Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Optimum nutrition is an integral part of the life of a sports person to stay fit and come from wear & tear. There is no doubt you too need to take special care of your diet? Do you follow a strict menu to stay healthy and physically fit? Enlist your top 5 energy boosters?
Ms. Chloé Dufour-Lapointe:
Like I said, I prefer gluten free and no dairy so often on the road, I bring my own gluten-free cereal and peanut butter. I really love to drink my bio-drink when I’m on the road or in the race. I really like to have my protein. On a World Cup tour, you have to stick with what you know works best for you.
I like to fuel with Super. I like to use my Biocell to recover, if I do not have time to eat, or some vegan option to make a poke bowl and I add some protein to that like shrimps. I try to stay with raw food most of the time. We can eat healthy with good taste these days. We learn how to use the veggies and fruits to make it good.
I do a healthy banana bread, which I sometimes make before travelling so I can have on the plane. I do not have a strict diet, but I know what is good for me and what my body will be happy with.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Being a professional athlete, you are a role model for many striving to make it their dream come true, provide us with some motivational words to help others climb up the ladder of success in this field?
Ms. Chloé Dufour-Lapointe:
For all the people who have a dream, the main thing is to always go back on your feet. You can fall once, twice or three times, it doesn’t matter, how many times you fall, because a champion always gets back on their feet and try it again, and do it again.
You must have the belief in yourself that you’re going to realize it one day. It comes with hard work and passion, and a lot of love for your sport, or anything that you want to do. Find the strength in you and you’re going to achieve what you love the most in life.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
At the Sochi Olympics in 2014, you, Justine, and Maxime all competed in the moguls’ event. This marked just the fifth time three siblings competed together at the same event in the Olympics. Tell us how does it feel to have your own sisters standing by you at all times and being in the same sport?
Ms. Chloé Dufour-Lapointe:
The year of the Olympics was very emotional. Justine had already qualified; Maxime and I were in the process of getting qualified. I did have some good results, so I knew I would be on the team, but Maxime needed to do a pull jump. I remember missing the finals, Maxime was in there, she skied so well, and she did the pull jump. I was going crazy, because I knew it was going to be such a big deal to have the three of us together at the Olympics.
For the three of us, it meant a lot, because since we were kids, we’ve always been together. We train together, we eat together, and we travel together. We need each other, because we help each other to rise up. So to be at the Olympics together, it was our casual competition mindset. It is a family dream as well, our parents raised the three of us, not in mind, that we’ll be Olympic Champions, but with the three of us having so much drive and dreams, it would have been hard to not be an Olympian.
Maxime was the one who started out in this sport, then I followed and then Justine followed, so it was pretty significant for the three of us to be at the Olympics. It’s a girl power!
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