World Cup favorite Mathieu van der Poel was arrested before the joint start – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcast schedule

– There is a crisis for him and his career, says TV 2’s cycling expert Mads Kaggestad to his own employer. The night’s World Cup joint start was anything but the Dutch rise many had predicted, when the team’s superstar had to recharge at the police station and ended up breaking the race early. According to the news agency AP, it all started when the 27-year-old was disturbed in the hotel room by some local teenage girls. Van der Poel is said to have been annoyed that he did not get rest the night before one of the most important competitions of his career, and after repeated knocking on the cycling star’s door, a situation is said to have arisen which caused the police to be called. – A disaster The protagonist confirms the episode to the Belgian newspaper Sporza. CHANCELESS: Mathieu van der Poel. Photo: Rick Rycroft / AP – I wasn’t back in my room until 4 o’clock. It’s a disaster, but I can’t do anything about it. I’m trying to make the best of it, he said before the World Cup joint start. He acknowledges that he did not politely ask the teenagers to stop. – I didn’t ask them very nicely to stop. Then the police were called, and I was caught, he explained. He then started the ongoing ride, but ended up breaking after just three miles. – It is a completely absurd situation and one less attraction for the cycle race. One of the big favorites is out, Kaggestad says live. Accused of pushing Nyhetsbyret AP writes that the local police have confirmed that a 27-year-old man was arrested after an incident with two teenage girls in a hotel, and that it is supposed to be a case of pushing which led to one of the girls getting a small injury to her elbow . This is rejected by manager Cristoph Roodhost in Van der Poel’s team to TV 2: – He didn’t do anything physical to the youngsters, says Roodhost. The manager further says that the cycling star’s passport has been revoked for six weeks, and that they will report to the police station over the weekend. – He was very disappointed. He didn’t sleep all night and he suffered a mental breakdown. He has been working hard for the last two months and was looking forward to having a good run today.



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