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Wout van Aert Bids Adieu to the Tour de France Ahead of Stage 18

The Jumbo-Visma rider is heading home to be with his wife as she gives birth to their second child.

Van Aert has been a crucial player in getting race leader Jonas Vingegaard where he is—comfortably ahead of Tadej Pogačar. We’ve seen him leading the breakaways and doing so much work for his team.

The Belgian rider has won 9 Tour de France stages in his career, but none this year—his first tour without a win. “I often had the legs to win a stage,” he said. “But it did not happen…I will always remember this Tour as the one where I called home every day.”

A nice reminder that there are a few things even more important than the Tour de France, and one of those things is family.

Without van Aert, Jumbo-Visma and Vingegaard will be leaning hard on Sepp Kuss. While it will make things a little more stressful, the team is no doubt grateful for all that van Aert was able to do thus far.

Rumors flew early in the tour that van Aert wouldn’t make it through the entire race. Now we know why. Both van Aert and Vingegaard were asked numerous times in interviews if Wout would be leaving. And numerous times they denied it. Clearly it was a day to day decision.

Van Aert said in the Jumbo-Visma video , "On the one hand, it's a strange feeling, but it's not a dilemma. It's an easy decision. I always thought that I would go home when my wife indicated she needed me. That time has come. So in that respect, it's not a dilemma.

Micah Ling is a freelance writer who lives in the mountains of Colorado. She splits her free time between mountain biking and trail running.

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Wout van Aert claims thrilling solo stage win to extend Tour de France lead

• Belgian retains yellow jersey after winning stage four
• Van Aert had finished second in the first three stages

Wout van Aert, wearing the leader’s yellow jersey, took a spectacular win in stage four of the Tour de France in Calais, after attacking from the peloton alone in the closing stages of the 171.5km stage from Dunkirk.

In a collective show of strength from his Jumbo-Visma team, the Belgian broke clear on the final climb, the Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez, after his teammates, Tiesj Benoot and Jonas Vingegaard, set a fierce pace on the steepest sections of the headland.

Van Aert, 27, second in all three of the Tour’s Grand Départ stages last weekend, feared another disappointment in a bunch sprint. “I didn’t want to take the risk,” he said. “We were in a perfect position. The goal was to go full to the top and see what happened.”

What happened was that Van Aert and his team blew the race apart, albeit momentarily. Only Adam Yates of Ineos Grenadiers and Vingegaard were able to follow, with even the defending champion, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates), and Van Aert’s teammate, Primoz Roglic, among those left chasing. But on the rolling approach to Calais Van Aert dropped all his pursuers and triumphantly took his first stage win in this year’s race.

“They did the same thing at Paris-Nice,” Yates said of Van Aert’s team. “We had a suspicion they might do it, sprinting full gas from the bottom to the top. I ran out of legs just over the top.”

After the long transfer from Denmark, it seemed that Magnus Cort Neilson (EF Education EasyPost) had travelled best of all, after spending another day racing in the breakaway. The Dane traversed the 400km threshold of breakaway riding in this Tour after only four stages, one of which was a time trial. Swept up with 40km remaining, the Dane increased his lead in the King of the Mountains, his final points haul coming on the fourth category Côte du Ventus.

Now all eyes turn towards Wednesday’s fifth stage, from Lille Métropole to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, which includes 11 cobbled sectors, of infamous and loathed pavé , made famous by the spring Classic, Paris-Roubaix.

Tom Southam, sports director to Education EF EasyPost, played down the significance of the cobbled stage. “We’ve had them before,” he said. “It’s not totally novel. But it takes a lot more work from the equipment side. In the spring Classics we have spare wheels everywhere, all across northern France.

“We have to get through as best as possible. It’s like having a Classics race in the middle of the Tour. There’s going to be someone who’s unfortunate and who loses time.”

Matt White, sports director at the BikeExchange-Jayco team, said that his staff were treating the stage like a “mini Paris-Roubaix”. “The big difference is in the actual Paris-Roubaix about 85% of the riders want to be there, whereas in the Tour stage about 20% of the riders want to be there. This stage will have 55 kilos little fellas boxing on with 90 kilos bigger guys. It multiplies the chances of crashes. Nobody wants a rider to lose the Tour due to bad luck.”

Much will depend on the weather. In 2014’s stage, held in a downpour, Vincenzo Nibali of Italy used his off-road skills to stay clear on a stage that proved the foundation of his overall win and forced the defending champion, Chris Froome, to abandon. On the other hand, in the dry and dusty conditions of 2018 Froome’s teammate Geraint Thomas exited the pav é in second place overall and went on to win in Paris . The Welshman will be hoping for a similar outcome this year.

