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Loquacious? Garrulous? Neither adjective is installed next to the words 'Ott' and 'Tanak' on a regular basis. But harbourside on a warm Sardinian Saturday evening, the Estonian was positively chatty.
Tanak talked freely about how things had turned around at Toyota and how things were really starting to fall into place. I even recall a mention of the words 'dream team'.
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