What ever happened to Canadian moguls legend Jean-Luc Brassard?

Reigning Olympic champion Alexandre Bilodeau draws all the moguls-related attention in Canada today, but that role was once filled by a name fans of the Winter Games in the Great White North will remember fondly: Jean-Luc Brassard.

Brassard competed at the first Winter Games to award medals in freestyle skiing events*, the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, finishing seventh in the competition.

Brassard then propelled himself to a memorable gold medal in moguls at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. He's the last Canadian to stand atop the podium in the event until Bilodeau matched the feat in 2010. 

Brassard helped set the foundation for Canada to become a world leader in moguls, but perhaps his most notable legacy in the sport came in the realm of fashion. Brassard popularized the practice of wearing colored knee pads to give judges a clear view of his knee positioning during his runs. Today, swatches of colored fabric covering knees is commonplace among moguls skiers around the world.

Where's Brassard today? He's currently serving as the Assistant Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic team in Sochi. Outside the Games, he works as a radio commentator and can be heard performing the French narration for the television program "How It's Made." 

*Freestyle skiing, including moguls, was contested in Calgary in 1988, but only as a demonstration sport. No medals were awarded.