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WOUT VAN AERT’S EXTRAORDINARY 2022 TOUR DE FRANCE

Belgian Wout van Aert has been on fire in the first week of the Tour de France winning two stages including Saturday’s sprint finale in Lausanne, finishing second three times and buildng up a seemingly unassailable lead in the sprint points race. The 27-year-old world ranked No1 individual one-day racer, is unlikely to ever win the overall competition at the Tour de France due to his powerful 6ft 3in frame, but he did claim top spot on the Tour de France rankings this week too.

“It’s a mythical thing, but I believe I deserve it,” said the Jumbo-Visma rider after pulling on his first-place overall yellow jersey in the opening stages in Denmark. He then proceeded to defy logic on stage four with an individual breakaway that gave him a stage win at Calais. He delivered another breakaway though his homeland, parading the yellow jersey, before giving it up to concentrate on the green.

“I wanted to give my fans something to remember,” he said.

Alongside Slovenian two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar, Van Aert has been the standout rider thusfar of the 2022 Tour. He joined road cycling late after taking three consecutive world championships titles at cyclo-cross from 2016 to 2018.

“When I was young I didn’t much think about road racing, bunch sprints were boring for me,” he admitted after Saturday’s impressive win ahead of Michael Matthews and Pogacar.

“I only started to like sprints when I got into the mix myself.”

He joined Jumbo-Visma in 2018 and has been a key man ever since winning the Milan San Remo monument and Olympic and world championship silver medals.

‘Gave me wings’

Disaster struck when he broke his thigh at the 2019 Tour’s time-trial, but Van Aert has extraordinary willpower.

“There’s always another day,” he insisted after coming second three times on the first three stages on this Tour in Denmark.

“When you come second there is a reason.

“It’s never easy to win a bike race, and it’s never easy to win a Tour de France stage and never will be,” he said on Saturday.

“I have done four Tour de France starts now, and have always managed to win at least a stage.

“He was on fire on the 2021 Tour too, winning three iconic stages.First he triumphed in the summit finish on Mont Ventoux, then took a second win on the time-trial through the Bordeaux vineyards and rounded it off in style with victory on the Champs Elysees, where he denied British great Mark Cavendish a record 35th stage win.

In 2022, he has taken things a step further, claiming the yellow jersey thanks to his three runners-up spots in Denmark before rampaging to his first stage win of the 2022 Tour at Calais. Launching a late attack on a climb from Dunkirk to Calais he powered over the final 8km at breathtaking speed, winning with the yellow jersey on his back.

“The jersey gave me wings,” he explained.

His stunning display even earned the praise of Pogacar. “He just blew us all away,” said the Slovenian.

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Wout van Aert took a solo victory in Calais after he failed to win the time trial and bunch sprints in Denmark. First on the line after three second places, the Belgian extended his lead in the overall classification on the eve of the cobbled stage to Arenberg. Jasper Philipsen won the bunch sprint eight seconds behind the Maillot Jaune and Christophe Laporte rounded out the podium.

MAGNUS CORT AWAY AGAIN, WITH ANTHONY PEREZ

176 riders took the start of stage 2 in Dunkirk at 13.29. Anthony Perez (Cofidis) was the first attacker, from the gun, quickly followed by Magnus Cort (EF Education-Easyport). They reached an advantage of 6’39’’ after 25km of racing before Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl got organised at the helm of the peloton. The time difference was down to 4’45’’ atop Mont Cassel where Cort took one more KOM point and thus secured his polka dot jersey for at least two more days. Quick Step put the hammer down in the descent and split the peloton in three pieces. The time gap went below 4’ before going on the up again as the bunch slowed down after regrouping. Perez was first on the line of the intermediate sprint at Lumbres (km 63).

PEREZ ON HIS OWN IN THE LAST HOUR OF RACING Perez and Cort got a maximum advantage of 7’15’’ at km 80. Lotto-Soudal, Alpecin-Deceuninck and later Trek-Segrafredo upped the tempo at the head of the peloton. As Cort took his ninth consecutive KOM victory at côte de Nielles-lès-Bléquin, he mathematically secured the polka dot jersey until stage 7 to La Super Planche des belles filles. He continued collecting KOM points at côte de Harlettes (km 102.7) where the time gap was reduced to 2’25’’ and côte de Ventus (km 123.6) where the peloton was timed only 1’15’’ adrift. Right after the second last climb of the day, Perez attacked to go solo with 45km to go.

