{"id":187780,"date":"2025-10-03T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:55:08","slug":"social-media-star-fontenoy-breaks-world-record-cycling-up-eiffel-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187780\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media star Fontenoy breaks world record cycling up Eiffel Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">PARIS &#8211; Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France&#8217;s Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument&#8217;s operator said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fontenoy on Thursday climbed 686 steps of the monument to reach the second-floor platform, the last accessible by stairs, in 12 minutes and 30 seconds, the Societe d&#8217;Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He broke the previous record by almost seven minutes. In order to claim the title, Fontenoy&#8217;s feet were not allowed to touch the ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I did not expect to take this little time,&#8221; Fontenoy said after the feat. The Eiffel Tower &#8220;is really a symbol, it is really the monument that I wanted to climb,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">As part of his project &#8220;The Climb&#8221;, Fontenoy cycled in 2021 to the top of the 140-metre high Trinity Tower, also in Paris, and this year he climbed Tallinn&#8217;s TV Tower in Estonia. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS &#8211; Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-187780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}