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April 28, 2021 article by MARIE-JOSÉE R. ROY in Le Journal de Montreal:
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«Pression»: les sacrifices derrière les paillettes
«Pression», le nouveau documentaire du Bureau d’enquête à aboutir sur Club illico jeudi, porte bien son nom.
www.journaldemontreal.com
To stay slim. To continue to perform after an injury. Financial pressure, too, because the practice of sport is so expensive that failure is absolutely not a possible outcome.
Journalist Marie-Christine Noël (The pilot of the stars, Detox, Confronting the unknown) herself skated until she was a teenager, until she reached the intermediate level. And already, at the time, she felt the weight of expectations, disproportionate demands, the culture of silence and even sometimes the disgust of sport, which rumbled between two blows of blades among her comrades.
“You had to be perfect, right down to your fingertips,” she sums up.
Noël therefore wanted to expose the other side of the coin of an environment where suffering is normalized, where it becomes synonymous with success.
In the great report produced by Ninon Pednault (assisted by cinematographer Guillaume Shea Blais, who filmed the skaters in action on the ice), athletes Joannie Rochette, Cynthia Phaneuf, Jessica Dubé, Shawn Sawyer, Charlie Bilodeau and Julianne Séguin, as well that Camille Ruest, who is currently part of the Canadian figure skating team, testify to their experience and the unattainable standards that they themselves, or their colleagues, have had to impose in the hope of always shining more in their discipline.
"They wanted to speak to change these mentalities," notes Ninon Pednault.
Joëlle Carpentier, consultant in performance psychology at UQAM, and Sylvain Croteau, general manager of Sport'Aide, also speak with a view to raising awareness in Pressure.
However, interestingly, Patinage Québec and Skate Canada refused - by email - to intervene in the visually magnificent film which takes us to the rinks of the North Shore and the South Shore of Montreal at the time of the winter sunsets and sunrises.
“I would have liked to ask them questions about the testimonies that we had, specifies Marie-Christine Noël, but we were not able to do so. From the start of the investigation, we were told that it would be difficult to talk to them. ”
"It confirms that it is very hermetic," adds Ninon Pednault.
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