Paris 2024 Paralympics | They will give us chills: Dorian Foulon

25 days to go before the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics! Everyday, let's discover a para athlete who will bring lots of emotions to the public during the competition. For this first portrait, let's go to Para cycling and one of the best ahtletes of his generation: Dorian Foulon.

At the age of 26, he already has one of the most impressive track records in French Para cycling: multiple world champion and Paralympic gold medallist, Dorian will be one of the driving forces behind the French team this summer!

Born on 2 May 1998 in Morbihan, Brittany, with a deformity in his left foot (a club foot that deprives him of 50% of his power compared to his right leg), the little boy soon gave up playing football and tennis. But his mother was a cyclist, and it was on a bicycle that he found his happiness, learning at an early age to push his limits far beyond what his close ones thought he could achieve.

Hard work, the key to success

Training very quickly became a passion, and the first competitions followed, as did the first successes. But Dorian was just as quick to realise that hard work was the only way to improve and reach the levels and goals he had set for himself. And he continues to raise his expectations...

First come world championships, at age just 20, in Italy in 2018, then his first medals, two years later in Canada, and then Paralympic gold in the individual pursuit on the track of Tokyo in 2021.

Today, on the track and on the road, he has already beaten the best, and knows the price of victory: hard work, humility and passion. He also knows the extent to which the best athlete is nothing without family and friends that protect, preserve and motivate him. And he knows how to prick his pride.

In Paris, at home, in front of his family and friends, he is about to compete in the race of his life, the game of his dreams.