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"I remember seeing the car. It pulled across the road and I thought ‘it's just going to slow down, let us go past and then continue going across the road.' Then it just didn't stop."

These are the words of 20-year-old Emma Trott, one of the five Team GB women hit by a car while descending between Oudenaarde and Brakel on Friday morning.

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