An anecdote about the great Victor Campenaerts.

My good friend and myself have this inside joke about Victor Campenaerts, and I love it so much, and love watching Victor race even more that I wanted to share it. During the tour de france 2 years ago, Victor was in the breakaway of 3 that looked likely to be caught. He had a teammate attempting to make the gap so he dropped back and pulled his teammate to the break with him. He was highly ridiculed for this and on the NBC broadcast, someone in the studio said that it was a stupid decision and "Campenaerts is about as bright as a dark tunnel". We'll Victor's teammate went on to win that stage from the break so jokes on them. ANYWAY ever since then we have referred to Campenaerts lovingly as "The Tunnel". This year the tunnel has gone on to make plenty of crazy attacks and give the audience a good show.

EDIT: went back and looked, this was stage 18 in 2023. Lotto didn't take the win that day, Asgreen of soudal took it. Lotto got second.