Van der Poel arrested in Oz

[OVERDRIVE]

OK...? 

Van der Poel's arrest will force him to stay in Australia for at least 6 weeks (brujulabike.com)

Mathieu van der Poel at police station night before World Championship road race, abandons | Cycling Weekly

Mathieu van der Poel out of world cycling event after allegedly assaulting teenage girls: Wollongong | Daily Mail Online

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by OVERDRIVE

[W@nted]

That escalated quickly

[DieselnDust]

Australia….a place I don’t want to live

[OVERDRIVE]

8 minutes ago, W@nted said:

That escalated quickly

I'll say! A bit over the top? 

[Danger Dassie]

Not ok. We also don’t know the actual specifics of the incident.

Will say that many people’s reactions are pretty disturbing towards the minors. How many of us played silly pranks as kids, beyond ‘tok tokkie’ .

But if the police are called by hotel staff after an incident and an accusation concerning minors, they have to act. Doesn’t matter who the person is or the event.

A grown man having an altercation with two girls 12-14. Rather just phone the hotel reception or your team management. 

[bikebloke]

in many parts of this new world telling someone to ****Off is now " assualt" cause they felt "threatened" 

Oz is one of these new places 

he should have 'Rather just phone the hotel reception or your team management. '

Edited September 25, 2022 by bikebloke

[Kaktus007]

Man that sucks for him such a small incident causing him to be arrested and missing world champs!

From the articles it seems that there were no physical assault or something like that so getting arrested seems quit extreme 

[Trashy]

12 minutes ago, Kaktus007 said:

Man that sucks for him such a small incident causing him to be arrested and missing world champs!

From the articles it seems that there were no physical assault or something like that so getting arrested seems quit extreme 

The article states that they were shoved into the wall and one onto the ground.

He is a grown man, he should have more self-control than two teenage girls.

[DieselnDust]

34 minutes ago, Trashy said:

The article states that they were shoved into the wall and one onto the ground.

He is a grown man, he should have more self-control than two teenage girls.

Alleged….

he denies any shoving.

security footage will clear things up but with charges laid it’s going to go to court so he’ll have to stick around till it’s done so that could be 2months

 

[100Tours]

37 minutes ago, Trashy said:

The article states that they were shoved into the wall and one onto the ground.

He is a grown man, he should have more self-control than two teenage girls.

he has denied touching them.. let's see.

But I feel really sorry for him - the night before a race like that you're going to be feeling pretty stressed about being woken up again and again.

[DieselnDust]

18 minutes ago, 100Tours said:

he has denied touching them.. let's see.

But I feel really sorry for him - the night before a race like that you're going to be feeling pretty stressed about being woken up again and again.

It’s pretty inconsiderate of kids to be playing tok Tolkie in a hotel knocking on strangers doors. Speaks to poor parenting

[ChrisF]

15 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

It’s pretty inconsiderate of kids to be playing tok Tolkie in a hotel knocking on strangers doors. Speaks to poor parenting

 

The hotel must have known there were pro athletes ...

 

How do they allow this type of disruption ??

[MORNE]

39 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

It’s pretty inconsiderate of kids to be playing tok Tolkie in a hotel knocking on strangers doors. Speaks to poor parenting

…most of us here are from a time when if you did this, and you went to your parents to tell them a man stripped his moer because YOU were knocking on his door the whole night -  you’d get ‘sorted out’ a second time in front of said man - and then have to apologise too for being a little dwis because you embarrassed your parents.😅

[BaGearA]

4 minutes ago, MORNE said:

…most of us here are from a time when if you did this, and you went to your parents to tell them a man stripped his moer because YOU were knocking on his door the whole night -  you’d get ‘sorted out’ a second time in front of said man - and then have to apologise too for being a little dwis because you embarrassed your parents.😅

I'm probably the youngest member on here who had that exact shite happen to me ..

[ChrisF]

2 minutes ago, MORNE said:

…most of us here are from a time when if you did this, and you went to your parents to tell them a man stripped his moer because YOU were knocking on his door the whole night -  you’d get ‘sorted out’ a second time in front of said man - and then have to apologise too for being a little dwis because you embarrassed your parents.😅

 

Getting caught, and getting a hiding was part of it .... 

[Danger Dassie]

1 hour ago, DieselnDust said:

It’s pretty inconsiderate of kids to be playing tok Tolkie in a hotel knocking on strangers doors. Speaks to poor parenting

It speaks to kids being kids, not poor parenting. 

We don’t know what actually happened.