Dozy
the wheel with the missing spacer
That's a trap I fell into also - it wasn't a wheel with a missing spacer it was the bogie pivot, so all four wheels on that bogie were affected.
But let me draw your attention to the comment in the BEA report (18.2.3.3 again)
A displacement in the horizontal plane is, on the other hand, abnormal. It requires predominance of horizontal loads over vertical loads, which is not the case during the takeoff phase.
This is (presumably) the reason why the pre-burst trajectory was not affected.
Easy to see that if vertical loads on the bearing predominate the 'slack' will be taken up by the axle moving to the top of the female part not to the rear which would produce a yaw.