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Le TOUR’19 Stage 13: Awesome Alaphilippe – Stage and More Yellow! Pt.3

Deceuninck - Quick-Step's Julian Alaphilippe impressively won the individual time trial in Pau. After 27.2 kilometres he stoped the clock at 35 minutes dead, beating 2018 Tour champion, Geraint Thomas (Ineos) by 14 seconds. Thomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal) was third after being in the 'hot seat' for a long time. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) crashed out and left the race in an ambulance. Stage winner and overall leader, Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck - Quick-Step): "It’s incredible. I’m really happy. Without being pretentious, I knew I could do a good performance on such a course, I told my cousin Franck this morning that I’d do something good but I didn’t think I could win the stage, especially with such a big gap against Geraint Thomas. The first part suited me but I surprised myself in the second part of the race. I pushed my limits. With the help of the public, I gave everything till the line. I heard that even in my team car they all cried."  

Wout van Aert had surgery on a flesh wound on his right thigh, which he sustained during his severe fall in the time trail. Muscles were also affected. Due to the fall, he had to abandon. Mathieu Heijboer told VTM News that the operation on Van Aerts right leg lasted an hour. Everything is fixed and the rider is already awake. "It was a big wound, with his hip torn open. He may not have sustained any other injuries. Although it was a major intervention, the doctors are positive that they were able to do everything they wanted to do. Now we have to wait and see how long the recovery will take."

Tour de France Stage 13 Result: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 35:00 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 0:14 3. Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal at 0:36 4. Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 5. Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo at 0:45

Tour de France Overall After Stage 13: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step in 53:01:09 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 1:26 3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma at 2:12 4. Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 2:44 5. Egan Bernal (Col) Ineos at 2:52

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The Criterium du Dauphiné (CDD) is a great cycling event that is usually held in the month of June in the beautiful region of France, which is the territory in the South -east of the country, that includes the departments of Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes.

Criterium du Dauphiné 2018 Stage 6 La Rosière Avergne Rhone Alpes Savoie

This cycling race is a great opportunity for the professional cyclists and teams to get an idea about where they stand with their preparation compared to their rivals, at only three weeks away from the more important ” Tour de France” (TdF). Most of the CDD stages are ridden on the same roads of the TdF, therefore is also a great opportunity to inspect the terrain on which they’ll be competing again in three weeks time. Been mainly an alpine region, the Dauphiné presents stunning landscapes and beathtaking sceneries with beautiful mountains always in the background. The race itself is therefore usually more suitable for a climber type of cyclist, however usually a couple of flatter stages and a Time Trial day can help an overall rider with a strong team to aim for victory.

Battle between Gregor Muehlberger and Julian Alaphilippe

Michal Kwiatkowski leading the chase on Col de la Baune stage 6

This 2019 edition has been won by Jakob Fuglsang of Team Astana ahead of Tejay Van Garderen of Team EF Education First, and Emanuel Buchmann of Team Bora – Hansgrohe. Adam Yates of Team Mitchelton-Scott was in the lead of the race up until stage 7, then unfortunately had to retire from the competition due to a stomach problem.

Adam Yates of Team Mitchelton – Scott in Yellow Jersey @FabrizioMalisan

Julian Alaphilippe of Team Deceuninck-Quickstep came to this CDD without expectation he said, but been the amazing talent he is, he’s won a stage and finished in Champéry with the climber’s Polka Dot jersey on his shoulders. Wout Van Aert has won the Green Jersey for the points classification, and BJORG LAMBRECHT is the winner of the White Jersey, for the young rider’s classification. Amongst all the great riders in this year’s Criterium du Dauphiné, there was Chris Froome of Team Ineos that unfortunately had to pull out pretty soon due to an accident that unfortunately seem to keep him out from competing also in the TdF. Let’s hope he’ll be able to get back as soon as possible and so, we wish hil all the best for a speedy recovery.

Nairo Quintana of  Team Movistar, Dan Martin of Team UAE Emirates and Romain Bardet of Team Ag2r were also in the group but probably mainly just in preparation for the TdF. Anyway, this CDD has clearly given an indication of the conditions of riders and teams leading to the TdF 2019, of course this is only a week-long event, whether the “Grande Boucle” is a much heavier 3 WEEKS of challenging long stages where anything can happen.

