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Jean-Philippe Jel is the only synchronized swimmer in Switzerland

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  • Allow me: Jean-Philippe Jel. The 43-year-old is the only synchronized swimmer in Switzerland.

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    Allow me: Jean-Philippe Jel. The 43-year-old is the only synchronized swimmer in Switzerland.

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  • Jel found happiness in synchronized swimming.

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    Jel found happiness in synchronized swimming.

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  • Sport even saved his life, he clarifies. “I was thinking of suicide. Very often, ”says the 43-year-old.

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    Sport even saved his life, he clarifies. “I was thinking of suicide. Very often, ”says the 43-year-old.

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  • And he wants synchronized swimming to become a unisex sport - even in major competitions like the Olympics. Men are not welcome there. “That is a form of discrimination that bothers me,” says Jel.

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    And he wants synchronized swimming to become a unisex sport – even in major competitions like the Olympics. Men are not welcome there. “That is a form of discrimination that bothers me,” says Jel.

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  • Jean-Philipp Jel tells the story of his life in the Blick appointment. He also wrote them down in a book.

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    Jean-Philipp Jel tells the story of his life in the Blick appointment. He also wrote them down in a book.

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Jean-Philippe Jel didn’t want any more. He couldn’t go on. “I was thinking of suicide. Very often. But I was afraid of death, ”he recalls. Today the native French says: “Synchronized swimming saved my life.”

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Because of the story of the 43-year-old Frenchman, who is the only man in Switzerland to practice this female-dominated sport, Blick travels to Lausanne. To be more precise: to the indoor swimming pool Mon-Repos. Translated into German, this means something like “my peace”. That fits like a fist on the eye. Firstly, because we meet Jel at 6.45 a.m., a good one and a half hours before the indoor swimming pool officially opens. Second, and that is much more important because “my calm” fits perfectly with the French-born’s state of mind. “Right. But it wasn’t always like that. It wasn’t until my burnout six years ago that I realized that I had played roles all my life. I always looked to others, but never to myself. That broke me, »says Jel.

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