Cadel Evans is “busy babysitting” after adopting a one year old boy from Ethiopia
Australian professional cyclist Cadel Evans and his wife, Chiara Passerini, have adopted an Ethiopian boy and will travel back home to Switzerland soon.
Evans’ wife, Chiara Passerini, mentioned that visiting Ethiopia was her ultimate dream. She briefed, "Going to Ethiopia was our reason for the early departure from Australia. We came here to bring home our little 12-month-old boy after months of paperwork”.
The 2011Tour de France winner and his Italian wife were giving hints through twitter but the news has now being confirmed that they will travel back with the boy.
The 34-year-old has participated in a total number of 12 grand tours, including two Giro d’ Italia, seven Tour de France and three Vuelta a Espana appearances throughout his career.
His last best performance was a second place finish at the Tour de France 2007 and 2008.
The cyclist finally managed to achieve his dream of winning the French Grand Tour in 2011 as he defeated the Luxembourg cyclist Andy Schleck with a lead of 1 minute and 34 seconds.
Evans also won stage 4 of the event and held the mountains jersey for two stages, stage 4 and stage 5.
His other notable accomplishments include the overall success at the 2010 Giro d’ Italia points classification, along with the stage wins at the Tour of Austria, Tour of Romandie, Tirreno-Adriatico and World Road Race Championships 2009.
Evans proposed to his wife, Chiara Passerini, in 2005, after knowing each other for a period of three years. The couple decided to expand their family through adoption.
Passerini shared, "We always felt the strong wish to adopt, so we decided to start our family through adoption. It certainly wasn't an easy process, but we're very happy to bring our little man home with us in the next few weeks, depending on how the final
paperwork goes”.
The Australian is considered to be one of the few cycling humanitarians as he supports the Amy Gillett Foundation and several other charities.
Gillett Foundation was formed in 2005 in the memory of the former Australian cyclist and the rower killed in Germany.
He also supports Ian Thorpe’s Foundation of Youth but it is unknown if the decision to adopt the Ethiopian boy was a result of humanitarian learnings or not.
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