Chasing the Burn · Chasing the Burn Triathlon

Cassandre Beaugrand

February 18, 2026·1 hr 4 min·4 clips

Chelsea interviews Cassandre Beaugrand ('Cass'), the French triathlete who became Olympic champion at the Paris 2024 Games and world champion the same year. The conversation explores the paradox at the heart of Cass's Paris win: she did not believe she could win, was physically sick on the start line, had her worst ever warm-up, and experienced a near-dissociative state during the race — yet won. The episode then tracks the difficult aftermath: the media grind that replaced her off-season, a crash at Yokohama in 2025, the strange pressure that came only after winning, and a running low where victories felt hollow while defeats cut deep. Cass is candid about stubbornness, a difficult relationship with her father-coach, sports psychologists she found limited value in, and why she has not yet retired despite having achieved triathlon's ultimate prize.

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A clear look at what comes after the win.

The episode follows the Olympic champion from Paris at the point where winning stops being the whole story. It moves from the noise of the home crowd and the fact that she also became world champion in the same year to the tougher question of 2025: how to come back down, keep…

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You want to hear how a champion handles the noise after gold.

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