Paris: Grassroots to Glory
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Laura Stephens: Why I used to hate swimming
3 minutes
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Laura Stephens from Wix heads into the Paris Olympic Games as the reigning 400m butterfly world champion.
But things could have been very different if her big sister hadn’t persuaded her to not give up swimming when she was a young girl.
Laura tells Akylah Rodriguez why she used to cry when she was taken to the pool.
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