Team Canada Olympians and Paralympians connecting live with students across Canada

Did you catch the live chat?

Joey Duck
Classroom Champions
3 min readMar 1, 2022

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The Team Canada Champion Chats live chat took place last week and it was not to be missed! Over 400 schools throughout Canada tuned in live to listen to stories of perseverance, success and failure from world-class athletes and ask them questions live on the chat!

The bi-lingual live chats were hosted by the incredible 9x Paralympian Benoît Huot and 2x Olympian Martha McCabe. They were joined by Olympians who had just returned from Beijing with their stories of the Games, and Paralympians who were in their final preparations.

So who was there?!

The English chat was joined by…
⛸ Figure Skating athlete, Keegan Messing
🏒 Olympic gold medalist in Hockey, Jocelyne Larocque
🏂 Para Snowboard athlete, Tyler Turner
🎿 Para Alpine Skier, Frédérique Turgeon

While the French chat the wonderful conversation between…
🏂 Olympic Silver & Bronze medalist in Snowboard Cross, Eliot Grondin
⛸ Olympic Gold medalist in Speed Skating, Valérie Maltais
🏂 Para Snowboard athlete, Sandrine Hamel
🎿 Para Alpine Skier, Karolina Wisniewska

Click here to catch up on the French conversation.

Did you miss the chat?

If you missed the conversation live, do not worry! You and your students can still catch up on the conversations and learn from these amazing athletes.

➡️ Click here to catch up on the English conversation

➡️ Click here to catch up on the French conversation.

Enjoy additional resources for your students

In addition to the live chats, Team Canada Champion Chats also have an entire dashboard of free educational videos and other resources for parents and teachers to bring the many lessons from the Olympic and Paralympic Games into their homes and classrooms.

Access the resources for free here. (Or in French here!)

Team Canada Champion Chats, a partnership between the Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian Paralympic Committee, and Classroom Champions, is a free national education program designed to empower Canadian students to focus on themes including embracing challenges, mental health, diversity and inclusion, achieving goals, and ultimately become a champion in their community.

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Joey Duck
Classroom Champions

Joey is a former British track & field athlete who now works for Classroom Champions as Marketing Coordinator.