in 2014
I had the chance
olympics of sochi jalel aboard for
not an athlete an athlete who
performed at the Olympics
I was very lucky to find myself
on the most beautiful playground in the world
I was curious to know also
because I ‘m reading you led a little
investigation the boj was going to make a
exploration in order to write a
delivers a book that was about
dream to reality
so I’m here in sochi more beautiful
playground in the world for me
curious to know how these men and
these women of the giants in their
discipline had done to make their
dream a reality Olympic reality
and here I’ll make a little confession
because the information I was going to
looking there my curiosity well there
had a reason and this reason the
hold is failure
a few years ago I had
a form of failure
I had a project on which I
work I’m going to work a big
dream and I had not seen the totality
the full potential of this project there so
I find myself in Sochi to do some
interviews with athletes with
coaches with the coaches then
I was curious too, I wondered
questions to family members
I was really about to first
more information possible but well
often what I asked them in
first what was
athlete needs to get here to
what is the best
assets having a Canadian coach who
answered me it was the first
answer that I had an athlete has
need to know how to deal with the
checks do not understand the failure and of
use it as a lever to become
better to go further
when you say it was a
little resonance with me then my
gone so that one
very curious searched to learn
full of information to leave me
inspire by all I could
go reap by the things that I
saw the press conferences the
discussions that I could have
then at one point I found myself
at the first level there for
a ceremony ceremony two
medals and there was seen the
athletes literally jumped on the
podium to fetch their
medal I saw the smile I saw
the pride in the guardianship face in
before I said to myself wow it’s in
that kind of pride there I that I
want to live my life back to
Montreal
I started working on my
book then naturally which I had
still very beautiful stories to
can tell but I will stay with
a kind of life feeling
within
I said to myself at one point
well beautiful the Olympic dream is good
beautiful the stories of others but is
what that is really what I want
to do in life to tell
the story of others
one morning I remember I got up
look in the mirror and I
am asked a small question that can
seem simple enough I got
asked pony Norman piche it is
what is your dream
ironically I have not been able to
answer then I still did a
little bit too special and I
ended up finding it naturally
but before I go further and I have
want to ask you the question lift the
hand in the room the people who
know their dreams that have a
specific dream to accomplish that would be
ready to ship in anyway
interesting there is still a lot
of people who have not raised their hands
so some time later the dream
would have emerged the dream of connecting five
continents to swim it consisted of
what actually
five crossings around the world the
first was to connect Russia
in Alaska in the Strait of bering
crossing from Asia to America
second stage the pacific a little
stretch in the pacific to connect
the new Papua guinea to
indonesia then we headed
to europe turkey and greece
I reread and turkey to Greece for
make asia to europe
4th crossing of Spain in Morocco in
the Strait of Gibraltar and finally
to connect Egypt to Jordan in
the sea
Whew it happened last August 24th
we left Montreal and the team
we were five people traveled and the
November 17
we came back to montreal I had
won my bet the five crossings
had been realized and we were coming back
with a dream that had become
reality
it may sound a little bit simple
like that but I want you
bring back a few days before coming back
in montreal on november 15th
we are in jordan I am on the
terrace of my hotel room forward
from me there is the Red Sea which is
illuminated by the moon it is very beautiful
in fact this is the first time we have
find each member of the team
to have each our room because
during the three months we are in
shipping almost three months we have
always lived together in small
rooms in small apartments this
day on this set 24 hours a day
together in the proximity
and here I find myself alone to have a
kind of immensity it’s beautiful
the sky is full of canvases and then
before a little in notes I can see
egypt egypt we had left the
early morning it was still dark
to join jordan a little to my
right israel bassil which is the city
dilate and left
Saudi Arabia, which comes from
borders of arabia are there by little
close to ten kilometers a
kind of big clouds of light at
above arabia then we here in
egypt in egypt but rather in
Jordan is dark enough but I can
still see the whole desert
see the profile of the mountains and its
gorgeous chili I look at the
hoof calais then I have a little
