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Ellie Simmonds – Come on!!

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If you are new so swimming like me and felt like you need some enthusiasm and incentive! Read On!

If you haven’t seen or heard Ellie Simmonds – who is our Paralympics contender!
Who Won Golds Medals, swimming in the 100 metres and 400 metres at the 2008 Paralmpics in Beijing and becoming World Record Holder for the 200 metres individual medly and becoming The BBCs Young Persons Personality of the Year award 2008 – then I hope you’ll get the incentive I did!

There’s plenty more on Ellie at Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Simmonds 

and http://www.swimming.org/swimfit/ also have an interview with Ellie
http://tv.swimming.org/video/ellie-simmonds-storms-to-second-gold-and-second-world-record-in-the-sm6-200m-individual-medley-on-day-four