Dan Martin of UAE Team Emirates spinning his legs towards the Tour de France 2019

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Tour de France News: Geraint Thomas loses ground to Julian Alaphilippe

Geraint Thomas was 14 seconds behind Julian Alaphilipe on time trial 13 in phase

Alarm bells sound as Geraint Thomas loses ground to Julian Alaphilippe on time trial 13 in phase 13

Team Ineos' team is 86 seconds behind the Frenchman in the general classification

Team Ineos will be concerned about Alaphilippe & # 39; s show of power on stage

| Published: 22:18 BST, July 19, 2019 | The sight of Julian Alaphilippe rising from his saddle and riding up the steep slope

For almost 27 km of this test course, only one of the two courses five or six seconds had separated Thomas and the leader from the race, but that power injection from little Alaphilippe drove him to a 14-second margin and an extension of his advantage over the Welshman

Dit was not in the script. Alaphilippe has pedigree as a spirited, super light climber and has achieved some great results as a one-day racer. Last year he even won a test in Paris-Nice.

Julian Alaphilippe won stage 13 of the Tour de France with 14 seconds against Geraint Thomas of the Tour de France and 14 seconds from Geraint Thomas "

Julian Alaphilippe won stage 13 of the Tour de France with 14 seconds against Geraint Thomas

PHASE 13 RESULTS

1. Julian Alaphilippe ( Fra / Deceuninck Quick-Step) 35 minutes

2. Geraint Thomas (GB / Team Ineos) + 14sec

3. Thomas van Gendt (Bel / Lotto Soudal) + 36sec

4. Rigoberto Uran (Col / EF Education First) + 36secs

5. Richie Porte (Aus / Trek-Segafredo) + 45secs

But the 27- was considered incapable for this, and indeed, Thomas was expected to take a good while, perhaps enough to make the defending champion first to turn yellow since Paris

. As it was, Alaphilippe marked the 100th anniversary of the leotard jaune with the kind of performance that triggered serious excitement in France, but also provoked a mixture of astonishment, disbelief and discomfort.

After all, here is a rider who only finished behind Great Britain & # 39; s Adam Yates last month at an almost identical distance to the Criterium Du Dauphine, which was the best part of a minute on the winner and a of the favorites for this stage, Wout van Aert.

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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra / Deceuninck Quick-Step) 53hrs 1min 9secs

2. Geraint Thomas (GB / Team Ineos) + 1min 26secs

3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned / Jumbo-Visma) + 2mins 12secs

4. Enric Mas ( Spa / Deceuninck Quick-Step) + 2mins 44secs

5. Egan Bernal (Col / Team Ineos) + 2mins 52secs

Van Aert never reached the finish after it cutting the barrier and maintaining a nasty, race-ending leg injury, but Alaphilippe was significant

"I never thought I'd win a test with the yellow jersey and start the mountains with the yellow jersey," Alaphilippe said. & # 39; But I am not here to answer suspicions. I know the work I have done to be here.

& # 39; I am most surprised about where I am now. If it causes suspicion, I know it's the first one, it always makes people talk. If I were the last, I wouldn't have questions like this. I cycle the way I want, everything else makes me laugh. "

In France they laugh excitedly at the prospect of a first Tour winner since Bernard Hinault in 1985, while on that Team Ineos bus

A battle for the top of the mighty Tourmalet is emerging Saturday and while Thomas claimed two mountain wins on his way to winning last year's Tour, Alaphilippe has proven to be able to maintain his 86-second lead after taking the Polka Dot jersey with two mountain wins of his own last year.

Perhaps the most alarming for Thomas and Team Ineos But on Friday it was just how fresh Alaphilippe looked when he got off his bike and started what had felt like an endless series of post-stage interviews

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Alaphilippe won two stages of this year's Tour and could be a first French winner since 1985

Team Ineos has controlled the pack so far and there is certainly a heavy presence of those black and burgundy jerseys as the race climbs to the Pyrenees on Saturday, but the emergence of Alacilippe & # 39; s Deceuninck-

Thomas, asked about Alaphilippe, said: & I am very happy to be able to work with the team, Yes, did not really expect that. He is clearly doing incredibly well, so he is definitely the favorite and the one he needs to look at in the nick of time. "

When asked if he considered Alaphilippe a threat, I answered: & # 39; Of course, the way he drives.