of difficulty to believe it I just
connect five continents to swim
I have just made the bridge between ten countries
across borders
because borders there were
a lot
there were the borders
geopolitics naturally then all
permissions that’s the need
around the world to be able to
make the crossings actually the
permissions it was the nerve of
war of our expedition there was
the ben cultural boundaries
religious language
borders a
travel to 5 people at a time
it’s not always easy and beyond
of all that lease with my own
boundaries to mine mine my
mental physical limits
and then my fears because when I
found my dream
I did not just find a
dream that I also found
fears there were several
initially I said that
firstly it was way too much
big as project that it did not have any
meaning that it was totally unrealistic
that it was costing me a lot
too expensive then I was afraid of everything
sacrifices they were for that I
will have to do by engaging in this
project there the sacrifices it was
less complicated because I had
decided to see it a bit like
choice I was saying that involves
transformations in my life but let’s see
it’s like choices because that
could also lead me to live the most
beautiful experience of my life so I am
on my terrace
I observe all ages is in the process of
digest everything that just happened
I think back to crossing the
eight hours of swimming without stopping
to connect the two countries
when he has time to drink then to
to eat I had to turn on my back
to click because this day
that was November the 15th it was the
day of the crossing and we could
not to deal with the weather
why because in among the
authorizations we had needed
authorizations from the Ministry of
Egypt’s defense is very very
complicated and the only day we
could do it the one we have
so we had still embarked
in the adventured in a sea that was
chaotic eight hours of swimming to change
so without stopping next to me ben he
there was someone in kayak who were
there to be sure to lead me the
direction to make sure of my
security
because I naturally have some
eyes in the water then it took
someone to see around the
marine predators
because it was part of the dangers
in the Red Sea especially he
are rockets
I’ve seen many of them
saw a thirty were small
like that big babies like that
finally there was finally a pack and
of goals of challenges to take up when
one thinks of the rpt bering strait cdo
frosty but it’s also the orcs that
are there it’s also walrus
seals in the pacific
it’s a little quieter
stretch that I did but there was
jellyfish jellyfish that was
pretty formidable that could even be
deadly
luckily it did not happen to me
but I was stung all along
the crossing feeling of burns from
electric shock of razor blades that
pass on the parts of the skin that
are exposed to water the Gibraltar of
challenges still enough a laptop
because it gibraltar it’s the strait
where there is the most traffic
maritime in the world
two cargo ships so sneaking through
something like 300 to 500 cargo this
which also brings its share of pollution the
red sea but I told you about
small sharks I spoke to
huge waves
so I told you about the guy who
accompany me they see to this
kind of security him eyes off
of water month they are in the water in
a world that is quite fascinating a
mystic world
the bone is my favorite element
I love and I swim my face in
water and then about 50 times by
minute but I turn my head like that
to take a breath
I hardly have the mouth that comes out of
the water to breathe in the hollow of the
wave
then I go back to the water and I swim a
a little bit further we have a
boat that is there on the boat there is
the other members of the crew who
are there with with a group
of Egyptian dignitaries
military journalists and who we
follow this kind of big boats
there when I can see him I see him
go like that he walks his
kind of big boats there and then I
say oh my god her brush begs her to
knees I tell myself
I’m wearing it I’m in young
age alas a moment well i’m turning
it’s been hours here that we have a few
hours then I look sylvain
quickly naturally and then I
said we are returned or I hear
half
I continue to eat I said on and where
he says we are not made to half
at the loud noise when I tell you that
it was chaos it was really the
chaos to give you an idea
the energy that I had to deploy to
that moment was two to three
times what I gave in
crossings where it was quieter
when I said that if I stopped a
little bit we were backing away so I
young age then I say to myself oh well I am
returned to the 5th crossing and the others
have been successful have read everything the
cross all the destinations I
will take a long, huge challenge
each crossing is a small miracle
because we have almost did not make the
but here we are at the last
on the verge of realizing my dream and I
begins to have doubts
I’ve been preparing for two years
to make this expedition there a
