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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Last weekend, the country's top ax men, Jack Jordan, won

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Speaker 2: the still Timber Sports World Championship Individual event for the

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Speaker 2: first time. He's just the third key we to win

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Speaker 2: the title, joining Jason Wynyard and David Bolstad. Having finished

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Speaker 2: a close second last year in the traditional long form

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Speaker 2: format across six different wood shopping and saw in disciplines,

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Speaker 2: Jack Jordan came out on top of the twelve strong

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Speaker 2: field in Milan, Italy last weekend. He's back home now

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Speaker 2: and joins us. Jack, Congratulations on your first win in

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Speaker 2: this very prestigious event. How long did it take to

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Speaker 2: sink in that you'd actually won and become a world champion.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a bit of a strange feeling afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Sort of the event went through about three hours, and

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Speaker 3: I sort of spent them three hours staying pretty composed

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Speaker 3: and staying pretty relaxed. So afterwards I sort of felt

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Speaker 3: like I locked and come a cross pretty relaxed all so,

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Speaker 3: I think it's still sinking and sinking in now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the competition involves six disciplines. Can you just take

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Speaker 2: us through each one and tell us what you have

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Speaker 2: to do for each Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So we've got three chopping events and three sawing events.

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Speaker 3: We start off with the underhand chop, that's where we

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Speaker 3: cut the log that's between between our legs. Then we

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Speaker 3: do a stock saw stocks saw ray, so we cut

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Speaker 3: two discs with a six sixty one. Then it goes

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Speaker 3: to the standard lock chop where we cut the log

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Speaker 3: that's standing next to us. After that it goes the

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Speaker 3: points for each event changes after that. The single saw, well,

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Speaker 3: I suppose theyre handsaw sort of six foot or six

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Speaker 3: ft four long crosscut saws. Cut a wheel with that.

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Speaker 3: Then it's the springboard chop where we put two boards

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Speaker 3: into a tree, climb up and then cut the log

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Speaker 3: off at top, cut all the way through from one side,

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Speaker 3: and sort of slash it off backhanded. And then it

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Speaker 3: all comes down to the last event, the hot saw,

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Speaker 3: which is actually triple points. So yeah, well we use

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Speaker 3: a big two stroke chainsaws to cut three wheels in

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Speaker 3: the space of six inches.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So the other six events and we sort of get

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Speaker 3: points for every event and at the end of the

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Speaker 3: day it comes down to who's the most points.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the day, I'm looking at some of the times

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Speaker 2: for these individual disciplines, and we're talking seconds here, Jack,

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Speaker 2: not minutes seconds. There's very little margin for era here,

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Speaker 2: isn't there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure, Yeah, especially in some of those sawing events.

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Speaker 3: The most nervous I was on the night was for

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Speaker 3: that stocks or race where it's just standard points and

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Speaker 3: it's generally pretty easy for me, or it's like for

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Speaker 3: most people it's pretty easy, but when you're trying to

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Speaker 3: go as fast as you can, it's started playing on

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Speaker 3: your mind. But where you know, after you're a few

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Speaker 3: inch inch to one side, it's pretty easy to get

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Speaker 3: a disqualification which would ruin your night.

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Speaker 4: So he was pretty nervous on the night for that one.

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Speaker 2: And then we come to the sixth event, the hot Saw.

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Speaker 2: You were neck and neck pretty much with Australia and

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Speaker 2: branden Meyer right the way through. He said, a new

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Speaker 2: PB of six point four to eight seconds in the

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Speaker 2: hot Saw. You're the last guy to go, you step

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Speaker 2: up and you see your own personal best of six

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Speaker 2: point one six to snatch the title. How was that

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Speaker 2: moment or how was that sort of what were you

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Speaker 2: feeling before it? Throughout the six seconds and then afterwards.

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Speaker 4: It's yeah, a bit strange really.

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Speaker 3: Like leading into the hot saw, I felt really confident,

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Speaker 3: which is quite a good way to be, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, like I said, the most nervous I was

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Speaker 3: throughout the whole night was the stock saw race, and

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Speaker 3: that was the second event, And after I got that

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Speaker 3: I started picking up a few more points and I

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Speaker 3: managed to get on top of Braiden by a point

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Speaker 3: or a couple of points there. Leading into the hot saw,

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Speaker 3: I was pretty confident with the hot saw that if

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Speaker 3: a little bubble. I don't know if you've seen it,

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Speaker 3: he had a little bubble with his first cut, So

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Speaker 3: that sort of allowed me to, yeah, just give me

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were.

