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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

and it’s a bloody joke since the guy who discovered the SRY gene, andrew sinclair, has said:

quote from andrew sinclair which reads « the SRY gene alone should not determine who can compete in women’s sport. this policy is based on the overly simplistic idea that the presence of the SRY gene alone is equivalent to being male. male sex is much more complex, involving multiple genes other than SRY in developmental pathways as well as hormones. the presence or absence of the SRY gene does not determine the range of human sex characteristics. »

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

my first live tennis experience and i’m not sure it’ll ever be topped! stay classy, wimbledon 🫰🏼

picture of a tennis court with a small purple flower in the foreground

a board showing the order of play for saturday, 11 july

holding my red box of strawberries and cream in front of the big screen on the hill outside of no.1 court

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

inspired by @unusualefforts.bsky.social to come up with a fun donation idea for the men’s world cup, i present to you donation bingo! please share and play however you like! i’ll be donating per square, line, etc to an immigration support organization in canada (tbd, suggestions welcome) ☺️

bingo sheet titled men’s world cup donation bingo.
squares in column 1: japanese fans shown cleaning the stands, your hear “it’s coming home”, underdog advances in the knockout stage, infantino says something stupid, and fans help the community.
squares in column 2: alexi lalas says something stupid, it’s NOT coming home, news about ICE at matches, ronaldo tears, and AI is to blame for something dumb.
squares in column 3: debut country scores a goal, FIFA peace prize is mentioned, trump says something stupid, and colonized country beats colonizer.
squares in column 4: news about fans not getting into matches, animal on pitch steals the show, trump falls asleep at a match, rainbow pride flag/trans pride flag/palestine flag shown on TV, and argument about “football” vs “soccer”.
squares in column 5: opposing fans party together, news about someone not being able to enter the US, small town embraces a country, something important happens during an ad break, and trump or infantino get booed.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

everyone should read this book. i’d bet you’ll look at (and hopefully use) AI very differently if you knew about all of its consequences. care about the environment? AI is not your friend. care about the well-being of workers from the Global South? AI is not your friend.

screenshot of the audiobook version of « empire of AI: dreams and nightmares in sam altman’s openAI » by karen hao.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

disabled comments and quote reposts? is it because you knew folks were gonna barf all over de zerbi’s “i’m a girl dad” defence (AND he issued a classic non-apology too)? sp*rs, de zerbi, and the athletic, you all need to be so much better.

screenshot of a post from the athletic which reads “new tottenham hotspur head coach roberto de zerbi has addressed fan criticism over his historic backing of mason greenwood.” and has a photo of de zerbi with a quote of his reading “i have a daughter and i’m very sensitive to these things, and i always have been. i hope that over time, people will get to know me better and will understand that at that moment i didn’t mean to take a stance.”

the screenshot also shows that there are options to repost but that quote posts have been disabled.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

somebody get me a diaper 😂 ps they showed a highlight package of only men’s hockey at the women’s gold medal game?! oh IOC… you just keep missing easy shots.

photo of the ice and scoreboard with usa v canada from the nosebleeds at the women’s gold medal olympics game.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

what did i do yesterday night? oh just watched canada advance to the gold medal game and witnessed MPP make history, that’s all.

me and my cousin (two women) standing in front of the ice hockey rink in canada jerseys with the canadian women’s ice hockey team warming up in the background.

canadian women’s ice hockey team in a huddle by the net before puck drop.

canadian women’s ice hockey team lined up for handshakes with the swiss team. the scoreboard reads 2-1 for canada.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

SCENES. canada went from crowdfunding to booking their ticket to the rugby world cup final! #letsgogirls #beleaf

landscape shot of the new zealand and canada flags and rugby world cup banner in the background with the players of both squads in the foreground.

karen paquin getting carried by her teammates, celebrating the win and paquin’s 50th cap.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

made a new friend on my wee wander of headingley courtesy of the heritage open days!

A horse with a raincoat on slowly walks towards me from within a fenced area.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

went to my first @nsl.ca @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social and match and it did not disappoint! vibes were immaculate — food trucks, kids games, big crowd. loved it!

selfie of me and my mum from the stands with the pitch (and lovely fir trees) in the background.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

the W in vancouver. EVERYONE WATCHES WOMEN’S SPORTS.

players from the atlanta dream and seattle storm lining up for tip off at the first WNBA game outside of the states (in vancouver, canada).