preparation that was still
quite important
I had to swim a little over 2500
kilometers just to prepare myself for
give you an idea about
little senat brushstrokes
represents about two million
I speak discs or pitcher
because I’m going back to the
crossing in fact with all my fears
that I had at the beginning that’s what I
I said to myself the little arm stroke I
had told myself instead of thinking of all
limitations instead of thinking about
all that can do you not the facts
whose 6 points the first support
embark on the path your dream then
next door a jar at a time and
hubert robert or is it me
was holding the Viennese coffee of the hours and
hours that I’m swimming that I’m giving
arms that I dread to arrive
there and at one point I start
think of all kinds of things I
think of my daughter among other things that I
will see again in two days I think about
my mother of obama my father I had when
even seen some nice basics because my
mother
the taught to have faith had
always said if you believe deeply
in your dreams that you put yourself in action
but everything is possible
and then my father him what he me
said it’s putting love in your
heart I remember well love
in his case
cross in your dreams deeply
take action but love in
your heart then when still despite
the difficulties
I was in the water in an element
I love who I am passionate about
from my heart then I continue to move forward
a little brush stroke at a time I’m
I’m ready to have a lot of images
precisely my childhood the little Norman
hyperactive very creative but
unstoppable who had had skates from
hockey in the feet even before
maybe market because the water
they know it was the story of my
father this is his dream had been playing in
European league that dreamed of the
national league but it did not have
worked
then he’d transpose me a little bit
dream I was seeing myself atik had pretty much
close to like that tell him a little bit in
train from keek I stopped playing
in hockey because there ok it was not
my hobby it was hers I had drunk
of danger I saw myself at
adolescence the first projects the
first trips while traveling
and every time I saw again the
images like that it gave me
the energy to continue jrv a
twenty when I started when
I was at school but my classes at
school when I met the woman
of my life
when I started working in
showbiz as manager
of artists and that moment there bah listen
it was the distinct life
extraordinary it was beautiful and then in
more in love we were one then we
had dreams then we wanted them
realize I saw the thirties too
I was swimming then I went back to
more difficult moments
the beautiful achievements but
chess too who had been the target
the kind of slap in the face that
on himself pickup stats amp to the bull the
suicide of a person very close to
family love separation then
all these things there I thought well I
continue to eat then I told myself
still everything separates while I
could do with white water
it was wrong but first
thank you when I arrived from the other
side after eight hours of swimming
it seemed like a blow to me
finger time had passed and then despite
the pains that I had developed at
cause currents cause waves to
make me brush
I had more pain I had the taste
to go back to the other side of
return to swimming in egypt
the adrenaline
Finally, what what what
is someone’s door why embark
in a project like this I have the
taste to tell you why not why
not embark on stuff like
this one me actually was the
meeting all of all things
I like to swim
discover the world
it was the idea of raising girls
challenges of feeling that I was giving
meaning to my life and then to life in
general it was to get through
the mountain of emotion and the mountain
Russian emotions everyday and in
makes me feel alive Is it
was easy this project absolutely there
not every day from the beginning
until the end
there were obstacles there were some
challenges and situations
complex but my little philosophy that
I had it on it was all
just tell me that if we have a
problem is because a solution
but if there is no solution it is
because there is no problem then
by dint of finding solutions
that’s how we managed to do
the expedition do I
will start over again I will leave again
right now
leaving here to relive a
experience as alone because as of the
early on from the departure have left for
the expedition since already in the process of
think of a new expedition
because in the action drops to the
leads to results then in their
Room dreams brings new dreams
yes, I already have my head
full of ideas ready to go back on
a new expedition then to me
launch to the adventurer again before
to finish I want
ask yourself a quick question
simple in appearance and those who have
not raise your hand and what is it
your dream and the second what is it
the first sport you can do
to embark on the choice of your
dream
thank you
[Applause]
I had the chance
