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It’s Official: Chris Horner Is Out

              Chris Horner (left) now joins his teammate Janez Brajovic on the sidelines.                                                       Photo: Zap                            

American Chris Horner is out of the Tour de France after fracturing his nose and suffering heavy brusing in a crash on the seventh stage, his RadioShack team said Saturday. Following the stage Horner could be heard muttering questions in a very confused state.

   Horner, 39, crashed 35km from the finish line of Friday’s 218km stage, which he finished in last place at 12min 41sec behind stage winner Mark Cavendish.

   “Chris is better, the scans he has undergone are reassuring,” team manager Johan Bruyneel of the Tour of California winner who spent the night in hospital for observation.

   Horner was one of the four leaders of Lance Armstrong’s former team along with Slovenian Janez Brajkovic, who quit the Tour on Wednesday, American Levi Leipheimer, who lost valuable time because of Friday’s falls, and German Andreas Kloden, fifth in the overall standings.

 Citing the fractured nose, concussion and heavy brusing on his right leg RadioShack’s team doctor  Allain Gallopin, said the idea of Horner continuing on was impossible.

   “He suffered a real blow but health-wise there’s nothing to worry about,”  Gallopin added. “He’s got a broken nose, concussion and severe bruising on his right leg which, in any case, would prevent him from pedalling. “He finished the stage because on the Tour, you just don’t abandon like that.”

WITH HORNER OUT… German Andreas Kloden will shoulder RadioShack’s bid for the yellow jersey on the Tour de France after the American outfit’s nightmare seventh stage on Friday.      RadioShack had suffered a first major blow earlier this week when Slovenian ace Janez Brajkovic crashed out of the race.

   With Leipheimer now in 50th place at over four minutes off the pace of most of the yellow jersey favourites, sports director Alain Gallopin said the leadership dilemma they had at the start last week is now settled.

   “Levi is in okay condition but he’s lost a lot of time. But we have to continue and we have Andreas Kloden,” said the Frenchman. “Since the start of the Tour I’ve been asked how I manage with four team leaders. The issue has now been settled by the race itself.”

   Earlier Saturday team manager Johan Bruyneel had said of the Tour of California champion: “Chris is better, the scans he has undergone are reassuring.”

   Kloden, a former podium finisher on the race, was in fifth overall at only 10sec behind Norwegian Thor Hushod prior to Saturday’s eighth stage to Super-Besse Sancy. Road Bike Action and AFP

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Chris Horner joins NBC's Tour de France broadcast team

'I have to be good, and I have to enjoy it' 2013 Vuelta winner tells Cyclingnews

Chris Horner will move from the bicycle seat to the broadcaster's chair this July for the Tour de France , joining the on-air team for the American NBC Sports television network during the French Grand Tour.

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"I'm going back to the Tour," a typically upbeat Horner told Cyclingnews Friday evening from his home in Bend, Oregon, where he had just completed a 144km ride earlier in the day.

Horner will be part of NBC Sports' daily 'traveling studio' for the three-week race, providing analysis and interviews before and after each stage. Paul Burmeister will return to host the studio segments, with retired US pro Christian Vande Velde also reprising his analyst role, according to an announcement published on the NBC Sports website . Vande Velde and Horner will also be called upon to add to the the play-by-play coverage from Bob Roll, who will move from the studio to call the action with Phil Liggett after Liggett's longtime broadcast partner Paul Sherwen died in December .

Horner said he will fly to Europe on July 2 to start preparing for the three-week race that starts July 6 in Brussels, Belgium.

"They have some new material that they want us to learn for the show, so we’ll go over and learn a little bit of that, practice on it, and then we’ll shoot from the hip," he said. "They throw you in the deep water, the deep end of the pool, and hopefully it all works out well."

Horner got an introduction to race commentary this year with NBC Sports at the Ardennes Classics Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He said he sat in and watched Vande Velde for Flèche and then picked up the live microphone for Liège with the understanding that it would also serve as an on-the-job tryout for this year's Tour de France.

He got the call-up not long after that and has been waiting for NBC Sports to make the official announcement. He'll soon find out if providing expert analysis and concise opinions for daily broadcasts over three weeks will turn into a new avenue where he can excel in cycling.

