The high mass of American football will not take place until Sunday evening, but the parents of the snowboarder of Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Eliot Grondin, have already experienced their “Super Bowl”. The height of history, it was on the side of Mélanie Turcotte and Jean-Francis Grondin that the victory fell in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Surrounded by a few relatives, the Grondin-Turcottes celebrated as they should have won the silver medal for their son Elliott in snowboardcross. You guessed the family home show was much livelier than the annual NFL Finals. “There was action,” smiles the Olympic medalist’s mother, Mélanie Turcotte. Even my son Ishmael, who is usually very calm, felt like biting his nails looking at his brother. »