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Para-swimmer Suzanna Hext: My hearing dog hero

Cornish Para swimmer Suzanna Hext, who trains at Bath Uni, talks about how her hearing dog Kimmy has changed her life. She's deaf and has to wear cochlear implants.

Cornish Para swimmer Suzanna Hext, who trains at Bath Uni, talks about how her hearing dog Kimmy has changed her life.

Hext is the first athlete who trains at the University of Bath to be selected for the Paris Paralympics.

She is deaf and has to wear cochlear implants and was also paralysed in 2012 after a horse riding accident.

The 大象传媒's Damian Derrick went to speak to her.

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