EPISODE · Oct 5, 2023 · 58 MIN
Bruny Surin, Olympic Gold Medallist
from Toronto Legends · host Andrew Applebaum
Go Get It! 1996 Olympic Gold Medallist Sprinter & Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympics Bruny Surin talks about why ‘the me I see is the me I will be,’ coming to Quebec from Haiti as a 7 year old, his infatuation with Carl Lewis [and eventual visit to his Houston mansion], being linked together forever in Canadian sports history as brothers with Donovan Bailey/Robert Esmie/Glenroy Gilbert/Carlton Chambers, why he no longer accepts unsolicited sprinting challenges from the general public [nor from his daughters!], he shares inside information on the status of Andre De Grasse heading into the Paris 2024 Olympics [spoiler alert: Andre is going to be DANGEROUS!], his mixed results from applying his natural athletic abilities to canoeing, and he wonders whatever became of his Olympic Gold Medal-winning spikes?? For everything Bruny Surin, please go to https://www.surin.ca/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected] All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Go Get It! 1996 Olympic Gold Medallist Sprinter & Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympics Bruny Surin talks about why ‘the me I see is the me I will be,’ coming to Quebec from Haiti as a 7 year old, his infatuation with Carl Lewis [and eventual visit to his Houston mansion], being linked together forever in Canadian sports history as brothers with Donovan Bailey/Robert Esmie/Glenroy Gilbert/Carlton Chambers, why he no longer accepts unsolicited sprinting challenges from the general public [nor from his daughters!], he shares inside information on the status of Andre De Grasse heading into the Paris 2024 Olympics [spoiler alert: Andre is going to be DANGEROUS!], his mixed results from applying his natural athletic abilities to canoeing, and he wonders whatever became of his Olympic Gold Medal-winning spikes?? For everything Bruny Surin, please go to https://www.surin.ca/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected] All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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