The Ironman family: Ohana

Triple World Ironman Champion Mirinda Carfrae.

For an eighth consecutive year, on Sunday, August 18, Ironman Mont-Tremblant will transform our lovely part of the country into a land of extreme challenges and personal feats for more than 2700 athletes.

Behind the success of these events, which continue to attract thousands of participants every summer, there’s a fabulous team of volunteers and professionals, devoted and united.

In Hawaii, the sacred land where it all began, this family bears the name Ohana.

A championship atmosphere

Last June, during the eighth Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant, Australian Mirinda Carfrae – triple World Ironman Champion and World Ironman 70.3 Champion in 2007 – declared that she had rediscovered, on the Mont-Tremblant course, the atmosphere of the Ironman World Championship of Kona, Hawaii.

Mere seconds after crossing the finish line in first place, visibly moved, she confided that she had been touched by all the encouragement coming from the general public and the volunteers; it was almost as if the whole Mont-Tremblant community had carried her for the length of the race.

This statement takes on a particular significance, because it represents a true success of the Ironman Mont-Tremblant events in the world of the triathlon.

Now it’s possible, in a way, for the Ironman family to live the magic of the Kona World Championships at the other side of the world, in a small town in the Laurentians where people of undeniable charm and tact – who, it’s true, speak an English that is sometimes slightly broken – do everything they can to ensure the well-being of participants and make them feel like part of the family.

Because, as Lilo says to Stitch in the famous Walt Disney movie: “Ohana means family, family means that no-one should ever be abandoned, or forgotten.”

 

Guillaume Vincent430 Posts

Rédacteur et journaliste de profession, Guillaume Vincent a fait ses armes au sein de l’agence QMI. Il s’est joint au Tremblant Express en 2014. Promu en 2017, il y assume depuis le rôle de rédacteur en chef et directeur de la publication. / A writer and photojournalist by profession, Guillaume Vincent won his stripes in the QMI agency. He joined Tremblant Express in 2014. Promoted in 2017, he has been editor-in-chief and co-publisher since then.

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