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- ↑ Mediterranean Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-01-22. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/03/24/avant-le-colonel-beltrame-le-major-soler-lui-aussi-tue-a-bout-portant,1645478.php
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