My hidden PAIN!

Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds was so unhappy that she nearly gave up competing

- CAREN CLARK, SEAN MARLAND

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Ellie Simmonds is one of Britain’s most successful swimmers and has won five Paralympic gold medals, including two at her first-ever games in 2008, when she was just 13.

But the pool champion almost walked away from the sport due to pressures in the run-up to the last Paralympics.