[1] His fascination with speed skating started serendipitously, while on a roller-skate outing with his brother and father, at a young age of six at the Gujan-Mestras Club.

The simple fun created by ice hockey games organized by the short trackers during Wednesday night, built good feeling with the newfound team and influenced him to join the ice trainings.

For which he described this ordeal as the toughest on his short track career due to his job in a local food chain (McDonald's) while having his intensive Olympic training yet eventually secured a spot in the Vancouver winter games.

His short track career didn't last very long and later switch to long track due to an incident in 2012 wherein the Korean team was almost winning until an accident happened during the passing of an opponent, reminding him of how a random mistake in short track can jeopardize your four years of training and also realized that his "build" is more that of a long tracker.

< Sochi Olympic Athlete data> In October 2017 he participated in Secret Story 11 in France.