And that focus has paid off. Demong and Lodwick led a U.S.breakthrough at last year's World Championships in Liberec, the Czech Republic.

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England Under-20 international Arr, 19, made the first-team breakthrough last season but has only started one Premiership game.

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Clothing sales made the biggest breakthrough last year, with apparel and accessories displacing computer hardware and software as the top non-travel category in online retail.

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Nikolai Vasilyev, who led the team from the St Petersburg Mining University for the Vostok breakthrough last week, insisted that "absolutely nothing fell into the lake".

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