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"I’m really good at chatting and talking about bike racing," he said. "But for TV you have to cut it a little bit shorter, you have to be to the point, you have to be real clear and crisp, and so that’s the part I don’t have experience with. We’ll see if I can do it and if I’m good at it, and, of course, will I enjoy it? All those factors go in. You gotta be good at it, and then I have to enjoy it too.

"With anything, when you haven’t done it before, you don’t know exactly what you’re doing," Horner admitted. "I have an idea of what it is because I’ve been a pro bike racer and been around bike racing my whole life, but no one knows exactly what it is until you’ve sat in that chair."

Unlike the one-day races Horner worked for NBC earlier in the season, he'll have three weeks in July to learn the ropes of his new role as journalist and just where he fits into the media food chain at the world's biggest race.

"They asked me, ‘Would you be good at talking to all the directors and all that stuff?’ I said, ‘Well I think when I have the NBC badge on they’ll actually take the call, so I probably will be. You can’t go bigger than NBC, right?'" Horner told Cyclingnews . "But even when I said that, I don’t really know that it’s true. I assume that when you call and they know you’re NBC that they pick up the phone, but maybe they don’t."

'Regardless of what I do in life, I'm still riding the bike'

Horner, 47, raced professionally for more than two decades and competed in the Tour de France seven times, most recently in 2014 with Lampre-Merida. He won the Vuelta in 2013 at the age of 41, but his team kept him out of the Spanish Grand Tour the following year when his cortisol levels dropped below the threshold considered healthy.

A 2012 Olympian, Horner earned his best-ever Tour de France result with RadioShack in 2010, when he finished ninth overall. He raced his last Grand Tour at the 2014 Tour de France, but Horner competed on the UCI Continental level in 2015 and 2016 with Airgas-Safeway and Lupus Racing, respectively. He returned briefly last year with Team Illuminate, competing in the USPro championships in Knoxville, Tennessee, as well as the Sibiu Cycling Tour in Romania.

Earlier this month, Horner competed in the Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, finishing 17th overall in a race won by 'veteran' US rider Travis McCabe (Floyd's Pro Cycling), currently 17 years Horner's junior.

"I rode my bike 90 miles today," Horner told Cyclingnews  Friday evening. "I don’t get paid to ride my bike and I’m out there doing 90 miles – like a crazy lunatic. But I love it. I really do. I always have. The fact that people paid me to do it just made it that much more fun. 

"Regardless of what I do in life, I’m still riding the bike, I’m still watching bike races on TV, and when [NBC Sports producer] David Michaels called and said, ‘Hey, are you interested in doing the Tour?’ I was like, ‘Absolutely.’

"They’d asked me six or eight years ago, and I said no because I was still bike racing. Doing TV commentary for bike races was maybe the number-two best job, but the number-one best job I was already doing, so it didn’t make much sense. Now I just don’t have those legs, unfortunately.

"I told David, I said, ‘I’m going to be watching the Tour at home for six hours a day, or I could be at the Tour de France watching it and telling stories. So, yeah, I’d love to go with him and go do it. It’s a win-win."

The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 6, in Brussels and concludes Sunday, July 28, on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. 

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Growing up in Missoula, Montana, Pat competed in his first bike race in 1985 at Flathead Lake. He studied English and journalism at the University of Oregon and has covered North American cycling extensively since 2009, as well as racing and teams in Europe and South America. Pat currently lives in the US outside of Portland, Oregon, with his imaginary dog Rusty.

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Cycling veteran Chris Horner joined NBC Sports’ cycling coverage as a studio analyst in 2019, working on events include the Tour de France, Critérium du Dauphiné, Amgen Tour of California, and Paris-Roubaix.

Horner became a professional cyclist in 1995 and has earned over 70 career victories, including winning the 2013 Vuelta a España, 2011 Tour of California and 2010 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco. A four-time USA Cycling National Racing Calendar Champion, Horner was a member of the USA cycling team at the 2012 London Olympics and participated in the Tour de France seven times during his career, placing ninth overall in 2010.

Born in Japan, Horner currently resides in Bend, Oregon.