VAN AERT ON THE OFFENSIVE IN THE LAST CLIMB Perez was reeled in before the top of Cap Blanc-Nez with 11km as Van Aert passed him after his Jumbo-Visma team sped up in the climb. The Maillot Jaune forged on by himself after Adam Yates and Jonas Vingegaard failed to remain in his slipstream. He kept going on a time trial mode till the finish line in Calais to grab one more spectacular stage victory, his seventh at the Tour de France but the first one with the yellow jersey on his shoulder. Another Belgian came second as Jasper Philipsen celebrated as well, obviously not knowing that his compatriot had remained alone ahead.

Wout van Aert: "I didn't want to risk losing"

“I didn’t want to take the risk of losing anymore. It was quite obvious that we were trying something with the team. We were in a perfect position with Nathan [van Hooydonck] and Steven [Kruijswijk]. Nathan opened up. We heard through the radio that some damage was made, so I went full gas to see what would happen. I was a bit in doubt, if I had to wait for Jonas [Vingegaard] and [Adam] Yates but I went full gas so Jonas didn’t have to ride. In the last10km I went all out. This jersey gives wings. It was definitely a tough climb but this stage was very...

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Tour de France 2022 - Wout van Aert crashes, then nearly hits car in eventful day for yellow jersey

Updated 06/07/2022 at 19:01 GMT

Wout van Aert fell, recovered, then nearly crashed into a team car as he tried to get back to the peloton on Stage 5 of the Tour de France as disaster nearly struck the yellow jersey ahead of the cobbles. The Jumbo-Visma rider came down with some 96km to go owing to some road furniture. And then when attempting to get back, a moment of hesitation saw him nearly hit a team car.

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A winner of uci cyclocross world cup series title in 2021, belgian rider wout van aert also is also a regular stage winner on the tour de france..

• 1 He hails from a hotbed of cycling
• 2 Van Aert was a protégée
• 3 His versatility is unparalleled
• 4 Mastering his mind helped turn him into a world beater
• 5 But his family is his greatest strength
• 6 He's up to nine stage wins in the Tour de France
• 7 Winning the green points classification jersey at the Tour de France in …
• 8 Wearing the yellow jersey gave him wings

• 9 He’s taken some hard spills
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Van Aert was a protégée

Wout van Aert is a master of cyclo-cross's technical and hilly circuits

His versatility is unparalleled

Putting down the power at the head of the peloton

Mastering his mind helped turn him into a world beater

But his family is his greatest strength.

A truly iconic celebration as van Aert celebrates his solo Stage 4 win

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He's up to nine stage wins in the Tour de France

• Points classification (2022)
• 9 individual stages (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• 1 TTT stage (2019)
• Combativity award (2022)

When van Aert ups his pace he goes all in

Winning the green points classification jersey at the Tour de France in 2022 was a major achievement

Wearing the yellow jersey gave him wings
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He put in some stunning solo rides at the 2022 Tour de France

He’s taken some hard spills

Wout van Aert kept the yellow jersey on for four stages of the 2022 Tour

There are no limits to his ability

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Wout van Aert leaves Tour de France to be with pregnant wife: 'It's an easy decision'

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Wout van Aert is abandoning the Tour de France after learning that his pregnant wife's labor is "imminent." He's seen here earlier this week, ascending Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in the French Alps. Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Wout van Aert is abandoning the Tour de France after learning that his pregnant wife's labor is "imminent." He's seen here earlier this week, ascending Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in the French Alps.

The Tour de France will end in Paris in just a few days — but it will do so without one of its most exciting riders, as Wout van Aert quits cycling's biggest race to be with his wife, Sarah, who is expecting their second child.

"On the one hand it's a strange feeling but it's not a dilemma," Van Aert said in a video announcing his withdrawal. "It's an easy decision. I always thought that I would go home when my wife indicated that she needed me."

In this year's Tour, Van Aert has been a crucial ally of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard on Jumbo-Visma's eight-man team, using his unique strength and versatility to put pressure on Vingegaard's top rival, two-time winner Tadej Pogacar.

But Thursday's stage 18 began without Van Aert. He leaves this year's edition of cycling's landmark event without adding to his career nine stage wins. Van Aert said that while he had hoped to make it to Paris, he's been discussing a potential early exit with his team.

"I always thought that I would go home when my wife indicated that she needed me," the Belgian said. With the family's doctor assessing that labor is imminent, he said, "My place is now at home."

