Jacqueline Simoneau: How medical school has helped me in artistic swimming.

Things have changed a lot for Jacqueline Simoneau in the last three years.
After the last Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021, the Canadian decided she'd had enough artistic swimming.
Having given a decade of her life to the sport, Simoneau decided to take some time for herself and chase another dream: completing her studies in podiatry at medical school.
In her time away from artistic swimming, the sport changed. A new scoring system was introduced, while men were given the go-ahead to compete in team events at the Olympic Games.
The changes re-lit a fire within the 27-year-old, who made a successful return to the sport by winning her first World Championships gold in Doha in February after trying for nine years.
"I'm a fairly logical person, and so my motivation to return was based on a pros and cons list," she said to Olympics.com in an exclusive interview conducted in Qatar a few days after her win at Worlds. "I had this idea when I was doing my clinical rotations this past summer.
"And there were so many more pros than cons at this point. Life is too short to have regrets, so I came back. #olympicgames
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