Eleanor 'Ellie' Simmonds once again raised the bar and the roof yesterday (September 8) in the Aquatics centre.
The Aldridge born swimmer, who swims in the SB6 class, took to the pool again for the final leg of her 4 main events.
Having taken a bronze in the 50m Freestyle, the pressure was on Ellie, as it's widely thought that she's better over longer events.
She broke the Paralympic Record in the heats, but, as has happened many times before in these games, that's was immediately re-broken; this time by Ellie's American rival, and the favourite, Victoria Arlen.
Arlen won and again broke the World Record in doing so. That gave Simmonds little chance of ever winning but she took silver, making sure that for the fourth time she's standing on that podium. Maybe not atop it, but her medals won't be just clinking together when hanging around her neck but creating a full blown orchestral sound.
The Olympics and Paralympics have together provided some fantastic, honest interviews which have bore all the conventions of a drama.
So many fans are now all too familiar with wooden football interviews where it's plainly obvious that a press officer is standing feet away censoring their words with frowns and hand gestures.
So it's great to hear interviews where emotions are laid on the line - and non more so than the emotional powerhouse Will Bayley, who was inconsolable after his final defeat to Wollmert of Germany.
Bayley said afterwards: “ I've trained six hours a day for the last six years for this moment and I’m sorry I let everyone down who’s come to support me today. But I’ll never give up. I’ll win the individual gold one day."
To have an athlete apologize for grabbing a silver medal is something which really tweaks at the nation's heart-strings and Bayley, along with some other heart-felt, disconsolate interviews from despairing athletes, have made the games.
Then we can go back to Ellie, who seems to have been 'chuffed' with most of the goings-on in these games.
Her interviews have exuded emotion. We've experienced the smiles, tears, laughs and all had the chance to live through her emotions and really get in touch wit the events.
And, as much as Swansea want to claim Ellie with their gold post box - they don't say 'chuffed' in Swansea. That's the hallmark of a Walsall girl.
And then, if there was any need to re-affirm that, she followed that with: "I treated myself to a full-blown McDonald's [after the race] and now I'm going to eat these pancakes."
That's Walsall all over.
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