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Tour de France 2023: How to watch, schedule, odds and storylines you need to know

The Tour de France returns Saturday for its 110th edition, this time beginning in Spain’s Basque Country, and will end on Sunday, July 23, in Paris. As always, the race — which recently got the “Drive to Survive”-style docuseries treatment on Netflix — will feature 21 stages. There will be eight flat stages, four hilly stages, eight mountain stages with four summit finishes, just one individual time trial (down from the usual two) and two rest days.

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How to watch the 2023 Tour de France

Peacock, NBC and USA Network will carry the Tour in the United States (NBC Sports and the Tour recently announced a six-year extension of their exclusive U.S. rights agreement, which now runs through 2029).

Peacock will stream every stage live and have daily pre-race shows. The streamer will also have stage replays, recaps, highlights, rider interviews and more, NBC Sports said.

Phil Liggett, a.k.a. “the voice of cycling,” will be on the call for his 51st tour, joined by analyst Bob Roll. Steve Porino and former professional cyclist Christian Vande Velde will also be reporting from on site, with the latter giving real-time updates while traveling the course on a motorcycle.

For the first time, NBC Sports’ broadcasts will feature clips from team radio, like communication between team directors and riders.

FloSports will stream the event in Canada.

How long is the Tour de France route?

This year’s route runs about 3,406 kilometers (about 2,116 miles). Stage 2, the longest single stage, is 209 km (about 130 miles).

The 22.4-km (about 14-mile) time trial will be held in the Alps in Stage 16.

How much money is on the line?

A total of €2.3 million (about $2.5 million) will be given out to the teams and riders, including €500,000 (about $546,000) to the winner of the overall individual classification.

How many riders are on the Tour?

Each of the 22 teams this year has eight riders, making for 176 total.

Recent Tour de France winners

• 2022 — Jonas Vingegaard (DEN)
• 2021 — Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
• 2020 — Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
• 2019 — Egan Bernal (COL)
• 2018 — Geraint Thomas (GBR)
• 2017 — Chris Froome (GBR)
• 2016 — Chris Froome (GBR)
• 2015 — Chris Froome (GBR)
• 2014 — Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
• 2013 — Chris Froome (GBR)

Riders to watch

This year is expected to be a two-man battle for the general classification between two-time winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), who emerged triumphant last year.

The 24-year-old Pogačar, regarded as the rider of his generation, was poised for a third straight title last year before Vingegaard, backed by a strong Jumbo-Visma squad, spoiled the campaign in the mountains. While the Slovenian Pogačar often has to fend for himself, the Danish Vingegaard, 26, has the backing of a “superteam” that includes do-it-all Belgian Wout van Aert and American Sepp Kuss to deliver him the yellow jersey.

Pogačar will undoubtedly be out for revenge, but questions are swirling about his fitness after he broke his wrist in a race earlier this year and had to miss some time. Whichever way the race goes, it’s always worth a reminder that this pair gave us an iconic moment of sportsmanship last year.

In the “last dance” category, we have British veteran Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), French fan favorite Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Slovakian sprint star Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies). All three plan to retire after the 2023 season (though Sagan said he plans to compete in mountain biking at the Paris Olympics).

Cavendish, 38, has 34 stage wins on the Tour — tied for the most ever with Eddy Merckx (who reached the mark in 1975). Cavendish is seeking one last win in his 14th Tour to retire as the record-holder after sitting out last year.

The 33-year-old Pinot won the young rider classification in 2014 and has since won three stages, most recently in 2019 (when he had to abandon the race with two stages to go after tearing a leg muscle while in fifth place).

Sagan, 33, owns a record seven green jersey wins and has won 12 stages, the last coming in 2019.

Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), the last man not named Pogačar or Vingegaard to win the Tour, will be in the peloton for the first time since 2020 after returning from a near-fatal crash in January 2022.

If you’ve followed the last few tours, you might also be wondering what’s up with Primož Roglič. The 2020 runner-up had to abandon the 2021 Tour before the ninth stage, and after starting the 2022 race as a Jumbo-Visma co-leader with Vingegaard, dropped out before the final rest day due to injuries. He did win the Giro d’Italia in May, but said he would take a break from racing to celebrate.

Beyond the general classification, you can monitor the additional races within the Tour: for the green jersey (points classification, generally considered a sprint competition) and polka dot jersey (king of the mountains).

