{"id":346374,"date":"2025-12-15T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:34:11","slug":"frenchman-cycles-18000km-from-hometown-to-china-to-support-other-lyme-disease-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346374\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenchman cycles 18,000km from hometown to China to support other Lyme disease patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A man who cycled 18,000km from his hometown in France to China to realise a Silk Road adventure dream has trended on social media in China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Frenchman Killian Le Guyader, 24, began his journey in the northwestern city of Rennes at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He arrived in China not long ago and a video showing him standing on the Great Wall in Beijing went viral on mainland social media in early December.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Killian Le Guyader rides his fully loaded bicycle. He travelled across more than 30 countries to get to China. Photo: Douyin\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69f62f50-58f4-4c49-818a-6bc7d1c4acc9_2615f947.jpg\" title=\"Killian Le Guyader rides his fully loaded bicycle. He travelled across more than 30 countries to get to China. Photo: Douyin\"\/>Killian Le Guyader rides his fully loaded bicycle. He travelled across more than 30 countries to get to China. Photo: Douyin<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMum, I made it. I rode from France to China, covering 18,000km and crossing more than 30 countries. This is the highlight of my life,\u201d Le Guyader says in the clip.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt is awesome to stand on the Great Wall. What a big success this is for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI want to send this victory to all patients with Lyme disease and chronic illnesses. I have been tortured by Lyme disease for three years and I know how difficult it is to endure the treatment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Le Guyader in a happy mood during one of the many stops on his 18,000 kilometre adventure. Photo: Douyin\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/af1379a3-57e8-4a13-b46f-eb807ac97a05_4104c820.jpg\" title=\"Le Guyader in a happy mood during one of the many stops on his 18,000 kilometre adventure. Photo: Douyin\"\/>Le Guyader in a happy mood during one of the many stops on his 18,000 kilometre adventure. Photo: Douyin<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf I successfully fought against the disease and realised my dream of cycling to China, other people can turn their dream into a reality. Everything is possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who cycled 18,000km from his hometown in France to China to realise a Silk Road adventure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[47256,150967,28227,150965,4345,34653,8580,1163,417,49,48,2769,95,27958,44548,63774,16852,17677,102625,102331,119159,635,8488,37294,8522,3456,150968,145717,97558,637,73149,6378,136935,84,49913,55110,55629,20526,5844,27741,150961,150962,10569,19342,42883,34365,150963,2133,82,45087,49747,150964,4791,150966,3848,4139,2457],"class_list":["post-346374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-adventure","tag-altitude","tag-association","tag-bachelors","tag-bacteria","tag-bank","tag-beijing","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charity","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chronic-illness","tag-clip","tag-council","tag-countries","tag-courage","tag-cure","tag-cycle","tag-cycling","tag-degree","tag-desert","tag-dream","tag-europe","tag-exhausted","tag-expedition","tag-forest","tag-france","tag-french","tag-georgia","tag-great-wall","tag-health","tag-highlight","tag-highway","tag-hometown","tag-journey","tag-literature","tag-lyme-disease","tag-medical-disease","tag-pateients","tag-patients","tag-perseverance","tag-persistence","tag-save","tag-silk-road","tag-sponsored","tag-sports","tag-support","tag-tick","tag-tortured","tag-treatment","tag-trip","tag-turkey","tag-university","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346374","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=346374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}