olympics of sochi jalel aboard for
not an athlete an athlete who
performed at the Olympics
I was very lucky to find myself
on the most beautiful playground in the world
I was curious to know also
because I ‘m reading you led a little
investigation the boj was going to make a
exploration in order to write a
delivers a book that was about
dream to reality
so I’m here in sochi more beautiful
playground in the world for me
curious to know how these men and
these women of the giants in their
discipline had done to make their
dream a reality Olympic reality
and here I’ll make a little confession
because the information I was going to
looking there my curiosity well there
had a reason and this reason the
hold is failure
a few years ago I had
a form of failure
I had a project on which I
work I’m going to work a big
dream and I had not seen the totality
the full potential of this project there so
I find myself in Sochi to do some
interviews with athletes with
coaches with the coaches then
I was curious too, I wondered
questions to family members
I was really about to first
more information possible but well
often what I asked them in
first what was
athlete needs to get here to
what is the best
assets having a Canadian coach who
answered me it was the first
answer that I had an athlete has
need to know how to deal with the
checks do not understand the failure and of
use it as a lever to become
better to go further
when you say it was a
little resonance with me then my
gone so that one
very curious searched to learn
full of information to leave me
inspire by all I could
go reap by the things that I
saw the press conferences the
discussions that I could have
then at one point I found myself
at the first level there for
a ceremony ceremony two
medals and there was seen the
athletes literally jumped on the
podium to fetch their
medal I saw the smile I saw
the pride in the guardianship face in
before I said to myself wow it’s in
that kind of pride there I that I
want to live my life back to
Montreal
I started working on my
book then naturally which I had
still very beautiful stories to
can tell but I will stay with
a kind of life feeling
within
I said to myself at one point
well beautiful the Olympic dream is good
beautiful the stories of others but is
what that is really what I want
to do in life to tell
the story of others
one morning I remember I got up
look in the mirror and I
am asked a small question that can
seem simple enough I got
asked pony Norman piche it is
what is your dream
ironically I have not been able to
answer then I still did a
little bit too special and I
ended up finding it naturally
but before I go further and I have
want to ask you the question lift the
hand in the room the people who
know their dreams that have a
specific dream to accomplish that would be
ready to ship in anyway
interesting there is still a lot
of people who have not raised their hands
so some time later the dream
would have emerged the dream of connecting five
continents to swim it consisted of
what actually
five crossings around the world the
first was to connect Russia
in Alaska in the Strait of bering
crossing from Asia to America
second stage the pacific a little
stretch in the pacific to connect
the new Papua guinea to
indonesia then we headed
to europe turkey and greece
I reread and turkey to Greece for
make asia to europe
4th crossing of Spain in Morocco in
the Strait of Gibraltar and finally
to connect Egypt to Jordan in
the sea
Whew it happened last August 24th
we left Montreal and the team
we were five people traveled and the
November 17
we came back to montreal I had
won my bet the five crossings
had been realized and we were coming back
with a dream that had become
reality
it may sound a little bit simple
like that but I want you
bring back a few days before coming back
in montreal on november 15th
we are in jordan I am on the
terrace of my hotel room forward
from me there is the Red Sea which is
illuminated by the moon it is very beautiful
in fact this is the first time we have
find each member of the team
to have each our room because
during the three months we are in
shipping almost three months we have
always lived together in small
rooms in small apartments this
day on this set 24 hours a day
together in the proximity
and here I find myself alone to have a
kind of immensity it’s beautiful
the sky is full of canvases and then
before a little in notes I can see
egypt egypt we had left the
early morning it was still dark
to join jordan a little to my
right israel bassil which is the city
dilate and left
Saudi Arabia, which comes from
borders of arabia are there by little
close to ten kilometers a
kind of big clouds of light at
above arabia then we here in
egypt in egypt but rather in
Jordan is dark enough but I can
still see the whole desert
see the profile of the mountains and its
gorgeous chili I look at the
hoof calais then I have a little
of difficulty to believe it I just
