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I'm missing that competitive edge. It was the best pool, the high performance centre at the time with an incredible coach, Billy Pye. I would go to school there and then Saturday after training in the morning we would drive back home.

A few years back, I got the amazing opportunity to go and conquer that fear. It was the most incredible experience of my whole entire life, it made me realise how amazing the ocean is. Most of our planet is water and there are so many creatures still being discovered today.

The plastic and everything that is affecting it - we need to do more about it. Apart from that, I love my sport. More from the Woman's Hour Takeover Week Woman's Hour.

Main content. Under immense pressure in front of the home crowd, she won two golds in the m freestyle and m individual medley, a silver in the m freestyle and a bronze medal in the 50m freestyle, as well as breaking two world records. Despite her difficulties with the coaching team, the swimmer defended her m individual medley title, breaking down in tears after collecting her gold medal.

As she prepared for the Tokyo Paralympics, Simmonds returned to her old coach Billy Pye, a former miner, who had been working in China before the Rio Games. When it goes like that, it's tough. She revealed she spent lockdown re-reading Harry Potter books and watching Peaky Blinders and Luther. She has spoken about wanting to be a primary school teacher after she retires as an athlete, and claims Strictly Come Dancing is the only reality TV show she would appear on. With her attention now solely on achieving success in Tokyo, Simmonds was chosen as a flag-bearer for Great Britain at the opening ceremony.

She is bidding for a third successive Paralympic title in m individual medley on Thursday, before she competes in the m breaststroke and m freestyle. But Simmonds faces a tough task in Thursday's race, with year-old fellow Briton Maisie Summers-Newton - who also has achondroplasia - the favourite to win. She went even better with a pair of world records in the m IM, Simmonds continued her m IM dominance with a historic first sub-three minute swim in the SM6 category, winning gold in Bronze in the m freestyle was her eighth and last Paralympic medal, missing the podium in three finals in Tokyo — two of them won by team-mate Maisie Summers-Newton in a passing of the torch.

Again she made an early impact, with five gold medals aged 15 at Eindhoven and a further three in Montreal three years later. Summers-Newton in dream world after second gold. Read more Read more about Summers-Newton in dream world after second gold. Summers-Newton sets Paralympic record as four British swimmers reach finals.

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