Swimmer Laura Stephens eyes Olympic success despite 'hating' the sport as a child.
Laura Stephens was part of the gold medal winning British 4x100m medley relay team at the 2020 European Aquatics ChampionshipsWhen Laura Stephens first met Essex-based swimming coach Michelle Young at the tender age of nine, she hated being in the water.
"She was absolutely at one with the water. You could just see she could move in the water so effortlessly." "I started to win a few medals and then that's where competitiveness overtook the side where I don't like water," Stephens said. "She had quite a few challenges - she was asthmatic, she's coeliac - and nothing was going to stand in her way," Young said.Stephens made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, finishing sixth in her semi-final and missing out on a spot in the final by a second."In Tokyo, I didn't perform exactly how I wanted to," Stephens said.
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