A total of 506 kilometers separate the White Tower from the Acropolis. These are the kilometers that OPAP Champion Nikos Papagelis will travel with his bike, from Thessaloniki to Athens, in a period of three days from June 3 to 5, for the voluntary program “Wheels of Will”.
The management of OPAP and the employees of the company wished every success to Nikos Papagelis in view of this demanding route that starts on Friday from Thessaloniki. As OPAP Champion said, discussing the difficulties of the project, “on the first day I estimate to do about 8 hours from Thessaloniki to Larissa, the second about 5 to Lamia and the third almost 7 hours to Athens. The last part of route is the most difficult due to the fact that several points are uphill “.
The purpose of “Wheels of Will” is to raise money to further strengthen the Association of Parents of Children with Neoplastic Disease “The Flame” to fight childhood cancer. Nikos Papaggelis had been confronted with cancer and was forced to amputate his left leg.
The dream of Nikos Papagelis, who has the support of OPAP through the OPAP Champion program, which supports young athletes to achieve their goals, is the “Wheels of Will” to become an institution and he himself every year to travel new paths helping more and more people through sports. “I have thought of other routes that I would like to do in the future, such as in the Peloponnese and Crete”, he confessed to OPAP people.
In this moving effort, Paralympian Nikos Pappangelis will have the support of the people during the difficult journey. At its first stop in Larissa, on June 3, OPAP people will be in the city in order to give him extra motivation, strength, energy and psychological impetus to achieve his great goal. Nikos Pappagelis will spend the night in Larissa and will leave for Lamia on June 4 for his second stop, before reaching his final destination, Athens and the sacred rock of the Acropolis.
As Nikos Papagelis says, “for me, an effort is to overcome yourself and your limits at any moment, regardless of the difficulties that exist” and in this effort, he will again have OPAP as his passenger.
Source: Capital
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