connect five continents to swim
I have just made the bridge between ten countries
across borders
because borders there were
a lot
there were the borders
geopolitics naturally then all
permissions that’s the need
around the world to be able to
make the crossings actually the
permissions it was the nerve of
war of our expedition there was
the ben cultural boundaries
religious language
borders a
travel to 5 people at a time
it’s not always easy and beyond
of all that lease with my own
boundaries to mine mine my
mental physical limits
and then my fears because when I
found my dream
I did not just find a
dream that I also found
fears there were several
initially I said that
firstly it was way too much
big as project that it did not have any
meaning that it was totally unrealistic
that it was costing me a lot
too expensive then I was afraid of everything
sacrifices they were for that I
will have to do by engaging in this
project there the sacrifices it was
less complicated because I had
decided to see it a bit like
choice I was saying that involves
transformations in my life but let’s see
it’s like choices because that
could also lead me to live the most
beautiful experience of my life so I am
on my terrace
I observe all ages is in the process of
digest everything that just happened
I think back to crossing the
eight hours of swimming without stopping
to connect the two countries
when he has time to drink then to
to eat I had to turn on my back
to click because this day
that was November the 15th it was the
day of the crossing and we could
not to deal with the weather
why because in among the
authorizations we had needed
authorizations from the Ministry of
Egypt’s defense is very very
complicated and the only day we
could do it the one we have
so we had still embarked
in the adventured in a sea that was
chaotic eight hours of swimming to change
so without stopping next to me ben he
there was someone in kayak who were
there to be sure to lead me the
direction to make sure of my
security
because I naturally have some
eyes in the water then it took
someone to see around the
marine predators
because it was part of the dangers
in the Red Sea especially he
are rockets
I’ve seen many of them
saw a thirty were small
like that big babies like that
finally there was finally a pack and
of goals of challenges to take up when
one thinks of the rpt bering strait cdo
frosty but it’s also the orcs that
are there it’s also walrus
seals in the pacific
it’s a little quieter
stretch that I did but there was
jellyfish jellyfish that was
pretty formidable that could even be
deadly
luckily it did not happen to me
but I was stung all along
the crossing feeling of burns from
electric shock of razor blades that
pass on the parts of the skin that
are exposed to water the Gibraltar of
challenges still enough a laptop
because it gibraltar it’s the strait
where there is the most traffic
maritime in the world
two cargo ships so sneaking through
something like 300 to 500 cargo this
which also brings its share of pollution the
red sea but I told you about
small sharks I spoke to
huge waves
so I told you about the guy who
accompany me they see to this
kind of security him eyes off
of water month they are in the water in
a world that is quite fascinating a
mystic world
the bone is my favorite element
I love and I swim my face in
water and then about 50 times by
minute but I turn my head like that
to take a breath
I hardly have the mouth that comes out of
the water to breathe in the hollow of the
wave
then I go back to the water and I swim a
a little bit further we have a
boat that is there on the boat there is
the other members of the crew who
are there with with a group
of Egyptian dignitaries
military journalists and who we
follow this kind of big boats
there when I can see him I see him
go like that he walks his
kind of big boats there and then I
say oh my god her brush begs her to
knees I tell myself
I’m wearing it I’m in young
age alas a moment well i’m turning
it’s been hours here that we have a few
hours then I look sylvain
quickly naturally and then I
said we are returned or I hear
half
I continue to eat I said on and where
he says we are not made to half
at the loud noise when I tell you that
it was chaos it was really the
chaos to give you an idea
the energy that I had to deploy to
that moment was two to three
times what I gave in
crossings where it was quieter
when I said that if I stopped a
little bit we were backing away so I
young age then I say to myself oh well I am
returned to the 5th crossing and the others
have been successful have read everything the
cross all the destinations I
will take a long, huge challenge
each crossing is a small miracle
because we have almost did not make the
but here we are at the last
on the verge of realizing my dream and I
begins to have doubts
I’ve been preparing for two years
to make this expedition there a
preparation that was still
