Swimming: Simmonds delivers gold No 2 with miracle medley

Kiev : Ukraine | Sep 03, 2012 at 4:30 PM PDT

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Four years ago as Ellie Simmonds was preparing for her first Paralympics final, she turned to her coach, Billy Pye, and burst into tears. The then 13-year-old, overcome with nerves, told him she did not want to race. Last night the nerves were there again, gnawing at her as she waited to step out poolside... FULL ARTICLE AT The independent

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