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"text": "http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/pete-jenson-adebayors-fresh-start-means-hard-work-short-hair-ndash-and-vital-goals-2263767.html, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/8605605/Andy-Murray-v-Feliciano-Lopez-at-Wimbledon-2011-as-it-happened.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20121109021139/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19083758"
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