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during his pro career, he was one of several riders asked to strip for examination by the soigneur Raymond Le Bert, who normally worked for Louison Bobet. Wadley wrote:

It would be wrong to say that the company laughed when he stood there in his underpants, but there were certainly some smiles because in contrast to his lithe, clean-limbed predecessors at the examination, he looked a short, fat boy.

Le Bert, however, did not smile. Immediately he exclaimed: 'Ah ha, now this is really a rock. He is a real flahute. (French term for old-type tough Flemish roadman.)

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