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- ↑ London 2012 Archived 30 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Robert Frank Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
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