Sylvie Fréchette
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June 27, 1967 Montreal, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Synchronized swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sylvie Fréchette, MSC (born June 27, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired Canadian synchronized swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1999, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. She has also contributed as a swimmer, designer, and coach to the synchronized-swimming portions of Cirque du Soleil's water-based stage production O, which opened at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas in 1998.
Personal
Sylie Frechette was engaged to her business partner Sylvain Lake, but he committed suicide a week before the 1992 Games. Lake was a television track analyst and former track athlete (400m).[1]
Today she lives with her two kids and her husband.
References
External links
- CBC radio interview
- 1992 CBC television interview
- Women in Sport biography
- Sylvie Frechette - Patron Saint Of Patience And Vision
- On the Bright Side
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