& # 39; If he can sustain that, then he will win. But there is still a long way to go. There are still many difficult stages to come. "

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50cm:Geraint Thomas upbeat despite damaging time loss at Tirreno TTT

Geraint Thomas remained upbeat following the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday, despite admitting that Team Sky's loss of 47 seconds to team time trial winners Mitchelton-Scott and their leader Adam Yates puts them "quite far behind".

"It's not ideal, certainly," Thomas told reporters at the finish, "but you never know with bike racing. Mitchelton-Scott did a real good, strong ride, and unfortunately we are quite far behind, but there are still six day of racing to go."

Second-placed team Jumbo-Visma – who finished just seven seconds off the Australian WorldTour team's winning time – is home to another race favourite in Primoz Roglic, who won a stage and the overall classification at the recent UAE Tour and will prove to be a real danger man over the coming week, according to Thomas.

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"We saw how well he was going there in the UAE, and he's going for the Giro d'Italia, so obviously he's in good shape now and he's got a strong team around him. For sure he's the favourite, but, like I said, we'll see what we can do," added Thomas, who's sharing leadership of the British team with Dutchman Wout Poels this week in Italy.

"The race is up and down the whole time. It's proper racing, of course, so I think there'll be a lot of attacks – not just from us, but from everybody, including Deceuninck-QuickStep, who've got Julian Alaphilippe here. I think a lot of people are going to be aggressive, and there's a lot of racing to come," he said.

Tirreno-Adriatico continues on Thursday with the first road stage of this year's race, with the riders facing 189km on stage 2 between Camaiore and Pomerance.

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Tour of Britain 2018: Cameron Meyer wins stage as Alessandro Tonelli takes race lead

Tour of Britain 2018: Cameron Meyer wins stage as Alessandro Tonelli takes race lead

Tour of Britain 2018: Cameron Meyer wins stage as Alessandro Tonelli takes race lead

Cameron Meyer held off the chasers to win his first Tour of Britain stage

Australia’s Cameron Meyer won stage two of the Tour of Britain in Barnstaple by surging clear of Alessandro Tonelli, who moved into the overall race lead.

Meyer and Tonelli were the last two riders left from the breakaway and held off a strong chasing pack in the final kilometre to contest the finish.

Mitchelton-Scott’s Meyer, 30, kicked up the left to catch out the Italian and win by one second.

Yet second place was enough for Tonelli to take the leader’s green jersey.

Both he and Meyer are on the same time but the Bardiani-CSF rider leads due to better combined stage results, having finished three places in front of Meyer on stage one.

BMC Racing’s Patrick Bevin won the sprint from the chasing bunch to finish third and also claim third overall, with Hugh Carthy the highest-placed Briton in 10th.

Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas rolled in more than three minutes down on Meyer, with six-time Grand Tour winner Chris Froome finishing nearly 12 minutes back.

Both opted against competing in the Vuelta a Espana to race in Britain and rode stage two in support of Team Sky team-mate Wout Poels, who finished seventh to move into fourth overall.

“I was not very confident because I’ve been caught in the last kilometre on a Tour of Britain stage before,” said nine-time track world champion Meyer.

“I was hoping there would be no deja vu and I’m very happy to hold on and take the victory.

“We worked really well all day in all sorts of conditions and it was a great bike race with a thrilling finish so to throw my hands in the air at the end was pretty cool.”

Meyer and Tonelli helped establish a five-man breakaway with Matthew Teggart (Team Wiggins), Erick Rowsell (Madison Genesis) and Scott Davies (Dimension Data) early on in the 174.9km stage from Cranbrook.

Britain’s Davies attacked out of the group on the steep slopes of Challacombe Hill with 22.7km to go, taking the summit alone to claim the king of the mountains jersey, before he was reeled in and dropped by Meyer and Tonelli.

Carthy and France’s Julian Alaphilippe, who won two stages of this year’s Tour de France, set off from the peloton in pursuit and were joined by several strong riders including Primoz Roglic, Poels and Bob Jungels.

The chasers quickly cut the advantage of the leading pair but could not pull back the last 10 seconds in the final kilometre as the breakaway ultimately succeeded.

Previous race leader Andre Greipel, who won stage one, was dropped on Challacombe Hill to finish more than six minutes down.

Tuesday’s stage three is another hilly course, with a 128km route starting and finishing in Bristol.

