The cyclist was stopped on the eve of the race after an altercation at night with two young girls in the hotel
The Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel was arrested (and later released) on the eve of the elite road race ai world championships underway in Australia, after a nightly altercation. The police reported it. Van der Poel He was released on bail and is due to appear before a Sydney judge on Tuesday. New South Wales police confirmed that there was an altercation in a Sydney hotel and that a 27-year-old man was charged with assaulting two girls, but did not reveal their names. At around 10.40pm on Saturday, a man was in a hotel … when he was allegedly involved in a verbal altercation with two teenage girls, ages 13 and 14, police told AFP. It is also assumed that the man pushed both teenagers, one fell to the ground and the other was pushed against a wall causing a mild bruise on her elbow. Police were called by the hotel management and arrested a 27-year-old man shortly thereafter. was taken to the police station in Kogarah (in Sydney) and accused of two common assaults, police added in their statement.
According to an initial reconstruction of the facts, it was learned that the girls had knocked several times on the door of van der Poel’s room because they wanted to enter. The cyclist, who was sleeping, eventually got up and treated the two teenagers badly, provoking first the intervention of the hotel staff and then that of the police.
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The 27-year-old was van der Poel was among the favorites for the rainbow jersey and started the 266.9km slog around the coastal town of Wollongong, south of Sydney, but withdrew after only 30 kilometers. true, yes – said van der Poel to the Belgian broadcaster Sporza -. There was a little dispute with noisy neighbors and they are quite strict here.
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September 25, 2022 (change September 25, 2022 | 07:34)
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