Van Aert, 28, said his teammates "are 100% behind me," and he's confident that they'll shepherd Vingegaard, who now has a comfortable lead of more than 7 minutes over Pogacar, to the podium in Paris.

This year's Tour de France brought a thrilling duel between Vingegaard and Pogacar, with the two most recent champions fighting for every second as the road race headed into its final week. But Vingegaard finally cemented his advantage in the Alps, in Tuesday's time trial and Wednesday's epic mountain stage.

For his part, Van Aert said, "I look back on this Tour in a positive way, but I will always remember this Tour as the one where I called home every day."

Winning time – Wout van Aert's Monuments mission the priority despite Giro debut

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Wout van Aert can do just about everything, but that doesn’t mean he can have it all. On the eve of the 2024 season, the Belgian has been faced with tough choices.

Even in an era bedecked with the versatile gifts of men like Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) , nobody has quite the same level of dexterity as Van Aert, who glides with such striking ease between registers, on and off road. The familiar, graceful pedal stroke is a constant across the calendar, in cyclocross and in bunch sprints, amid the cobbles and hills of the Classics and on mountain passes of the Tour.

And yet, as he approaches his 30th birthday, it’s still hard to shake off the sense that Van Aert’s hefty palmarès somehow does not quite add up to the sum of his variegated talents. He has already amassed more victories of real quality than most riders manage in a lifetime – among them nine Tour de France stages, Milan-San Remo , Gent-Wevelgem, Strade Bianche, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and two wins at E3 Harelbeke, not to mention three Cyclocross World Championships titles – but at times his career still feels defined by the races he hasn’t yet won.

That is partly because of the unrelenting and often unrealistic expectation of the cycling fan, but largely due to the achievements of Pogačar and his eternal rival Van der Poel over the past three years. The Monument may be a relatively modern construct, but in the 21st century, it has become the gold standard for measuring the achievements of one-day riders, and Van Aert’s account is light.

Pogačar has now won five Monuments, while Van der Poel reached a running tally of four thanks to his victories at Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix last Spring. For good measure, the Dutchman added the Road World Championships title at Van Aert’s expense in Glasgow , and he finished the year as the inaugural winner of the Vélo d’Or for one-day riders.

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Van Aert, by contrast, still has ‘only’ one Monument to his name. As the years have passed since his 2020 Milan-San Remo victory, that statistic has begun to look more like an accusation than an achievement.

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The Belgian was, by a distance, the peloton’s outstanding rider when pro cycling reopened for business after the first COVID-19 lockdown, and his victory against Julian Alaphilippe at that August edition of Milan-San Remo looked set to be the first of many over the Monument distance.

In the intervening period, however, Van Aert has endured repeated frustration in the biggest one-day races, notching up six podium finishes in his ten Monument appearances since, as well as silver medals at the Olympics and Worlds. His versatility was underlined by third place at last year’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but his real Classics ambitions are focused squarely on the first two Sundays in April, and the two races best tailored to his gifts.

At the Tour of Flanders, Van Aert was pipped by Van der Poel in 2020, denied a start by COVID-19 in 2022 and beaten into fourth by his two great rivals last April. At this year’s Paris-Roubaix, meanwhile, Van Aert suffered a cruel late puncture that denied him a joust to the line with Van der Poel, having placed second behind a surprising Dylan van Baarle twelve months previously.

Van Aert’s decision to ride the Giro d’Italia instead of the Tour de France in 2024 was the main focus when the Belgian met the press at the Visma-Lease A Bike presentation on Thursday, but speculation about his true ambitions at the corsa rosa distracts from the obvious: his primary goals in 2024 are the same as they ever were. One-day events are what drive Van Aert, including the Olympics and the World Championships, but, above all, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.

“My main dream remains the same, to win one of the Flemish Classics,” Van Aert had already told Eurosport last month during a visit to Colombia last month for Rigoberto Urán’s sportive. “It’s something I will be trying to achieve until I do it.”

The changes

Van Aert was always likely to make some tweaks to his approach in 2024, but the change became more radical by necessity when his long-term coach Marc Lamberts opted to follow Primoz Roglic to Bora-Hansgrohe at the end of last season. Van Aert has since begun working with Mathieu Heijboer, and he noted that the Dutchman has placed “a different emphasis” on his preparation.

The first striking difference is a notably pared-down cyclocross calendar that will see Van Aert forgo the World Championships and switch his focus fully to the road much sooner than in years past. “We found that we were putting too much energy into cyclocross without realising it,” he explained on Thursday. “It was a difficult decision, but it gives me some peace of mind.”

