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Ellie Simmonds OBE: The unseen costs of being a pioneer in sport (E141)

The High Performance Podcast

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The Importance of Sacrifice

I was trying to think actually what what is it about myself that I do to have got five Paralympic gold medals. sacrifice is a big big thing and sometimes we don't like to admit that we've sacrificed a lot of things, he says. He recalls how when he stumbled into a TV job at 17-18 years old he started not going out in the evening as his friends went out getting drunk spending money having hangovers. "It's really hard sometimes you just go about your daily business and you don't really think about what’s got you down," he adds.

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