Tour de France GC odds, via BetMGM

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) — +110
• Tadej Pogačar (SLO) — +115
• Jai Hindley (AUS) — +1400
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN) — +2500
• Enric Mas (ESP)/Richard Carapaz (ECU)/Ben O’Connor (AUS)/Adam Yates (GBR) — +3300
• Simon Yates (GBR)/David Gaudu (FRA) — +5000

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Chris Horner joins NBC’s Tour de France broadcast team

Chris Horner will move from the bicycle seat to the broadcaster’s chair this July for the Tour de France , joining the on-air team for the American NBC Sports television network during the French Grand Tour.

“I’m going back to the Tour,” a typically upbeat Horner told Cyclingnews Friday evening from his home in Bend, Oregon, where he had just completed a 144km ride earlier in the day.

Horner will be part of NBC Sports’ daily ‘traveling studio’ for the three-week race, providing analysis and interviews before and after each stage. Paul Burmeister will return to host the studio segments, with retired US pro Christian Vande Velde also reprising his analyst role, according to an announcement published on the NBC Sports website . Vande Velde and Horner will also be called upon to add to the the play-by-play coverage from Bob Roll, who will move from the studio to call the action with Phil Liggett after Liggett’s longtime broadcast partner Paul Sherwen died in December .

Horner said he will fly to Europe on July 2 to start preparing for the three-week race that starts July 6 in Brussels, Belgium.

“They have some new material that they want us to learn for the show, so we’ll go over and learn a little bit of that, practice on it, and then we’ll shoot from the hip,” he said. “They throw you in the deep water, the deep end of the pool, and hopefully it all works out well.”

Horner got an introduction to race commentary this year with NBC Sports at the Ardennes Classics Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He said he sat in and watched Vande Velde for Flèche and then picked up the live microphone for Liège with the understanding that it would also serve as an on-the-job tryout for this year’s Tour de France.

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Tour de France 2023 TV Schedule on NBC Sports

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The world’s most prestigious cycling race, the Tour de France , this year starts in in Bilbao, Spain, where the peloton begins a grueling three-week odyssey over 2,115 miles.

NBC and USA Network combine for live and tape-delayed race coverage on TV July 1-23, but Peacock has live start-to-finish streaming coverage of all stages, and Peacock is the exclusive live presenter of the final stage on Sunday, July 23, as the race concludes at the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

NBC Sports’ cycling play-by-play caller Phil Liggett broadcasts his 51st Tour de France, joined by analyst Bob Roll. Liggett and Roll are on-site at each stage, along with reporters Steve Porino and Christian Vande Velde.

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2023 Tour de France TV & Streaming Schedule on NBC Sports

All Times Eastern. All live coverage on NBC and USA Network is also available on the NBC Sports app.

Saturday, July 1 6am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:30am Stage 1: Bilbao/Bilbao (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 1: Bilbao/Bilbao (LIVE), Peacock & NBC

Sunday, July 2 2am Stage 1: Bilbao/Bilbao (encore), USA Network 6am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:05am Stage 2: Vitoria-Gasteiz/Saint-Sébastien (LIVE), Peacock

Monday, July 3 2am Stage 2: Vitoria-Gasteiz/Saint-Sébastien (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:50am Stage 3: Amorebieta-Etxano/Bayonne (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 3: Amorebieta-Etxano/Bayonne (LIVE), Peacock & USA Network

Tuesday, July 4 2am Stage 3: Amorebieta-Etxano/Bayonne (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7am Stage 4: Dax/Nogaro (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 4: Dax/Nogaro (LIVE), Peacock & USA Network

Wednesday, July 5 2am Stage 4: Dax/Nogaro (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 5: Pau/Laruns (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 5: Pau/Laruns (LIVE), Peacock & USA Network

Thursday, July 6 2am Stage 5: Pau/Laruns (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7am Stage 6: Tarbes/Cauterets-Cambasque (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 6: Tarbes/Cauterets-Cambasque (LIVE) Peacock, USA Network

Friday, July 7 2am Stage 6: Tarbes/Cauterets-Cambasque (encore), USA Network 7am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7:10am Stage 7: Mont-De-Marsan/Bordeaux (LIVE), Peacock 8am Stage 7: Mont-De-Marsan/Bordeaux (LIVE) Peacock, USA Network

