Houle dedicated the success of the Tour to his brother who died after being hit by a drunk driver

Many children fall in love with cycling thanks to Tour de France, regardless of their country of origin, no matter how far they are from the roads in France and no matter how much time difference they experience in their country of origin. It’s part of the magic, the charm, the power of flirting ‘Big Loop’. Two of these children who spread their love of the noble sport of cycling are the Houle brothers, Hugo and Pierrick.

Both he recalls being published by ‘Peloton’ magazine and recalls the ‘Eurosport’ website, getting up every morning with their Canada native to enjoy the stages of the Tour de France, and the passion they lived through the screen was such that both began to practice triathlon together, although Hugo would become a professional cyclist.

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Hugo debuted in 2011 in the ranks of Spidertech Powered by C10 and two years later he signed for AG2R, making the jump on the Word Tour, the highest category in cycling, then go through Astana and in its present formation, the Israel-Premier Roof, With whom he has a contract until 2024. In his last year before joining the elite of world cycling, Hugo received news that paralyzed his heart, which cooled his soul. A drunk driver ran over his younger brother Pierrick, cause of his death, and the murderer runs.

This is his second appearance in Twe are from France, and it was clear to him that he would seek to get into a good breakaway and fight for the victory he wanted to dedicate to his brother. He has commented on this in the past few stages, until this Tuesday was the strongest on a merit break to achieve an emotional victory, so far he has only achieved two victories in Canada.

He crossed the finish line Foix between tears, looking at the sky and offering victory to his bad brother. “This success is for my brother,” he said. angal on camera while kissing the cross on his pendant before embracing his countryman Michael Woods and included in Israel.