The CEO of the La Rochefoucauld Athletic Union (UALR, with 1,800 members), who has been leading the cycling section for 27 years (he is 68 years old), is also in charge of 13 other events. These include the Charente Limousine Tour, the elite prize of Saint-Projet, and the regional cyclo-cross championship in Saint-Angeau.
« One of the top organizers in the region. »
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« And his talents are not only recognized in Charente. Many clubs in the region reach out to him for advice. »
Pour Arthur Bauchaud, directeur sportif du Top 16, « Nanard » reste « LA » référence : « Quand j’ai eu besoin d’organiser le chrono de Douzat, c’est la première personne que j’ai appelée. (sourire) Il est l’un des meilleurs organisateurs de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, si ce n’est plus. »
Bernard Périllaud a monté sa première course à… 14 ans, déjà à Chasseneuil : « J’avais été à la laiterie et j’étais reparti avec 250 camemberts pour les primes des coureurs. Le vainqueur en avait gagné une dizaine ! (rires) »
A passionate obsession that all his friends from the Youth Center had joined, followed by his family. « However, my parents, who came from Rochechouart and Saint-Junien, my two brothers, Gilbert (72 years old) and Dominique (66), as well as my sister, Françoise (70), were not into cycling at all. As a result, I ended up getting all of them onto bicycles! »
Essentiellement pour du « cyclotourisme », quand leur leader prenait son pied en 2e ou 3e« I cannot reword »
Why this nickname « Gros bidou »? « We end every meal at UALR with the song ‘Tomber la chemise’, and Nanard really takes it off. »
He was born there. But the municipality of his entire life, during his two terms as a municipal councilor (from 1989 to 2001), is Chasseneuil. « If I didn’t sign there at the time, it’s because the club, which organized races, didn’t accept runners. And since I had connections with members of the UALR… »
Due to a major fall, the person who worked as a printer from the age of 16 to 60 at Mediaprint, still in the municipality of Chasseneuil, stopped « competing in his thirties » before getting even more involved in the Rupificaldien club. He eventually became the president in 1986, taking over from his predecessor André Lacaux.
Bernard Périllaud immediately establishes a cycling school that quickly becomes a benchmark.
Ambianceur au grand cœur
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Why is the nickname « Gros bidou »? « We end every meal at UALR with the song ‘Tomber la chemise’ and Nanard really takes it off. (laughs) »
A tradition that originated at the « Rouzède World Championship, » a humorous race organized by the club for many years.
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Bernard and Maryline Périllaud go as far as providing accommodation and meals to certain Top 16 runners. « There is no question of them paying for the hotel for nearby races, » warns Madame. « And if we are absent, they have a spare set of keys. »
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Son papi et sa mamie d’adoption ont aussi vécu une terrible tragédie en perdant leur fils aîné David (frère de Xavier, 47 ans), à 40 ans, en mars 2015.
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Gilles Cottinet, président du club de La Couronne, le Coc cyclisme, tient à signaler, ému : « J’ai perdu mon fils avant eux et ils avaient été d’un grand soutien. »
Papi au grand cœur, donc, Bernard Périllaud est aussi celui du vélo charentais en tant que vice-président des comités départemental et régional. Enfin, « Nanard » est même… arbitre national.
At the age of 22, Léa Ageorges, the secretary of UALR cycling, reassures: « He is already preparing his succession by giving us plenty of advice. »
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48 engagés
Alors que Bernard Périllaud attendait comme chaque année autour de 80 participants, dimanche (13h30) au Mémorial d’Automne, ils ne seront que 48 sur la ligne de départ, devant la mairie de Chasseneuil.
« Unlike usual, this weekend we have the competition of the final round of the French Cup DN2, the Puisaye-Forterre Classic, which is causing us to lose at least twenty participants, » the organizer sighs.
On the Chasseneuil course, which remains unchanged with 13 laps of 10.8 km (totaling 140.4 km) and an elevation gain of 1,313 m, the favorites include Luca De Vincenzi (from l’Occitane Formation), who recently won the GP de la Tomate (National Elite), his teammate Artus Jaladeau, who will turn pro in 2024 (with CIC U Nantes Atlantique), as well as Louis Lapierre and Julien Azile Lozach from Top 16, who are members of UALR.
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