Saturday, July 8 2am Stage 7: Mont-De-Marsan/Bordeaux (encore), USA Network 6am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:20am Stage 8: Libourne/Limoges (LIVE), Peacock

Sunday, July 9 2am Stage 8: Libourne/Limoges (encore), USA Network 7am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7:05am Stage 9: Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat/Puy de Dôme (LIVE), Peacock

Monday, July 10 2am Stage 9: Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat/Puy de Dôme (encore), USA Network

Tuesday, July 11 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 10: Vulcania/Issoire (LIVE), Peacock

Wednesday, July 12 2am Stage 10: Vulcania/Issoire (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 11: Clermont-Ferrand/Moulins (LIVE), Peacock

Thursday, July 13 2am Stage 11: Clermont-Ferrand/Moulins (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 12: Roanne/Belleville-en-Beaujolais (LIVE), Peacock

Friday, July 14 2am Stage 12: Roanne/Belleville-en-Beaujolais (encore), USA Network 7am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7:30am Stage 13: Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne/Grand Colombier (LIVE), Peacock

Saturday, July 15 2am Stage 13: Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne/Grand Colombier (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 14: Annemasse/Morzine Les Portes du Soleil (LIVE), Peacock

Sunday, July 16 2am Stage 14: Annemasse/Morzine Les Portes du Soleil (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 15: Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil/Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (LIVE), Peacock

Monday, July 17 2am Stage 15: Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil/Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (encore), USA Network

Tuesday, July 18 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:50am Stage 16: Passy/Combloux (LIVE), Peacock

Wednesday, July 19 2am Stage 16: Passy/Combloux (encore), USA Network 6am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:05am Stage 17: Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc/Courchevel (LIVE), Peacock

Thursday, July 20 2am Stage 17: Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc/Courchevel (encore), USA Network 6:30am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 6:55am Stage 18: Moûtiers/Bourg-En-Bresse (LIVE), Peacock

Friday, July 21 8am Stage 18: Moûtiers/Bourg-En-Bresse (encore), USA Network 7am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7:05am Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne/Poligny (LIVE), Peacock

Saturday, July 22 2am Stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne/Poligny (encore), USA Network 7am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 7:30am Stage 20: Belfort/Le Markstein Fellering (LIVE), Peacock

Sunday July 23 2am Stage 20: Belfort/Le Markstein Fellering (encore), USA Network 10am Tour de France Pre-Race Show (LIVE), Peacock 10:10am Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris Champs-Élysées (LIVE), Peacock 5pm Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris Champs-Élysées (encore), NBC

Monday, July 24 2am Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris Champs-Élysées (encore), USA Network

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NBC Sports airs daily, start-to-finish coverage of the 107th Tour de France, running two months later than usual due to a coronavirus pandemic-forced postponement.

On TV, NBC, NBCSN and CNBC combine to broadcast all 21 stages of the three-week Grand Tour, which starts in Nice and finishes on Paris’ Champs-Élysées.

NBC Sports Gold and Peacock Premium live stream daily coverage, too, including nearly 20 bonus hours and commercial-free coverage for Gold “Cycling Pass” subscribers. Gold subscribers can also live stream La Course, a one-day women’s race, on Aug. 29 at 4 a.m. ET.

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Colombian Egan Bernal of Team Ineos defends his title, a year after becoming the first South American winner and the youngest, at 22, in more than 100 years.

Bernal will not be joined by Ineos teammates and past Tour champions Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas , British veterans left off the eight-man roster.

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Instead, the other top contenders include would-be first-time Tour winners Primoz Roglic of Slovenia and Nairo Quintana of Colombia. A number of riders are in contention for the podium with last year’s second- and third-place finishers -- Thomas and Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk -- absent this year.

Slovakian Peter Sagan looks to extend his record of seven Tour de France sprinter titles and earn at least one stage victory for a fifth straight year.

Longtime Tour broadcast host Phil Liggett returns, as does analyst Bob Roll . They will call the race remotely from Sky Sports in Great Britain and NBC Sports in Stamford, Conn., respectively. Paul Burmeister hosts daily pre- and post-race studio coverage from Stamford with past Grand Tour riders Christian Vande Velde and Chris Horner .

Former professional cyclist Adam Blythe serves as a reporter on-site in France.

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