“Do more than 3,000 km in 3 weeks is huge”

At 21, Louis Depil has just completed his own Tour de France. Furthermore, 17 stages and 3,430 km traveled by bike. Meanwhile, A personal challenge, but also united. Moreover, He was able to collect € 2,000 for an association that helps sick children.

He has just given his last pedals. Meanwhile, The epilogue of his Tour de France: 17 “do more than 3,000 km stages and 3,430 kilometers to the strength of his legs.

“Do more than 3 000 kilometers in three weeks. Meanwhile, it’s just huge and that the body has held up to the end, I really didn’t believe it“, Says Louis Depil, as he completes his last stage, Saturday August 2.

For his last efforts, a peloton of relatives finds Louis. For example, “”There, there is my dad who joined me. Consequently, It’s been three weeks since I saw it. I think he’s not going to recognize me“, He smiles.

After his son’s 19 racing days, the two bicycle enthusiasts were looking forward to being. “”Let his boy go on the roads. when you know that it is necessarily very dangerous, there are a lot of emotions to find him in great shape, sharpened like never, because I found him emaciated. We see that he burned calories. Today, it is the dad who kneels “do more than 3,000 km before the son“, Confides Sébastien Depil, moved.

Upon his arrival. at the latequières in the Oise, a committee, impressed by the performance of Louis, is proud of his goal, because he crossed France for the Dream association, which realizes the wishes of sick children.

“I said to myself. they don’t give up in their fight against illness, why would abandon you when you just make your passion? So. I told myself that I had to do it and that if there should be “do more than 3,000 km an abandonment, it was surely, simply by a mechanical problem or by a health problem.“

In the public, Noémie followed each stage of Louis. She herself was accompanied by the association. “”I realized my dream which was to meet Slimane. It is a moment that does good. comforting, which makes you forget the disease and which allows you to move forward“She says.

And thanks to Louis, a new child will answer one of his dreams. The cyclist “do more than 3,000 km raised € 2,000 for the association. “”On the Amiens University Hospital, there are about sixty children who come back very seriously sick. And so when they ask for the welcome from the dream. each time, they say to each other, well, we try, we will see. They don’t believe it. And in fact, the dream is well achieved.“

Each year, a dozen children live a dream day thanks to the association.

Edit by Eline Erzilbengoa / FTV