Giulio Zardo

Career

Canadian Junior Football League Zardo started out as an athlete playing football in the Canadian Junior Football League with the St-Leonard Cougars.

Zardo graduated from Champlain Regional College in late 2000 and went on to attend Concordia University with a scholarship, studying leisure sciences. He was named the CEGEP AAA Defensive Player of the Year in 2000. He aimed to become a professional football player, but this fell through; he was selected twice to play for American college football teams (the University of Colorado and the University of New Hampshire), but both times it fell through due to academic issues. He teamed with Morin as his breakman, before replacing pilot bobsledder Pierre Lueders's brakeman, Hugo Lebire, after he was injured. and ninth in the four-man event. Zardo and Lueders won silver in the two-man event of the FIBT World Championships in 2003. The pair won gold in the World Championships in the two-man event in 2004.

Following an abdominal injury, Zardo was taken off the team for a brief time. He was replaced by Lascelles Brown. He claimed that his coach, Gerd Gemme, forced him to keep training despite his injury. Zardo was suspended in December 2004 after getting into a physical altercation with his Grimme after he learned he was not chosen for the Olympic team. He was allowed to return to the team under certain conditions after complaints from the other athletes. Following his announced retirement from the sport, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport tried to test him again, which he refused. Following the Tyee exposé, he attempted to publicly intimidate the journalist that wrote it, Rachel Gilmore.