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

scenes. love this for all my english mates. shoutout to jess carter who left it all out there in this final. she doesn’t need to prove shit but she did it anyway.

big screen set up on an outdoor patio at brudenell social club in leeds with the england lionesses football team lifting the trophy on the tv.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

and that’s a wrap on #WiSEAN2025! massive shoutout to the organizing committee volunteers! 👯‍♀️ hung out with my aussie family 🤓 finally heard talks by noe, joanne, and steph 🛹 learned HEAPS 🙌🏼 made new mates a very successful conference, indeed! @wisean.bsky.social @carnegiesport.bsky.social

dr. annette stride, the head of the organizing committee, addresses the audience at the opening of the conference.

group shot of the organizing committee and volunteer crew on the stairs inside the carnegie school of sport centre.

me with my aussie family, aka the wonderful and brilliant folks at la trobe sports and exercise medicine, including andrea bruder, sallie cowan, kay crossley, mel haberfield, fernanda serighelli, and brooke patterson.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

finally got to hear joanne parsons and steph coen talk about gendered environments in sports and their very cool arts-based research output, more than medals! 🏅 click below to find out more: www.morethanmedals.co.uk #WiSEAN2025 @wisean.bsky.social @carnegiesport.bsky.social

a slide showing the journey of going from a theoretical approach of gendered environments to research outputs and tools for practical change (aka more than medals).

common challenges, mechanisms, and possible outcomes derived from interviews with retired women athletes and how they experienced gender discrimination in sport. the challenges include: stereotypes trivialize injury, physiology is all or nothing, the “ideal” female athlete, in/visible inequities, and uneven power dynamics.

a group of conference attendees placed laminated cards that depict the challenges and mechanisms on the floor, trying to figure out how to remodel the research findings in a non-linear way.

stephanie coen and joanne parsons stand beside a slide with discussion questions on it.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

dr. stacey emmonds (aka my boss lol) gives us a glimpse into Project ACL and some of our aims. plus some insight into youth athletic development and why we need to better prepare girls in football! ⚽️ #WiSEAN2025 @wisean.bsky.social @carnegiesport.bsky.social

stacey emmonds stands in front of a slide of Project ACL featuring leah williamson and text that’s says “project launched to reduce ACL injuries in women’s football”.

slide of project ACL aims which includes 1) minimum standards framework, 2) empowering and educating players, and 3) evidence-informed practice.

slide that shows the evolving demands of women’s football contrasted against the big cost of not preparing players well.

slide titled “nature vs nurture?” it shows a graph of cumulative training minutes for boys and girls. the girls are drastically underloaded compared to the boys until age 18 when they are exposed to high levels of load to play catch up.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

late posts from #WiSEAN2025! here’s the @latrobesem.bsky.social crew presenting on prep to play. 8 years of developing a theory-driven, evidence-based, collaborator-informed injury prevention program for girls and women in australian footy! 💪🏼 @wisean.bsky.social @carnegiesport.bsky.social

brooke patterson, andrea bruder, sallie cowan, mel haberfield, and kay crossley stand in front of their presentation.

slide titled “understand the sport ecosystem”, including a figure on applying the socioegological model to austalian football.

slide titled “co-create as much as you practically can”, which shows the concept mapping and focus group approach taken.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

how lucky are we to have dr. nonhlanhla (or noe) mkumbuzi open #WiSEAN2025 with an amazing keynote on EDI and intersectionality in sport?! understanding how people can be privileged in some aspects and marginalized in others is crucial to advancing inclusive research in sport! @wisean.bsky.social

noe, a Black woman in a yellow top and colourful skirt, standing beside a slide titled “cis-normativity in SEM”

slide titled “what is the problem with this status quo?” 70% of women’s sport and nearly all disability sport and african sport is informed by research on able-bodied men from high income countries in the global north.

slide titled “marginalization and advantage”. the image on the slide has a yellow/orange circle in the middle on a white background, symbolizing intersectionality. in the circle are words that represent positions of privilege (e.g., white, abled, cis-gender, housed) and outside the circle are words that represent positions of marginalization (e.g., person of colour, disabled, transgender/non-binary, unhoused/traveler).

slide titled “intersectionality”. there is some text that defines intersectionality and an image that resembles a flower with different intersections in each of the pedals and a blending of these pedals when they converge in the middle.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

the day is finally here, hello #WiSEAN2025! special shoutout to the whole organizing committee but especially @drannettestride.bsky.social for running the show from behind the scenes.

dr. annette stride addresses the audience in front of a “welcome to the WiSEAN conference 2025” slide.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

when i started this account, i wanted to keep it work-related. then realized quickly that work is only a small part of my identity and trying to be a good human and active citizen is so much more. from my IG:

screenshot of my instagram story which contains the following white text on a black background:

as a kid, sitting in social class, learning about wwii and horrors of the holocaust and atomic bombs, i never thought this stuff would happen in my lifetime. yet, here we are in 2025. a possible world war on the brink and 18 months of a genocide livestream.

maybe it was innocent/ignorance, but damn. we live in the shittiest timeline.

did you ever wonder what you would've done if you lived in the 1930s and 1940s? would you have fought back? resisted in some way? well, you're in a similar situation now, so what are you gonna do?

as always, i'm open to conversations. they don't need to be "productive", but i do think they need to happen. and for better or worse, i've really gotten into voice notes sooooo...

