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Team announcement day was full of mixed emotions for Agg 

Making the World Cup squad is what dreams are made of but when your best friends don't make the travelling squad it's hard to celebrate your achievement. 
MIXED EMOTIONS: Lily Agg spent most of Tuesday crying upset for her teammates who did not make the World Cup squad. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

MIXED EMOTIONS: Lily Agg spent most of Tuesday crying upset for her teammates who did not make the World Cup squad. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Waiting rooms – both for her medical and World Cup future – became torture chambers to Lily Agg in recent months.

Firstly, in March, there was the agonising delay in a London accident and emergency department to discover if fractures lay behind her ballooned ankle.

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