Stage two result

Cameron Meyer (Aus/Mitchelton-Scott) 4hrs 14mins 46secs

Alessandro Tonelli (Ita/Bardiani-CSF) +1sec

Patrick Bevin (NZ/BMC Racing) +2secs

Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Quick-Step Floors) Same time

Jasha Sutterlin (Ger/Movistar)

Primoz Roglic (Slo/LottoNL-Jumbo)

Wout Poels (Ned/Team Sky)

Chris Hamilton (Aus/Team Sunweb)

Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step Floors)

Hugh Carthy (GB/EF Education First-Drapac)

General classification after stage two

Alessandro Tonelli (Ita/Bardiani-CSF) 8hrs 15mins 30secs

Cameron Meyer (Aus/Mitchelton-Scott) Same time

Patrick Bevin (NZ/BMC Racing) +8secs

Wout Poels (Ned/Team Sky) +12secs

Jasha Sutterlin (Ger/Movistar) Same time

Chris Hamilton (Aus/Team Sunweb)

Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Quick-Step Floors)

Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step Floors)

Primoz Roglic (Slo/LottoNL-Jumbo)

Hugh Carthy (GB/EF Education First-Drapac) +19secs

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Le TOUR’19 Stage 13: Awesome Alaphilippe – Stage and More Yellow! Pt.1

Deceuninck - Quick-Step's Julian Alaphilippe impressively won the individual time trial in Pau. After 27.2 kilometres he stoped the clock at 35 minutes dead, beating 2018 Tour champion, Geraint Thomas (Ineos) by 14 seconds. Thomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal) was third after being in the 'hot seat' for a long time. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) crashed out and left the race in an ambulance.  Stage winner and overall leader, Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck - Quick-Step): "It’s incredible. I’m really happy. Without being pretentious, I knew I could do a good performance on such a course, I told my cousin Franck this morning that I’d do something good but I didn’t think I could win the stage, especially with such a big gap against Geraint Thomas. The first part suited me but I surprised myself in the second part of the race. I pushed my limits. With the help of the public, I gave everything till the line. I heard that even in my team car they all cried."  

Wout van Aert had surgery on a flesh wound on his right thigh, which he sustained during his severe fall in the time trail. Muscles were also affected. Due to the fall, he had to abandon. Mathieu Heijboer told VTM News that the operation on Van Aerts right leg lasted an hour. Everything is fixed and the rider is already awake. "It was a big wound, with his hip torn open. He may not have sustained any other injuries. Although it was a major intervention, the doctors are positive that they were able to do everything they wanted to do. Now we have to wait and see how long the recovery will take."

Tour de France Stage 13 Result: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 35:00 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 0:14 3. Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal at 0:36 4. Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 5. Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo at 0:45

Tour de France Overall After Stage 13: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step in 53:01:09 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 1:26 3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma at 2:12 4. Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 2:44 5. Egan Bernal (Col) Ineos at 2:52

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Le TOUR’19 Stage 13: Awesome Alaphilippe – Stage and More Yellow! Pt.2

Deceuninck - Quick-Step's Julian Alaphilippe impressively won the individual time trial in Pau. After 27.2 kilometres he stoped the clock at 35 minutes dead, beating 2018 Tour champion, Geraint Thomas (Ineos) by 14 seconds. Thomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal) was third after being in the 'hot seat' for a long time. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) crashed out and left the race in an ambulance. Stage winner and overall leader, Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck - Quick-Step): "It’s incredible. I’m really happy. Without being pretentious, I knew I could do a good performance on such a course, I told my cousin Franck this morning that I’d do something good but I didn’t think I could win the stage, especially with such a big gap against Geraint Thomas. The first part suited me but I surprised myself in the second part of the race. I pushed my limits. With the help of the public, I gave everything till the line. I heard that even in my team car they all cried."  

Wout van Aert had surgery on a flesh wound on his right thigh, which he sustained during his severe fall in the time trail. Muscles were also affected. Due to the fall, he had to abandon. Mathieu Heijboer told VTM News that the operation on Van Aerts right leg lasted an hour. Everything is fixed and the rider is already awake. "It was a big wound, with his hip torn open. He may not have sustained any other injuries. Although it was a major intervention, the doctors are positive that they were able to do everything they wanted to do. Now we have to wait and see how long the recovery will take."

