{"id":264542,"date":"2025-11-06T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264542\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:35:10","slug":"meet-the-frenchman-tending-to-hong-kongs-marine-life-and-cycling-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264542\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Frenchman tending to Hong Kong\u2019s marine life and cycling ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Along with his immersive mission to usher in a new era of cycling success for Hong Kong, Herve Dagorne has been playing a small part in sustaining the abundance of marine life that inhabits the city\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A two-time Olympian, Dagorne\u2019s life has been inextricably linked with cycling since he watched on television as Alain Bondue, the idol who would become his close friend, claimed individual pursuit silver at the 1980 Moscow Games.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the Frenchman\u2019s enduring love for being on two wheels is rivalled by a passion for scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019ve only been three or four times in the past six months, but every time it was to carry out reef checks, then report back to the government,\u201d said Dagorne, who is a member of Living Seas Hong Kong, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to local marine protection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the Hong Kong squad in Roubaix\u2019s Velodrome Andre-Petrieux last year. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/508d45e5-58e9-4646-a3b4-4b43ebc996cc_c755cd87.jpg\" title=\"Members of the Hong Kong squad in Roubaix\u2019s Velodrome Andre-Petrieux last year. Photo: Handout\"\/>Members of the Hong Kong squad in Roubaix\u2019s Velodrome Andre-Petrieux last year. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAround 25 per cent of the marine life off China\u2019s coast is concentrated in Hong Kong. It is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along with his immersive mission to usher in a new era of cycling success for Hong Kong, Herve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[122165,1205,12268,122164,49,48,95,122159,122160,635,122162,637,122157,122156,93519,15674,122154,122155,17517,122161,122163,54701,16061,4963,13782,82,122158],"class_list":{"0":"post-264542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-alain-bondue","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-berlin","11":"tag-brittany","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-china-cycling","16":"tag-china-games","17":"tag-cycling","18":"tag-florian-rousseau","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-french-cycling","21":"tag-french-cyclist","22":"tag-herve-dagorne","23":"tag-hong-kong","24":"tag-hong-kong-cycling","25":"tag-hong-kong-cyclist","26":"tag-kazakhstan","27":"tag-living-seas-hong-kong","28":"tag-moscow-games","29":"tag-national-games","30":"tag-olympic-games","31":"tag-olympics","32":"tag-paris","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-vuelta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}