The 2022 HearingLife
Tour Challenge was held from October 18 to 23 at the
Coca-Cola Centre in
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), a ...
,
Alberta
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. It was the second
Grand Slam
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* Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves
Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to:
Games and sports
* Grand slam, winning category te ...
event of the
2022–23 curling season
The 2022–23 curling season began in June 2022 and ended in May 2023.
''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.''
World Curling Federation events
Source:
Championshi ...
.
During the draw to the button before the semifinal games,
Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF ...
sustained a knee injury that forced him out of the event. His remaining three team members,
Oskar Eriksson
Oskar Ingemar Eriksson (born 29 May 1991) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays third for the Niklas Edin rink. He is the first curler in history to win four Olympic medals – gold, silver, and two bronze – and the first to ...
,
Rasmus Wranå
Rasmus Bele Åke Wranå (born 15 November 1994) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays second for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. With his teammates Edin, Oskar Eriksson, and Christoffer Sundgren, Wranå becam ...
, and
Christoffer Sundgren
Kjell Tommy Christoffer Sundgren (born 31 July 1989) is a Swedish curler. He currently plays lead for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. The World Curling Federation's historical records rank Sundgren as one of the most successfu ...
went on to win the semifinal game against
Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 W ...
and then beat
Matt Dunstone in the championship game.
Qualification
The Tour Challenge consists of two tiers of 16 teams. For Tier 1, the top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the
World Curling Federation
The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation (ICF), when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made. ...
's world team rankings as of September 12, 2022 qualified. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete. For Tier 2, the next 11 teams on the WCF rankings as of September 15, 2022 were invited. The final 5 teams in Tier 2 are filled by regional invitations extended by the Grand Slam of Curling.
Men
Tier 1
Top world team ranking men's teams:
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Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 W ...
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Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF ...
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Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler. He is an Olympic silver medallist, having skipped Great Britain to a second place finish in the men's team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Career
Mouat had a very su ...
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Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Michael Bottcher (born December 19, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Bottcher is a three-time provincial men's champion, and was the skip of the 2021 Canadian men's championship team, having led Alberta to victory ...
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Joël Retornaz
Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...
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Matt Dunstone
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Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers (born December 30, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Carruthers was the 2011 world champion—winning gold as a second on Jeff Stoughton's team—as well as a six-time provincial champion, the 2003 junior prov ...
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Ross Whyte
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Yannick Schwaller
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Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Originally from Yellowknife
...
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Colton Flasch
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Marco Hösli
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Michael Brunner
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Glenn Howard
Glenn William Howard (born July 17, 1962) is a Canadian curler who is one of the most decorated curlers of all time. He has won four world championships, four Briers and 17 Ontario provincial championships, including a record eight straigh ...
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Steffen Walstad
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John Epping
John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto.
Career
Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top junior curler, h ...
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Tanner Horgan
Tanner Horgan (born February 12, 1998 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. He currently skips his own team.
Career Juniors
As a bantam aged curler, Horgan won three Northern Ontario titles (2010, 2013 and 2015). In 2012, he won a provin ...
Tier 2
World Team Rankings teams:
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Mike McEwen
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Korey Dropkin
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Wouter Gösgens
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Karsten Sturmay
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John Shuster
John Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Wi ...
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Magnus Ramsfjell
Magnus Ramsfjell (born 17 July 1997 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian curler from Trondheim.
Career Juniors
Ramsfjell was the skip of the Norwegian junior men's team in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2016 to 2019. At the 20 ...
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Kody Hartung
Kody Seti Kimbulu (born 23 January 1978), known professionally as Kody or Kody Kim, is a Belgian television host, comedian, and radio personality.
Kody was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium to a Congolese family. He attended the Catholic University of ...
# Yves Stocker
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Lukas Høstmælingen
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Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski (born March 24, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Airdrie, Alberta. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary.
Career
Sluchinski made his first national appearance at the 2008 Canadian Junior Curling Championships skipping ...
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Kim Chang-min
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Félix Asselin
Félix Asselin (born November 17, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Montreal. He currently skips his own team out of Montreal, Quebec.
Career
Asselin skipped Quebec at four Canadian Junior Curling Championships during his junior career in 2012, ...
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Ryan Wiebe
Regional teams:
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Kyler Kleibrink
Kyler Kleibrink (born October 1, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. He currently skips his own team.
Career
Kleibrink joined the Jeremy Harty rink at third with second Joel Berger and lead Gregg Hamilton for the 2015–16 se ...
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Jacques Gauthier
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Ryan Jacques
Ryan Jacques (born June 19, 2000) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently the skip of the Alberta Golden Bears men's curling team in university curling and on the World Curling Tour. Jacques was slated to represent Canada a ...
