{"id":18658,"date":"2011-09-18T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/francois-drolet-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:29:40","slug":"francois-drolet","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/francois-drolet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Drolet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Le Canadien Fran\u00e7ois Drolet a remport\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille d\u2019or en courte piste comme membre du relais 5000 m\u00e8tres \u00e0 Nagano 1998.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fran\u00e7ois Drolet montrait d\u00e9j\u00e0 un impressionnant curriculum vitae en courte piste avant <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/jeux\/1998-nagano\/\">Nagano 1998<\/a>. \u00c0 sa seule pr\u00e9sence olympique, au relais 5000 m\u00e8tres au Japon, Drolet ainsi que ses co\u00e9quipiers <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/eric-bedard\/\">\u00c9ric B\u00e9dard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/derrick-campbell\/\">Derrick Campbell <\/a>et <a href=\"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/marc-gagnon\/\">Marc Gagnon<\/a> sont sortis rapidement des blocs en finale et ont \u00e9vit\u00e9 les collisions avec les autres \u00e9quipes, ce qui leur a permis de rafler l\u2019or. Individuellement, Drolet a termin\u00e9 16<sup>e<\/sup> au 500 m et 11<sup>e<\/sup> au 1000 m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avant Nagano 1998, Drolet a remport\u00e9 deux m\u00e9dailles aux Championnats du monde en 1996 (l\u2019or par \u00e9quipe, l\u2019argent au relais 5000 m) et une m\u00e9daille d\u2019argent au relais lors des Championnats du monde 1997.&nbsp; Il a fait ses d\u00e9buts internationaux lors des Universiades d\u2019hiver 1995, obtenant deux m\u00e9dailles de bronze (1000 m\u00e8tres, 1500 m\u00e8tres).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drolet a longtemps jou\u00e9 au hockey avant de pratiquer le patinage de vitesse courte piste. Il s\u2019est retir\u00e9 de la comp\u00e9tition apr\u00e8s les Jeux de Nagano pour se concentrer sur ses \u00e9tudes en commerce \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval. Il est devenu le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Nagano Skate, fournisseur officiel d\u2019\u00e9quipement de Patinage de vitesse Canada. Il s\u2019est sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 en \u00e9quipement hors glace. Il a aussi travaill\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s de l\u2019\u00e9quipe canadienne dans le cadre des Jeux de Turin en 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de ses co\u00e9quipiers m\u00e9daill\u00e9s d\u2019or \u00e0 Nagano 1998, Drolet a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Canadien Fran\u00e7ois Drolet a remport\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille d\u2019or en courte piste comme membre du relais 5000 m\u00e8tres \u00e0 Nagano&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86211,"template":"","tags":[9114162,415985148,415984449],"hof-categories":[],"year-inducted":[],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983969],"sport":[51196772],"game":[9241255],"team":[415983869],"event":[181821772,181821962,181823389],"province":[],"class_list":["post-18658","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-medaille-dor","tag-nagano-1998","tag-short-track-speed-skating","gender-masculin","season-hiver","sport-patinage-de-vitesse-courte-piste","game-1998-nagano","team-nagano-1998-patinage-de-vitesse-courte-piste","event-1-000-m-hommes","event-500-m-hommes","event-relais-5-000-m-hommes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/francois-drolet-1998_1340px-e1550088220404.jpg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["M\u00e9daille d'Or","Nagano 1998","Short track speed skating"],"sport_names":[301],"game_names":["Nagano 1998"],"season_names":["Hiver"],"team_names":["Nagano 1998 Patinage de Vitesse - Courte Piste"],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"https:\/\/www.FACEBOOK.COM\/FDROLET2","social_twitter":"FRANKDROLET","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"1","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/franc3a7ois-drolet.jpg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"Sainte-Foy, Qu\u00e9bec","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"July 16, 1973","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195505,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/18658\/revisions\/195505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=18658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}