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Ota: “Flora and her family lived at the end of the street where I used to go for a walk. I would sit on my walker and rest before turning around and she would come and bring me flowers. Then she started coming over and we just became friends. Now we get together a lot.”

Ota: “She is a sweet little girl, always smiling and just adorable. At first she was quite shy, but what was adorable is she would write notes and bring them to me. She would always smile when she brought me things, and even if they were just weeds, I would put them in water.”

Ota: “A friend like Flora keeps things lively. Young people are so full of life. And connecting with young people makes you recall when you were young and your children were young.”

Carlin - who was already carrying a warning from his quarter-final against Japan's Kaiya Ota on Thursday - suddenly veered up the track, causing a collision with Hoogland.

He had lost his opening race to Kaiya Ota and it had looked like he had also lost the second but the Japanese was relegated after being judged to have impeded the Briton.