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Johnson Tao
Johnson is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin meaning "Son of John". It is the second most common in the United States and 154th most common in the world. As a common family name in Scotland, Johnson is occasionally a variation of ''Johnston'', a ...
# Scott Webb
Women
Tier 1
Top world team ranking women's teams:
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Anna Hasselborg
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Kerri Einarson
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Satsuki Fujisawa
is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at t ...
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Kaitlyn Lawes
Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to ...
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Tracy Fleury
Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curl ...
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Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 ...
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Kim Eun-jung
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Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated ...
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Gim Eun-ji
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Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip.
Career
...
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Isabella Wranå
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of F ...
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Daniela Jentsch
Daniela Jentsch (born 15 January 1982), previously known as Daniela Driendl, is a German curler from Füssen. She is the skip of the German National Women's Curling Team.
Career
Jentsch played in her first international competition in 1997 at ...
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Tabitha Peterson
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Casey Scheidegger
Casey Scheidegger (born January 31, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Lethbridge, Alberta. She is a former provincial junior champion and is currently a skip on the World Curling Tour.
Career Juniors
Scheidegger won the 2009 Alberta Junior Curli ...
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Hollie Duncan
Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour.
Career Juniors
As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club rin ...
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Raphaela Keiser
Tier 2
World Team Rankings teams:
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Krista McCarville
Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the 2003 Winter Universiade silver medallist, a four-time Ontario p ...
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Kerry Galusha
Kerry Galusha (born Kerry Koe on November 3, 1977) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her team out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife.
Career Juniors
Galusha's first national experience was at the 1992 Canadian Junior Curlin ...
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Kelsey Rocque
Kelsey Elizabeth Rocque (born March 25, 1994) is a Canadian curler residing in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. She is a two-time World Junior champion skip.
Career
In 2013, Rocque played for her first University Championship, at the 2013 CIS/CCA C ...
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Selena Sturmay
Selena Sturmay (born June 21, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of the Saville Community Sports Centre.
Career
Sturmay made her first appearance at the Canadian Junior Curling Championshi ...
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Clancy Grandy
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Christina Black
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Penny Barker
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Madeleine Dupont
Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Denise Dupont (Mad ...
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Andrea Kelly
# Kristy Watling
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Nancy Martin
Nancy Faye Martin (born February 17, 1973 in Rosetown, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Career
Martin has been playing on the World Curling Tour since the 2004-05 season. In the 2014-15 season, she joined the Ji ...
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Beth Farmer
Regional teams:
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Jessie Hunkin
Jessica "Jessie" Hunkin (born August 24, 1988, née Kaufman) is a Canadian curler from Parkland County, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Spruce Grove.
Career
Until joining the Robyn Silvernagle rink in 2018, Hunkin skipped o ...
# Serena Gray-Withers
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Kayla Skrlik
Kayla Skrlik (born September 10, 1997) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of the Garrison Curling Club.
Career
Skrlik broke onto the junior scene when she skipped Team Alberta at the 2016 U18 I ...
# Elysa Crough
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Kristie Moore
Kristie Moore (born April 22, 1979) is a Canadian curler from Sexsmith, Alberta. She was the alternate player on the Canadian women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was five months pregnant at the time, making her only the third Olympic a ...
Men
Tier 1
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Mountain Time
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time ( UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time ( UTC−06:00). The cloc ...
(
UTC−06:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 3:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Thursday, October 20, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Thursday, October 20, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, October 21, 8:30 am''
=Draw 15
=
''Friday, October 21, 4:00 pm''
Tiebreaker
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 12:00 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, October 23, 10:00 am''
Tier 2
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Mountain Time
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time ( UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time ( UTC−06:00). The cloc ...
(
UTC−06:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 3:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Thursday, October 20, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Thursday, October 20, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, October 21, 8:30 am''
=Draw 15
=
''Friday, October 21, 4:00 pm''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 12:00 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, October 23, 10:00 am''
Women
Tier 1
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Mountain Time
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time ( UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time ( UTC−06:00). The cloc ...
(
UTC−06:00).
=Draw 2
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 11:30 am''
=Draw 4
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 6:30 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 8:30 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, October 20, 8:30 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Thursday, October 20, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 14
=
''Friday, October 21, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 16
=
''Friday, October 21, 8:00 pm''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 4:00 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, October 23, 2:00 pm''
Tier 2
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Mountain Time
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time ( UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time ( UTC−06:00). The cloc ...
(
UTC−06:00).
=Draw 2
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 11:30 am''
=Draw 4
=
''Tuesday, October 18, 6:30 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 8:30 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, October 20, 8:30 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Thursday, October 20, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 14
=
''Friday, October 21, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 16
=
''Friday, October 21, 8:00 pm''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 4:00 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, October 22, 8:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, October 23, 2:00 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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