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

still revelling in last weekend’s champions league final. being surrounded by so many women’s football fans was incredible. such a passionate and welcoming community. loved every minute!

giant champions league football on display with a historical archway and adjacent yellow buildings in the background.

opening ceremonies of the champions league final. people are holding a large banner of the barcelona and arsenal logos and others are waving white flags around. photo taken from the angle of the corner flag of the pitch.

photo of pink street in lisbon. it features colourful umbrellas hanging from above and lots of folks wearing arsenal gear.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

okay, canada, we’re up! and the most canadian (aka really nice) thing you can do is vote with empathy! use your vote to support Indigenous peoples, 2SLGBTQ+ folks (especially our trans friends), people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities 🙏🏼

red/pink text on a light/mint green background reads “think of the most vulnerable person you know and vote in their best interests”

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

my cousin knows me very well 😂🥰

holding a severance-themed birthday card that says “another year older? i think that calls for some defiant jazz” with an accompanying photo of mr. milchick in front of a trolley with melon bowls.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

happy 1 year anniversary to me and leeds 🥳

photo from a plane window with a pink sign in the background that says “welcome to leeds bradford airport”.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

reports confirm that mary fowler has torn her ACL. unfortunately, you can see the pivot shift mechanism in replays (which indicates an ACL injury). brutal considering she was having a breakout season and leading the WSL in assists. wishing her a strong recovery 🩵

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

then hosted my mate and injury prevention badass @drbrooke-patterson.bsky.social at the carnegie school of sports @leedsbeckett.bsky.social. knee nerds unite!

brooke patterson (white woman) and me (asian woman) standing in front of the carnegie school of sport sign.

brooke patterson (white woman) and me (asian woman) standing at the bottom of clifford’s tower in york.

brooke patterson (white woman) presenting on her research program.

one of brooke’s slides that outlines the development of the prep to play injury prevention program.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

what a fkn fantastic week it’s been! kicked it off with the edinburgh orthopaedics & sports medicine conference. lovely city and great company!

sheree bekker (white woman) and me (asian woman) taking a selfie with the edinburgh castle in the background.

victoria street, edinburgh from a higher vantage point. a road that curves to the right is flanked by colourful storefronts on the left side. a rainbow is in the background sky.

sheree bekker (white woman), kate jackson (white woman), will jackson (white man), and me (asian woman) taking a selfie at a restaurant table.

me (asian woman) presenting on the rapid professionalisation of women’s football as part of project ACL.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

cannot sleep. still buzzing from seeing justice ✝️ so worth the trek from leeds 🥹

the two guys from justice in glittery gold jackets stand on stage facing each other as they dj under a panel of lights shining down on them.

lots of laser lights shining from the stage into the crowd over a dark purple background.

selfie of me and gaspard from justice. he looks like this 😎✌🏼 and is much cooler than me, especially since i cropped part of my face out of the shot lol

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

followed up with 36 hours in london with our favourite dutchie! thanks for the fun trip, @lktphysio.bsky.social 🫰🏼

a selfie of núria, linda, and me outside of the tower of london.

selfie of núria, linda, and me in a bakery called okja (very good).

selfie of núria, linda, and me in front of a chinese gate and lunar new years celebrations.

we found a book written by our friends, sheree bekker and stephen mumford in housmans bookshop in london. here’s a pic of me holding the book, called “open play”, in excitement!

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

work wife adventures in oslo! good thing she’s one of the smartest people i know and was invited to all these cool norwegian meetings 🤓

selfie of me and linda in front of the oslo city hall.

clare ardern, linda truong, me, and hege grindem standing in front of the norwegian school of sports science.

me and linda holding beers, one of us has a really big one (hint: not me).

me standing in front of my title slide with project ACL at the nimi clinic in oslo.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

and clare finishes off our excellent day on mental readiness to return to sport, psychological readiness, and tips for monitoring psychological status.

dr. clare ardern stands beside her title slide which reads “mental readiness to return to sport after injury”

slide titled “what is psychological readiness?”

it includes four components: 1) physical function, 2) cognitions, 3) emotions, and 4) confidence.

slide titled “tips for clinical practice”

these include: 1) regular monitoring of psychological status (even using simple questions with a Likert scale), 2) applying your working knowledge of the athlete, and 3) knowing when to refer to additional support like sports psychologists.

slide titled “summary”

four points, including 1) using valid and reliable measures, 2) doing routine screening and monitoring, 3) combining information from your measures and what your patient is telling you, and 4) placing the athlete in the centre of decision making.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

remember how important social support can be during rehab, esp long rehabs like post-ACL injury or surgery! @lktphysio.bsky.social walks us through tips and tricks on social support.