Tour de France Stage 13 Result: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 35:00 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 0:14 3. Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal at 0:36 4. Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 5. Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo at 0:45

Tour de France Overall After Stage 13: 1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick-Step in 53:01:09 2. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos at 1:26 3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma at 2:12 4. Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck - Quick-Step at 2:44 5. Egan Bernal (Col) Ineos at 2:52

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50cm:Volta ao Algarve: Pogacar confident ahead of Malhão showdown

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) saw his lead at the Volta ao Algarve reduced slightly when he was caught on the wrong side of a split in the peloton on stage 4, but the Slovenian did not appear to be concerned by a concession that does little to alter his task on the Alto do Malhão on Sunday.

It helped, of course, that Enric Mas (Deceuninck-QuickStep), the man most likely to deny him overall victory, was also wrongfooted in the white-knuckle finale and rolled home alongside Pogačar, 7 seconds behind stage winner Dylan Groenewegen.

The reshuffle of the general classification leaves Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) second overall, 29 seconds down on Pogačar. Wout Poels (Team Sky) moves up to third overall, at 30 seconds, while Mas remains 31 seconds down, albeit now in fourth place.

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“We achieved our goal so we can be happy that we defended the yellow jersey,” Pogačar said before mounting the podium on Saturday. “The stage was pretty calm, I had everything under control. We were just careful in the last 20 kilometres because it was really fast, so I’m really happy to keep the jersey.”

Pogačar’s advantage continues to look like a winning one, not least because of the way he climbed en route to taking victory atop the Alto da Fóia on stage 2, though the Malhão, just three kilometres long and wickedly steep at the bottom, offers a different, more explosive kind of test.

The neo-professional maintains that he is more at home on longer ascents, though given his body of work so far this week, it seems difficult to envisage him conceding half a minute on its slopes.

All in on the Malhão

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50cm:Aru, Poels and Demare headline Volta ao Algarve

Twelve WorldTour teams will take on the five stages of the Volta ao Algarve from February 20 to 24. The race covers 778,6km with more than 12.000metres of climbing.

Bora-hansgrohe, CCC, Deceuninck-Quickstep, Lotto-Soudal, Dimension Data, Jumbo-Visma, Katusha-Alpecin, Sky, Sunweb, Trek-Segafredo and UAE Team Emirates will represent the top teams at the 2.HC race. Professional Continental teams Wanty-Gobert, Cofidis, Caja Rural – Seguros and W52-FC Porto as well as eight Portuguese Continental teams round out the field of 168.

Team Sky are sending a high-powered team, with David de la Cruz, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Wout Poels, Luke Rowe and Ian Stannard. Fabio Aru leads UAE Team Emirates, Bora-hansgrohe features Jempy Drucker, while Soren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb) makes his season debut. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data), currently leading the overall GC at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, will look to put in another top performance.

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The race opens with the longest stage, 199km from Portimao to Lagos, with an expected sprint finish. Stage 2, 187km from Almodovar to Monchique, finishes atop a category 1 mountain. The third stage gives the time triallists a chance on a 20.3km course starting and finishing in Lagos. Stage 4 is another one for the sprinters, after 198km from Albufeira to Tavira.

The race's winner will be crowned on the final stage, where the peloton covers 173km from Faro to Malhao, with a finish atop the category 2 climb and an average gradient of 9.9 per cent on the 2.5km closing climb.

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50cm:Frustration for Sanchez after slipping off Tour Down Under podium

Luis León Sánchez (Astana Pro Team) returned to the 2019 Tour Down Under having previously won the race back in 2005. The Spaniard finished in the top-10 three times - plus an 11th place - over the six stages this week but, despite the consistency, was unable to match the effort up Willunga Hill and fell off the podium on the final day. 

Sánchez crossed the line in a respectable fifth place, but, having started the day third overall, ended his week in fourth place, behind winner Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott), Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) and Wout Poels (Team Sky).

Despite the strong results and respectable overall finish, Sanchez was frustrated with the superior form of Australian riders and named Impey as another rider who has benefitted from missing the European winter.

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"Before today we had a good feeling but it's always the same, the Australian riders and also Impey are here before Christmas for training and have better form than me," Sánchez said to reporters after the race finish.

"It's a good result, of course, but a podium would've been better. It was close, it's a good result for me and, more importantly, my teammates did really good work for me. I think it's nice looking forward to Europe that it's a good result.

"I did some good work at home before here and it's nicer weather here than home. But it's always the same, I have good feelings but other racers are stronger than me. I think it's no coincidence that the others are stronger than me."

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