Unfiltered Athletes

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Ali Nullmeyer is a professional skier in the slalom category. Even though she's only 25, Ali already rode the elite athlete rollercoaster, after being severely injured in 2017, coming back in 2019, getting her best World Cup results early 2022, before a disappointing result at the 2022 Olympics. She explains how important it is for her to keep a good sport-life balance and healthy relationship wit...

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Valeria Tsoy is a snowboarder who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, representing Kazakhstan. Her career and post career are a model of resilience and grit. She went through lots of lows, like the risk of losing her funding one year before the Olympics, to amazing highs, when she achieved country-wide fame and recognition a few weeks later following Olympics-qualifying trials. After di...

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At the moment of the recording, this summer, Hergy played for the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL, the Canadian Football League. Since then, he was transferred to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. We go in depth about the life and struggle of elite football players, and we discuss the importance of keeping high hopes and a solid mental, in a sport where you don't control everything about your performance. Ev...

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James Piccoli is a pro cyclist, who started competing late, around 20, when he wanted to test the objects he was building for school projects, while studying Mechanical Engineering at Concordia University, in Montreal. And even then, once he became a pro, it took him more than 4 years to find what he considered to be "success", and get a decent pro cyclist contract. James is the perfect exemple of...

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Some of you might know Shady El Nahas from the TV show L'Ile de l'Amour, but most would know him for his offensive and relentless attitude on the tatami. Shady was born in Egypt and started judo for self-defense after suffering from bullying at school. He climbed the world ranking at a crazy speed, staying world #2 for more than 2 years in the 100kg category. Shady is not hiding: he knows he has t...

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Une fois n'est pas coutume, dans cet épisode en francais, je rencontre Sasha Laoun au café Le Club, pour une discussion des plus intéressante. Tout d'abord, un grand merci au Club de m'accueillir pour l'enregistrement de cette épisode! Sasha est une golfeuse Québécoise, membre des Carabins de l'Université de Montréal, et également de l'équipe Canadienne de golf pour sourds et malentendants. Née av...

Sage Watson is a 2-time Olympian and 400m hurdles Canadian record holder. Known worldwide for the red lipstick she wears in competition, Sage is a dedicated and self-conscious athlete, and a fighting individual with well-defined values, as her one-of-a-kind approach to sponsorship shows. Diagnosed with dyslexia early in her studies, she graduated university at the top of her class; she applied the...

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#20 | 🏊‍♂️ Cédric Fofana | Bouncing back from heartbreaking first Olympics Cédric Fofana is a diver on the 3m springboard. Cédric went to the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where he finished last, after a heartbreaking experience; he brings us into the behind-the-scene of this disappointing yet enriching experience, which he knows made him a better diver, and will give him higher chances for the upco...

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If you look up Akeem Haynes online, most of what you will read is about his Track and Field career and his Bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics on the 4x100m. That's a about 10% of this episode. You’ll hear about Akeem's inspiring life story, which includes a period of homelessness with him mom, in the cold Canadian winter, when he was only 13. This episode is like no other, it is grit, perseverance...

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Belinda Trussell is a two-time Olympian in Dressage, one of the 3 Olympic disciplines in horse riding. We recorded the podcast at Oakcrest Farm, north of Toronto, a land she acquired in 1996 and where she built a horse training facility, now hosting and training more than 20 horses. Belinda brings us into the world of this noble sport, where the connexion between the athlete and the horse reaches...

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Laurence St-Germain made the front page of sport news in February 2023 when she became World champion in Slalom, beating the long-lasting champion and superstar Mikaela Schiffrin. It wasn't easy for Laurence to get to the top; from being rejected on the National team and moving to Vermont when she was 19, to doubting about her capabilities to compete with the best in the World just a few weeks bef...

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In this episode, Phylicia George joins me at Le Club Café Cycliste, for a wonderful discussion, exploring her inspiring double career, and all the highs and lows she faced in her journey. Phylicia is an incredibly friendly and well-spoken person with a radiant contagious smile, someone everybody would like be able to call a friend. She is one of the few athletes that competed in both the Summer Ol...

In this episode, Phylicia George joins me at Le Club Café Cycliste, for a wonderful discussion, exploring her inspiring double career, and all the highs and lows she faced in her journey. Phylicia is an incredibly friendly and well-spoken person with a radiant contagious smile, someone everybody would like be able to call a friend. She is one of the few athletes that competed in both the Summer Ol...

Natasha Wodak is a 2-time Olympian, initially running the 10,000m, before moving to the Marathon. Her journey is not the typical "succeed early, retire early"; when she was younger, she didn't have the confidence she could be a champion, so she took a break from running for a few years, before finding the passion again. And this passion is the biggest part of her amazing return, her climb through...