dr. linda truong stands beside her title slide which states “thinking big picture: social factors + therapeutic relationships for RTS and long-term athlete health”

slide titled “what is social support?”

it is an exchange of resources between two individuals to be intended to enhance the well-being of the recipient. consider two subcategories of social support: 1) received support and 2) perceived support.

slide recapping one of linda’s publications. it reviews how there are personal relationships, professional relationships, and an evolution of relationships that patients and clinicians experience during rehab. all of these are part of the therapeutic relationship!

slide titled “take home messages”

it lists four messages including 1) treating patients beyond their physical impairments, 2) addressing social components of recovery to boost odds of RTS, 3) considering long-term knee health, and 4) adapting how your role changes during rehab from expert to supporter.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

snuck into the return to play conference hosted by the wonderful nimi sports medicine clinic in oslo. clare ardern has kicked us off with a great overview of return to sport. check out the 2016 consensus statement which still holds true! bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/1...

dr. clare ardern (who is slaying a pink pant suit) stands beside her title slide: “10 years since the bern return to sport consensus”

slide titled “is the athlete ready to return?”

5 testing recommendations from the consensus statement include 1) group tests that mimic sport demands, 2) open tasks when possible, 3) reactive decision making esp when fatigued, 4) monitor workload, and 5) psychological factors.

slide titled “making the return to sport decision”

an overview of the StARRT framework which includes 1) assessing tissue health risk, 2) assessing the activity risk, and 3) assessing your/the patient’s risk tolerance.

slide titled “summary”

clare’s main points include 1) trusting your clinical skills for prognosis, 2) tailoring return to sport tests to sport demands, and 3) staying vigilant esp early after return to sport.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

love to see what my work wife is up to 😉 follow @lktphysio.bsky.social for updates on her post doc research in digital health!

linda standing beside her title slide, “DigiMSK: MSK CARE Clinic: Getting patients the right care at the right time from the right providers.”

slide titled “viewing musculoskeletal health from a health systems lens” — in short, lots of people with MSK injuries go to the emergency department in canada… but there might be a better way of getting care.

slide titled “access to high-quality MSK care” — linda’s post doc project is looking at developing “digiMSK”, a virtual platform for primary care of MSK injuries, and “MSK CARE clinic”, a clinic of advanced practice physiotherapists who are trained to triage MSK injuries.

slide titled “access to high-quality MSK care” — the goal of the MSK comprehensive assessment and response emergency (MSK CARE) clinic is to provide high-quality care to those presenting to the emergency department with low-acuity (i.e., severity) MSK conditions.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

happy holidays from me and my favourites to you and yours ❤️💚🤍

our family christmas tree by the fireplace.

me and my mum standing in front of a giant, lit up wreath at the shipyards.

me and my work wife drinking a delicious cocktail at a speakeasy on our “bougee” christmas 12 pubs.

a light up display reading “JOY” at the shipyards in north vancouver.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

finally got some fish and chips… but i still don’t get the mushy peas 🤪

plate of fish and chips with mushy peas, tartar sauce, and ketchup.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

lovely day for a walk around the north york moors and pub lunch in lastingham. even made some new mates! ☺️🐄

three geese wandering around on a driveway with a black horse in a stable looking on in the background.

me (asian woman) throwing up the peace sign in front of a group of friendly-looking cows.

my two mates walking with the arms around each other up a road. in the foreground is a sign that says ‘lastingham.’

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

if trinity rodman can find some joy in marta lifting the trophy, surely everyone can 😂 (screen grab courtesy of @cjzero.bsky.social)

trinity rodman of the washington spirit with a half-hearted thumbs up as the whistle blows signaling her team’s defeat to the orlando pride in the 2024 NWSL championship match.

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christina le (she/her) @yegphysio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

flashback to 2 weeks ago when i had the opportunity to share about #ProjectACL at #BASEM2024! shoutout to dr. katie marino for the invite. so lovely to have met so many amazing sports med folks who i will happily bother for the foreseeable future 🤓

dr. katie marino, me, and dr. sheree bekker on stage after our session on prevention of women’s injuries in sport.

overview slide describing Project ACL as a collaborative research project between leeds beckett university, FIFPRO, the professional footballers' association, and nike. our aim is to reduce anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and *increase player availability*. the background photo features Sam Kerr in a Chelsea shirt doing a knee slide celebration.

objectives slide for Project ACL. in 'reverse engineering' style, the end goal is to reduce ACL injury risk and increase player availability --> (so first we have to) develop effective ACL injury risk reduction strategies --> identify key ACL injury risk factors --> understand the existing landscape of professional women's football. the background photo features Jill Roord and Chloe Kelly in Manchester City kits celebrating together.

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