All I can recall then is loud sobbing and crying.

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From various places, soft or loud sobbing would break out and then subside.

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And Payton remembers watching her mom sobbing as she spoke to her husband and then passed the phone to Payton.

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The Briton tried to restart but then slumped down by the side of the road, sobbing, quitting the race with 6km left.

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