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I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat.

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

Canada is hockey.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.