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- ↑ "Tiro: un podio más repartido" [Shooting: a more even podium]. La Nación (in Spanish). 4 September 1998.
- ↑ "Tiro: Fossati, en el blanco" [Shot: Fossati, on target]. La Capital (in Spanish). 11 December 2007.
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