The former skier Dominique Gisin won the 2014 Olympic Gold in Sochi. Today, she is an advocate for people in Need.
Munich –had So much time, as it is currently Dominique Gisin never. Their lectures were all cancelled, because she has registered for the Master’s degree in physics at the ETH Zurich. The last two weeks, the former skier had to Buffalo. A test has already completed, the next one is in August.
“The game with the forces has always fascinated me,” says the Swiss. After your retirement 2015 , she enrolled for physics in Zurich and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree. Directly after active career as a professional athlete in a highly complex subject at an internationally renowned University, not to study was a step in the Gisin in the connector easily. “I was burned out and am not started immediately, however in the study, which was less intense. This has brought me to the limits, but it was also totally fascinating.“ A large part of the fascination for the laws of nature Gisin received from father Leonard. As a student of the Abbey school in Engelberg, she was amazed at how clearly the teacher was able to explain complicated issues. In the context of the documentary, “Dominique”, the 35-Year-old visited her old school again. In the working space of the father, Leonhard’s two posters – one from Albert Einstein, one of the Gisin to hang today.
2014 won the Swiss Gold in the downhill at the Olympic Games in Sochi. The highlight of your career. A career, which was hanging due to numerous serious injuries, often “hanging by a thread”. Still, it was always clear what a privilege it is that you can live your dream as a successful Skier. And that she wants to give something back.
For your career by the end of Gisin Ambassador of the Swiss Red cross (SRK) . The Agency acts not only in Switzerland but also internationally for people in Need, and initiated projects. Famous is the goal of the Gisin was to be never. But if you can teach through your radiance as an Olympian attention to such projects, says the.
From the first trip with SRK to Bolivia was the then, but “totally shocked”. The people lived in huts and partly in clay. After a week, the whole Delegation was ill, Gisin had days 39 degree fever. The medical infrastructure? More than flawed: “an upset stomach to die? This sounds maybe ridiculous. There, it is a reality.“
The focus on grievances to draw material things to get and Know this is a – “the strategy for the future must come from the community itself,” says Gisin. The local people are for you, the Valuable . She remembers a Moment during their visit to Kyrgyzstan: The whole village pitched in and built a channel that redirects the next high water. The huts of the villagers are no longer flooded. The projects should in the medium term, be self-supporting, but also to travel with the SRK Gisin remains with the municipalities in close contact and followed the developments.
last summer, she flew to Togo and attended slimming, among other things, a Station for the Blood. A Journalist asked, how much do not need to be thrown away by the blood, because it is good. “Ten percent,” said the nurse. “Because Of Malaria?”, the Journalist asked. “Then we would have to discard 80 percent,” said the assistant.
Dominique Gisin hopes that the focus returns back to the Essentials. Many people would quickly forget what privileges you have. Many of the problems that have been stylized in front of the Corona-crisis high, “playing no role”. Togo will not be the last trip have been: “The pandemic is something New for us, people in poorer countries are faced every day with deadly diseases.”
Nico-Marius Schmitz
