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Express & Star 26 Jan 11
Palalympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds, a double gold winner at 2008 Beijing games, is poised to jet off to Doha in Qatar on Saturday for a two-week, warm weather training camp as she hones her speed and stamina ahead of March trials for the European Championships four months later in Berlin.
And the schoolgirl champion, who first learnt to swim in Walsall Council pools, will be taking her GCSE coursework with her for the trip…
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B'ham Mail 26 Dec 10
Swimmers braved sub-zero temperatures for an annual festive plunge yesterday – as the country enjoyed a white Christmas.
Around 80 brave souls smashed holes in the frozen Blackroot Pool in Sutton Coldfield, before jumping into the ice-cold water…
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Advertiser 2 Dec 10
Aldridge swimming star Tully Kearney is set to follow in the footsteps of double Paralympic gold medallist Eleanor Simmonds. She has been approached by the British Swimming Talent Squad that helped Ellie on the path to glory.
Kearney will be considered for the World Class programme following her three-medal haul – including two golden displays – at the DSE Nationwide Short Course Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. And with her eyes set firmly on competing at the Paralympics, the future looks bright for the 13-year-old, who swims for Boldmere Swimming Club in Sutton Coldfield…
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Sam Green Advertiser 25 Nov 10
London 2012 could well turn into the ‘Eleanor Simmonds Show’ – according to a Great Britain Paralympian legend.
David Roberts has the chance to make Paralympic history at the London 2012 – but admits Aldridge-born teen sensation Ellie Simmonds could steal his thunder in the capital.
Fellow swimmer Roberts is currently the joint most decorated British Paralympian in history – his 11 gold medals on a par with the legendary Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson…
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BBC Sport 19 Aug 10
Walsall’s Ellie Simmonds won her third title of the IPC World Swimming Championships as she surged to gold in the 200m individual medley.
Simmonds was sixth at 100m mark but dominated in the second half of the race to set a new world record time…
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BBC Sport 17 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds was one of three teenagers to win gold as Great Britain enjoyed a superb day three at the IPC World Swimming Championships.
Simmonds won her second gold of the meet in the 50m freestyle while 19-year-olds Thomas Young and Harriet Lee were also victorious…
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Advertiser 12 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds has vowed to ensure her meteoric rise continues at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven this weekend.
The 15-year-old Boldmere Swimming Club life member captured the nation’s hearts in Beijing two years ago when she claimed double Paralympic gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle events…
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Advertiser 5 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds hasn’t put a foot wrong in her career so far and has vowed to ensure her meteoric rise continues at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven.
The 15-year-old captured the nation’s hearts in Beijing two years ago when she claimed double Paralympic gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle events.
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Advertiser 5 Aug 10
Walsall Swimming Club star Edward Martin claimed a superb haul of eight medals at the National Age Group Championships in Sheffield last weekend.
The 11-year-old, pictured above, won three gold medals, two silver and three bronze thanks to some stunning performances at Ponds Forge…
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BrownhillsBob 11 Jul 10
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ll be aware of the media hysteria over the windows at Darlaston swimming pool, which our masters in the press would have us believe were blacked out in an attempt to placate muslim swimmers.
Like most things in the printed press, there seems to have been an agenda at work here. The story started a week ago in the Express & Star, which went to town with a shrill story which was subsequently lifted (nice to see role reversal for a change…) by the middlebrow tabloids. The good old E&S deserves a particular raspberry in all this, as it never misses a chance to half-report a story if it can possibly foster community devision. Never let the facts get in the way, chaps, even if it does make you look like scumbags…