Ellie Simmonds looks back: Without swimming, my mum says I would probably have ended up in jail!

The Paralympic swimmer on being a teenage champion, seeking her birth mother, and the joy of retirementBorn in Walsall in 1994, Ellie Simmonds is aretired Paralympic swimmer and TV presenter. She moved to Swansea when she was 11 to train with the GB squad and at 13 was the youngest member of the British team at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, winning two gold medals. She won two further golds at London 2012, breaking two world records, and a fifth gold at Rio 2016. Since retiring in 2021, she has ...