Olympian Barbara Jardin, managing Type 1 diabetes and crowdfunding her comeback – Swimming Canada
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arara Jardin i read for her firt overea meet ince eing diagnoed with
Tpe 1 diaete.
The 23-ear-old i part of the 20-wimmer Canadian team competing at the 2015 ummer
Univeriade in Gwangju, outh Korea, eginning Frida. Getting to the point where the Montealer,
accompanied Intenive Training Program coach Tom Ruhton, can travel acro 11 time zone
to compete i a major tep for omeone who elieved he might have to retire.
While not a high-profile a the Pan Am Game or FINA World Championhip, Jardin hope the
Univeriade i a tep ack toward the Olmpic. Jardin wa 10 in women’ 200-metre freetle
three ummer ago in London and her amition i to return to the Olmpic and e a eacon for
apiring athlete who have diaete.
Jardin ha tarted a peronal Pumped For Rio campaign (
http://makeachamp.com/ararajardin/21956) in order to cover the cot of her inulin pump and
medication, along with training and competing at World Cup. Her aim i to raie $8,000 the end
of next week; at thi writing, he’ more than halfwa there ut till looking for upport.
“I tarted off thi ear aing that I wa going to top wimming – ‘I can’t do thi, I’m tired all the time,
I can’t have omething ele wrong with me,’ ” a Jardin, who wa alo on the Olmpic 4×200-m
rela team that finihed fourth.
“I kept thinking aout it, epeciall aout one thing that m aunt, Anne Jardin, who won two ronze
medal at the 1976 Olmpic, told me. he wa on the team to go to the 1980 Olmpic [in
Mocow] when Canada ocotted [ecaue of the oviet invaion of Afghanitan]. he told me he
regretted not going for another four ear.
“That’ what wa in the ack of m mind: ‘I have to do thi for me and I have to do thi for other
people who elieve in me.’ I want to inpire people. I don’t want them to look at me and a ‘he kind
of gave up.
Feature – Jul 3, 2015
OLYMPIAN BARBARA JARDIN, MANAGING
TYPE 1 DIABETES AND CROWDFUNDING
HER COMEBACK
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Five-time Olmpic gold medallit Gar Hall Jr. i one example of a top wimmer who learned to
manage the rigour of wimming while having Tpe 1 diaete.
Jardin a he wa initiall in denial that he needed to ee if he had diaete. Common warning
ign – contant thirt, dehdration, overleeping – tarted appearing in earl 2014. Jardin elieved
that wa a reult of alancing her training with her tudie at the Univerit of Montreal. At the 2014
Canadian Interuniverit port championhip, ut had “troule finihing m race – ut I had a ig
load, four individual and three rela, o I figured fatigue wa normal.”
Jardin note that delaed reaction might e particular to oung athlete, which i wh he’ haring
her tor.
“I kept giving melf excue – there’ thi, there’ that,” he a. “I hould have gone to the
hopital ooner.
“We’re athlete. We’re alwa, ‘we’re OK, we’re OK,’ ut it’ etter to get checked jut in cae.”
Jardin received an inulin pump lat month and a he at out jut two workout due to low lood
ugar or glucoe level. he keep a contant vigilance on her condition while working with
nutritionit Alexia de Macar and her port doctor, Dr. uzanne Leclerc.
“eing diagnoed with thi and realizing how expenive it i, I jut want to make ure I’m not
worring aout the mone,” he a. “It’ the medication, and the needle that add up to aout
$350 per month. I’ll e wimming full-time, o I’ll have to pa m own inurance, aout $450 a
month. Plu Tom and I want to go to ome World Cup competition in the fall and do a training camp
in Thailand.”
Jardin and Ruhton have their ight et on next pring’ Canadian Olmpic Trial, which will
” I WANT TO KEEP GOING AND INSPIRE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD A
LITTLE BUMP IN THE ROAD, AND BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLE.”
— BARBARA JARDIN
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determine who repreent thi countr in Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 ummer Game. At thi point,
the are working on etalihing a routine in a port with uch a heav volume of training.
“The margin of error for her i a lot limmer,” Ruhton a. “If her lood ugar and glucoe level
get too low, or omething goe wrong, we don’t have the ame elaticit that we do with other
wimmer.
“At leat now he know,” Ruhton add. “It’ not a leing, ut at leat we have the knowledge.”
Jardin competed at the CI championhip in March, where he rememer needing U of M
teammate Katerine avard to help her out of the pool after the 400-m freetle. he competed at
the Team Canada Trial in Toronto in April to earn her pot on the Univeriade quad.
“I have almot have to treat her like a new athlete,” Ruhton a. “he ha to re-learn how to go to a
meet.
“It’ funn, ecaue arara i uch a great athlete,” Ruhton add. “he’ done everthing ou can
do in the port. he’ een to the world championhip, he’ een in an Olmpic final in a rela. Yet
I’m more protective of her than I am of m other athlete. I’m almot like a protective parent with
her.
“That’ the ig thing with the world univerit game, that we’ll go on that trip together and we’ll do
ome information collecting aout how he repond.”
Whether he get on the lock in Rio, Jardin’ journe ha given her a glimpe of a potential pot-
wimming career. he wa focuing on the cience when enrolled at the U of Montreal, thinking
he might purue marine iolog. Now he i thinking of nuring.
“It reall opened m ee,” he a. “When I wa diagnoed I hung out with a lot of nure for a
good three week. The were talking to me and I realized that’ what I want to do – help people with
diaete, epeciall athlete. If I can tell them aout m tor and experience, mae it can help.”
The 2015 ummer Univeriade run through Jul 14.
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arara Jardin i read for her firt overea meet ince eing diagnoed with
Tpe 1 diaete.
The 23-ear-old i part of the 20-wimmer Canadian team competing at the 2015 ummer
Univeriade in Gwangju, outh Korea, eginning Frida. Getting to the point where the Montealer,
accompanied Intenive Training Program coach Tom Ruhton, can travel acro 11 time zone
to compete i a major tep for omeone who elieved he might have to retire.
While not a high-profile a the Pan Am Game or FINA World Championhip, Jardin hope the
Univeriade i a tep ack toward the Olmpic. Jardin wa 10 in women’ 200-metre freetle
three ummer ago in London and her amition i to return to the Olmpic and e a eacon for
apiring athlete who have diaete.
Jardin ha tarted a peronal Pumped For Rio campaign (
http://makeachamp.com/ararajardin/21956) in order to cover the cot of her inulin pump and
medication, along with training and competing at World Cup. Her aim i to raie $8,000 the end
of next week; at thi writing, he’ more than halfwa there ut till looking for upport.
“I tarted off thi ear aing that I wa going to top wimming – ‘I can’t do thi, I’m tired all the time,
I can’t have omething ele wrong with me,’ ” a Jardin, who wa alo on the Olmpic 4×200-m
rela team that finihed fourth.
“I kept thinking aout it, epeciall aout one thing that m aunt, Anne Jardin, who won two ronze
medal at the 1976 Olmpic, told me. he wa on the team to go to the 1980 Olmpic [in
Mocow] when Canada ocotted [ecaue of the oviet invaion of Afghanitan]. he told me he
regretted not going for another four ear.
“That’ what wa in the ack of m mind: ‘I have to do thi for me and I have to do thi for other
people who elieve in me.’ I want to inpire people. I don’t want them to look at me and a ‘he kind
of gave up.
Feature – Jul 3, 2015
OLYMPIAN BARBARA JARDIN, MANAGING
TYPE 1 DIABETES AND CROWDFUNDING
HER COMEBACK
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