potentially lethal drug. "The line between it being a 
stimulant and a toxin is very thin," he said. "In the past athletes have 
died as a result."

Merode said Wu was tested at random after China's loss to the Netherlands 
last Friday. The "B" sample was analyzed later in the presence of the 
Chinese team delegation and also turned out positive.

Another team member was tested at random following another game but passed,
Merode said. Although Wu can no longer compete here, she can stay in 
Barcelona through the end of the Games. "The athlete can stay here as long 
as they see fit," Merode said. "There is no reson to be harsh with her."
Any further suspension of the athlete will be up to the International 
Voolleyball Federation.

Merode said the case highlighted a lack of education among athletes and 
doctors. "An athlete should not be taking anything without consulting the 
team doctor first," he said. "The athlete was wrong and the doctor was 
wrong."

Merode said the case differed from that of an athlete taking steroids to
improve performance. "It's  not completely an innocent mistake because in
any way she wanted to feel better from taking this powder," he said. "It's
not completely innocent. It's a mistake, but it's a question of education 
also."

Ten competitors were disqualified for drugs at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 
including Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his 100-meter
gold medal.

Although Wu is the first drug casualty of the Barcelona Olympics, three 
British athletes -- a sprinter and two weightlifters -- were sent home by 
their delegation before their competitions for failing drug tests that were
done prior to the Olympics.

Merode said 1,200 tests had been carried out so far in Barcelona and this 
was the only positive result. He declined to say whether any athlete had 
produced borderline test results. When asked if at least one other athlete
had been interviewed by the drug board, he said: "This is not a court. I 
will only say that there has been one positive case."

The official Xinhua news agency quoted a Chinese delegate saying the 
strychnine must have been in medicine Wu was taking because she felt ill.

"Wu Dan felt unwell before the China-Netherlands volleyball match on July 
31," the delegate told Xinhua. "She took a kind of Chinese medicine which is 
said to have strychnine, a substance which has led to the positive drug test."

China was a disappointment in women's volleyball. The world champion
runner-up and the bronze medalist at the Seoul Games, China ended the
preliminary stage in last place after losing all three of its matches -- to 
Cuba, Holland, Brazil.

Strychnine first appeared at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, well before the 
drug was banned. In those Games, U.S. marathon winner Thomas Hicks received 
several doses of strychnine sulphate and brandy from his handlers after he 
asked to stop and lie down.

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8. Tuesday's Medal Winners ............................................. 50
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>From:   Huijie and Charlie Li
Source:  DJ & AP  8/4
      
(THROUGH 12 OF 12 EVENTS)

TABLE TENNIS
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MEN'S DOUBLES
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Gold -- Lu Lin and Wang Tao, China   Silver --  Steffen Fetzner
and Jorg Rosskopf, Germany   Bronze -- Kang Hee-chan and Lee Chul-seung, 
Kim Taek-soo and Yoo Nam-kyu, both pairs from South Korea.

ARCHERY
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MEN'S TEAM 
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Gold -- Spain   Silver -- Finland    Bronze -- Britain 

WOMEN'S TEAM 
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Gold -- South Korea    Silver -- China    Bronze -- Unified team 

BADMINTON
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WOMEN'S SINGLES 
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Gold -- Susi Susanti, Indonesia    Silver -- Bong Soo Hyun, South Korea 
Bronze -- Huang Hua, China;  Tang Jiuhong, China 

WOMEN'S DOUBLES 
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Gold -- Hwang Ye Young and Chung So Young, South Korea 
Silver -- Nong Qunhua and Quan Weizhen, China 
Bronze -- Lin Yanfen and Yao Fen, China 
          Gil Young-Ah and Shim Eun-Jung, South Korea 

MEN'S SINGLES 
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Gold -- Alanbudi Kusuma, Indonesia    Silver -- Ardi Wiranata, Indonesia 
Bronze -- Hermawan Susanto, Indonesia; Thomas Steur-Lauridsen, Denmark 

MEN'S DOUBLES 
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Gold -- Kim Moon-Soo and Park Joo Bong, South Korea
Silver -- Rudy Gunawan and Eddy Hartono, Indonesia
Bronze -- Tian Bingyi and Li Yongbo, China; 
          Sidek Jalani and Sidek Razif, Malaysia

DIVING
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MEN'S PLATFORM
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Gold -- Sun Shuwei, China     Silver -- Scott Donie, United States 
Bronze -- Xiong Ni, China 

YACHTING
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SOLING CLASS 
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Gold -- Denmark  
Silver -- United States (Kevin Manahan, Jim Brady, Doug Kern)
Bronze -- Britain 

EQUESTRIAN
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TEAM JUMPING
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Gold -- Netherlands    Silver -- Austria     Bronze -- France 

FENCING
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WOMEN'S TEAM FOIL
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Gold -- Italy    Silver -- Germany     Bronze -- Romania 

WEIGHTLIFTING
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242.5-POUND DIVISION
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Gold -- Alexander Kurlovitch, Unified team 
Silver -- Leonid Taranenko, Unified team 
Bronze -- Manfred Nerlinger, Germany

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