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Speaker 2: Second last year, Jack, How much did that second place

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Speaker 2: finish and narrow second place finished last year drive you

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Speaker 2: in the twelve months leading up to this year's event.

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Speaker 3: It's the feeling and coming home being beaten. You know,

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Speaker 3: you put all that hard work and training into it,

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Speaker 3: and you gave it there. If you come up short

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Speaker 3: that travel home so you're flying I don't know what

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Speaker 3: it is, twenty four to twenty five hours homes. It's

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Speaker 3: the feeling of disappointment all the way home. I suppose

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Speaker 3: that's what drove me this year. And yeah, the training,

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Speaker 3: it's I guess that's what pushed me harder.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Was it the hot saw last year? Did you have

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Speaker 2: sal last year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was it was I could have won

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Speaker 3: it with the hot Sal last year, but I come

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Speaker 3: and Sibe would just so I had to go back

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Speaker 3: for a four fourth disc.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, with that happening.

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Speaker 3: Last year, I sort of put a fair bit into

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Speaker 3: And I guess that's why I felt reasonably confident when

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Speaker 4: All I had to do was you know, deep braiden

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Speaker 2: When you've got six disciplines to focus on in terms

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Speaker 2: of preparing for an event like this, how do you

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Speaker 2: divide your time? Do you try and get better on

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Speaker 2: your strong events, or do you try and better your

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Speaker 2: times on the ones that perhaps are your weaker disciplines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny say that my strongest two events of

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Speaker 3: the underhand and standing block, and going into this event,

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Speaker 3: I sort of I put those to the side, And

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I didn't train them, but I certainly

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Speaker 3: didn't train them anywhere near as hard, and quite often

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Speaker 3: I might only cut one of them each night instead

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Speaker 3: of doing multiple. I put everything into the other events,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, funny how it works.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess that's.

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Speaker 4: What feels so good when you win. You know those

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Speaker 3: Do you get nervous, Yeah, for sure, you get nervous,

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Speaker 3: Like I stayed before that stocks LL race. I don't

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Speaker 3: manage to win that event. So yeah, yeah, getting that

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Speaker 3: the rest of the night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, over three thousand fans packed into watch. What was

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty good at blocking that out, so I hardly

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's pretty good atmosphere, but I probably don't

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Speaker 2: So now you're defending champion, Will you go back to

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Speaker 2: defend next year?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've got to qualify for it at the real game,

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Speaker 3: so only one person from each country gets to compete

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Speaker 3: in that event. So yeah, throughout our season, I guess

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So when when is that day?

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Speaker 3: I think it's the second weekend of March. I could

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Speaker 3: be wrong, but yeah, it's in March sometime yeah.

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Speaker 2: All right. So so just so the wood chopping season

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Speaker 2: is that is that? Is it summer a summer sport

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 3: So everyone else is sort of coming to the end

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Speaker 3: so it's a little bit different for us with sort

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Speaker 3: start training. Yeah, training from scratch, which is probably a

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And do you still have a deep motivation for this, Jack?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, obviously you had that had I

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Speaker 2: guess you call it a rock under the beach towel

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Speaker 2: of having finished second last time you've won it. Now,

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Speaker 2: do you still feel as though you'll have motivation to,

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Speaker 2: you know, to continue to strive for improvement and for excellence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Moving forward to next year, I'd want

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Speaker 3: to win it just as much as what it did

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Speaker 3: leading up to this year. So I don't think anything

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Speaker 2: Wonderful Well, congratulations Jack. Amazing news over Labor weekend back

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Speaker 2: here that you had become a world champion. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us this afternoon, mate and telling us all about it.

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Speaker 2: We'll look forward to seeing how the summer plays out

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Thank you very much, really appreciate it now I.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you joining us. Jack. Thanks indeed, Jack Jordan, our

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Speaker 2: top axmen still timber Sports world champion in the individual

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Speaker 2: event last weekend for the first time the six different

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Speaker 2: wood chopping and soaring disciplines and a winner, Jack Jordan,

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Speaker 2: ahead of eleven others in Milan, Italy, last weekend.

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