quite important
I had to swim a little over 2500
kilometers just to prepare myself for
give you an idea about
little senat brushstrokes
represents about two million
I speak discs or pitcher
because I’m going back to the
crossing in fact with all my fears
that I had at the beginning that’s what I
I said to myself the little arm stroke I
had told myself instead of thinking of all
limitations instead of thinking about
all that can do you not the facts
whose 6 points the first support
embark on the path your dream then
next door a jar at a time and
hubert robert or is it me
was holding the Viennese coffee of the hours and
hours that I’m swimming that I’m giving
arms that I dread to arrive
there and at one point I start
think of all kinds of things I
think of my daughter among other things that I
will see again in two days I think about
my mother of obama my father I had when
even seen some nice basics because my
mother
the taught to have faith had
always said if you believe deeply
in your dreams that you put yourself in action
but everything is possible
and then my father him what he me
said it’s putting love in your
heart I remember well love
in his case
cross in your dreams deeply
take action but love in
your heart then when still despite
the difficulties
I was in the water in an element
I love who I am passionate about
from my heart then I continue to move forward
a little brush stroke at a time I’m
I’m ready to have a lot of images
precisely my childhood the little Norman
hyperactive very creative but
unstoppable who had had skates from
hockey in the feet even before
maybe market because the water
they know it was the story of my
father this is his dream had been playing in
European league that dreamed of the
national league but it did not have
worked
then he’d transpose me a little bit
dream I was seeing myself atik had pretty much
close to like that tell him a little bit in
train from keek I stopped playing
in hockey because there ok it was not
my hobby it was hers I had drunk
of danger I saw myself at
adolescence the first projects the
first trips while traveling
and every time I saw again the
images like that it gave me
the energy to continue jrv a
twenty when I started when
I was at school but my classes at
school when I met the woman
of my life
when I started working in
showbiz as manager
of artists and that moment there bah listen
it was the distinct life
extraordinary it was beautiful and then in
more in love we were one then we
had dreams then we wanted them
realize I saw the thirties too
I was swimming then I went back to
more difficult moments
the beautiful achievements but
chess too who had been the target
the kind of slap in the face that
on himself pickup stats amp to the bull the
suicide of a person very close to
family love separation then
all these things there I thought well I
continue to eat then I told myself
still everything separates while I
could do with white water
it was wrong but first
thank you when I arrived from the other
side after eight hours of swimming
it seemed like a blow to me
finger time had passed and then despite
the pains that I had developed at
cause currents cause waves to
make me brush
I had more pain I had the taste
to go back to the other side of
return to swimming in egypt
the adrenaline
Finally, what what what
is someone’s door why embark
in a project like this I have the
taste to tell you why not why
not embark on stuff like
this one me actually was the
meeting all of all things
I like to swim
discover the world
it was the idea of raising girls
challenges of feeling that I was giving
meaning to my life and then to life in
general it was to get through
the mountain of emotion and the mountain
Russian emotions everyday and in
makes me feel alive Is it
was easy this project absolutely there
not every day from the beginning
until the end
there were obstacles there were some
challenges and situations
complex but my little philosophy that
I had it on it was all
just tell me that if we have a
problem is because a solution
but if there is no solution it is
because there is no problem then
by dint of finding solutions
that’s how we managed to do
the expedition do I
will start over again I will leave again
right now
leaving here to relive a
experience as alone because as of the
early on from the departure have left for
the expedition since already in the process of
think of a new expedition
because in the action drops to the
leads to results then in their
Room dreams brings new dreams
yes, I already have my head
full of ideas ready to go back on
a new expedition then to me
launch to the adventurer again before
to finish I want
ask yourself a quick question
simple in appearance and those who have
not raise your hand and what is it
your dream and the second what is it
the first sport you can do
to embark on the choice of your
dream
thank you
[Applause]
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