Mathieu van der Poel was taken into police custody on the eve of Sunday’s elite men’s road race at the UCI Road World Championships according to a report in Sporza , who spoke to the rider before the Helensburgh start.
“It’s true, yes,” Van der Poel said in the Sporza report. “There was a small dispute. It was about noisy neighbors and they are quite strict here.”
“I wasn’t back in my room until 4 o’clock. That’s certainly not ideal. It’s a disaster, but I can’t change anything anymore. I’m trying to make the best of it.”
Cyclingnews has reached out to the Dutch team for comment.
Van der Poel enters the 266.9km men’s elite race firmly among the list of favourites, as while there is nearly 4000m of climbing the centrepiece of the focal point of the race, the 12 corner heavy city circuits radiating out from Wollongong, is the short but punchy climb of Mount Pleasant.
“It is on little sleep that I will race, hopefully on adrenaline,” Van der Poel told Sporza. “It was certainly not fun. It is what it is, I have to deal with it.”
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