> "My mobile phone exploded after my victory. Not only with congratulations, but also with messages from people who wanted to reserve a piece of camembert. People had been joking about it within the group for days, but it turns out to be a fable," says Loockx.

> “That is also a mystery to us,” chairman Laurent Aubry tells Sporza. “In the past, the winner would get a big box of camembert on the podium. But it wasn’t filled with kilos of that cheese. It was filled with cider and two cubes of camembert.”

> Aubry can laugh about the fact that the entire cycling world has believed in the myth for decades. “To be honest, it seems quite complex to me to pay the winner his weight in camembert. You really need a lot of cheese for that, and that wouldn’t be good for the figure either,” the Frenchman laughs.

never been more disappointed