Since his first Classics campaign with Crelan in 2018, Van Aert had typically begun his road campaign at Opening Weekend, but in 2023, he delayed his seasonal debut until Tirreno-Adriatico. The experiment backfired. E3 Harelbeke victory notwithstanding, it was hard to shake the sense that Van Aert was still chasing form right into April. “I was never at my best last year,” he conceded.

It’s hardly a surprise, then, that 2024 will see Van Aert make his earliest ever start to a road season, pinning on a number at the Clásica Jaén on February 12 before riding the Volta ao Algarve and both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. Intriguingly, Van Aert will then spend almost a month away from racing – skipping Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo – before returning to action at E3 Harelbeke. He is also slated to ride Dwars door Vlaanderen as a warm-up for the Tour of Flanders.

In 2023, Van Aert sat out Jumbo-Visma’s domination of Opening Weekend and was then expected to hit the ground running in March. This time out, the February slate of racing offers a gentler start, and, perhaps as importantly, will see him race alongside the rest of Jumbo-Lease A Bike’s cobbled Classics unit from the outset rather than parachute into the line-up at Harelbeke.

Everything, it seems, is built around the first two Sundays in April, where Van Aert will look to tip the balance of his never-ending contest with Van der Poel back in his favour after a couple of years where the Dutchman has enjoyed a clear edge, both in the field and on the road. Pogacar’s absence only heightens the prospect of a WVA-VDP joust at the Ronde.

Van der Poel’s success of the past two years has owed much to picking and choosing his targets sagely, and, it must be said, by racing more cannily than he had in his youth. Less can sometimes be more, and Van Aert looks to have absorbed the lesson by simplifying his Spring campaign.

That said, Van Aert’s Giro debut is an intriguing prospect, particularly on a route with two long time trials. Given his performances in the mountains of the Tour, it’s not outlandish for Van Aert to target a high overall finish in Italy, but he appears – rightly – reluctant to sacrifice his competitiveness on the cobbles in order to do so. The corsa rosa , it seems, will only begin to occupy Van Aert’s thoughts in earnest in April. Striking cameos on all terrains are surely a more likely prospect than a GC challenge, particularly now that Cian Uijtdebroeks will be on hand after completing his controversial transfer from Bora-Hansgrohe.

Riding the Giro in favour of the Tour also allows Van Aert to tailor his own build-up to the Olympic Games, though it’s unclear if how beneficial that will be. While it offers Van Aert space to work on his time trialling, history suggests it might prove a hindrance in the road race. Since the Olympics opened to professionals in 1996, after all, every men’s road race gold medallist has ridden the Tour beforehand. (In 2000, Jan Ullrich also raced the Vuelta before winning in Sydney).

On the other hand, Van Aert’s likely Vuelta a España debut in August seems destined to serve as a rather public training camp for the Zürich World Championships. He will surely recall how the pandemic-delayed Tour of 2020 saw him at his sharpest for that year’s Imola Worlds, even if he had to settle for frustrating silver medals in each event.

In other words, while Van Aert’s new adventures in Grand Tours draw the eye, the prizes he covets are the same as ever – the biggest one-day races. His 2024 programme is simply a new road towards the same destination.

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Barry Ryan is Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation , published by Gill Books.

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Wout van Aert out of Tour de France after time trial crash

The Belgian collided with a barrier during the Pau time trial

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Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is out of the Tour de France 2019 after crashing in the stage 13 time trial.

The Belgian national time trial champion collided with a barrier as he took a right-hand bend in the final two kilometres of the 27km time trial. Van Aert was travelling at 47.7kmh when the crash took place.

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Video footage showed Van Aert catching the barrier with his right-hand side as he took the apex of the corner. It is unclear the extent of the injuries Wout van Aert sustained in the incident, but it was immediately clear he would be unable to continue.

Race officials and his team immediately tended to the 24-year-old with a medical team quickly arriving to treat him on the side of the road. He was then taken away in an ambulance to hospital.

Dutch team Jumbo-Visma said Van Aert was conscious and had sustained a wound to his upper right leg where he made contact with the barrier. Media reports suggest that he didn't sustain a fracture but that the would to his leg is extremely deep.

Van Aert looked to be heading towards setting the best time in the time trial before the crash. He has already had a very successful debut Tour, helping Jumbo-Visma to stage two victory in the team time trial and sprinted to a win on stage 10 in Albi.

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A number of riders crashed on the tricky course in Pau on stage 13. Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) was able to finish despite crashing midway through his effort, while German Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) saw his efforts to place highly fall away after crashing close to the finish of the course.

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