When I was a teenager, my portable music player was a tool that I used to feel completely alone even in very public and social settings.

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We can hope that some of them can make finals and preferably finish in the top eight, and therefore contribute to the placement table which I feel is a more accurate measure of a country's prowess than medals alone.

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