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|August 14, 2021
Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds was so unhappy that she nearly gave up competing
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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.
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