Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread

[Pantani_lives]

Absurd incident that could have been avoided. MvdP will have to appear in court on Tuesday. Road championships are cursed for him. He clearly had the punch, but it came half a day too early. This situation isn't Pleasant.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Anger Management class

 

[Sciatic]

Absurd incident that could have been avoided. MvdP will have to appear in court on Tuesday. Road championships are cursed for him. He clearly had the punch, but it came half a day too early. This situation isn't Pleasant.

Nicely done

 

[Sciatic]

Ugh camerawork

Ed. Wrong thread!

 

[RedheadDane]

Ugh camerawork

Ed. Wrong thread!

You're right, though. The camera work for showing VDP has been absolutely atrocious.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Where the knock and runners little belgians?

 

[Cookster15]

Urgh. I hope those girls are properly investigated but we can’t excuse retaliation. He is a professional on the eve of maybe the most important race of his career to date and to throw it away like that is hard to fathom. I for one was looking forward to seeing what he could do.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Missing your big target after stupidly getting into an altercation in an hotel? Nacer Bouhanni says hi.

 

[Red Rick]

Ive often called him a moron but he has really exceeded my expectations

 

[Red Rick]

Apparently he has to appear in court on Tuesday.

This might be the inverse Djokovic. Wants to leave, has to stay

 

[sir fly]

As I've already mentioned in the WC thread, it's fishy in many ways.
What kind of accommodation it is where guests and visitors can behave like that?
Why did he have to deal with it by himself... where was the hotel staff, team personnel...?

 

[Monte Serra]

Van der Poel is an adult. Is the team staff supposed to babysit him, so he doesn't behave badly? He doesn't really appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. Any sensible person would have called the hotel staff to complain. He decided to take action himself, which also means that he himself should face the consequences. Shedding the blame on the team or hotel, is in my opinion not warranted.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

christ, the olympic crash really has set off a series of unfortunate events hasn't it?
missing cyclocross season
stop start road season, bad tdf
the australia incident

(exept from winning flanders, and that's a big 'exemption')

 

[Didinho]

Still f*cking sad about this
Hopefully next year will be his again

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Absurd incident that could have been avoided. MvdP will have to appear in court on Tuesday. Road championships are cursed for him. He clearly had the punch, but it came half a day too early. This situation isn't Pleasant.

Haha, too good! Unfortunate circumstances but also no too smart move by MVP.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Do you think you come here and throw a few jabs at our kids mate!

 

[meat puppet]

Ive often called him a moron but he has really exceeded my expectations

That is probably not specific enough as acting out on a sense of entitlement seems to be the offence here. Given that he descends from cycling aristocracy, perhaps the proper moniker in our context would be upper class twit of the year.

Real facepalm stuff.

 

[dazaau]

That is probably not specific enough as acting out on a sense of entitlement seems to be the offence here. Given that he descends from cycling aristocracy, perhaps the proper moniker in our context would be upper class twit of the year.

Real facepalm stuff.

"I went to bed early and many children in the hallway of my room found it necessary to knock on the door continuously. After a few times I was done with it. I didn't ask so nicely to stop. Then the police were called and I was taken," Van der Poel explained to Sporza. It was also reported that Van der Poel told his team manager that he did not touch the teenagers.

If he didn't actually touch them, which no one has confirmed is MvdP's story, then he really is a victim here. But we will see what comes out over the next few days, which may or may not clear anything up.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

"I went to bed early and many children in the hallway of my room found it necessary to knock on the door continuously. After a few times I was done with it. I didn't ask so nicely to stop. Then the police were called and I was taken," Van der Poel explained to Sporza. It was also reported that Van der Poel told his team manager that he did not touch the teenagers.

If he didn't actually touch them, which no one has confirmed is MvdP's story, then he really is a victim here. But we will see what comes out over the next few days, which may or may not clear anything up.

If he hadn't touched them then why one of them had some bruise? Telekinesis is MVP's strong side, it seems. I think he did at least push one of them but such things can happen to people, especially those with impulsive nature: the man was stressed due to the incoming WC race, they didn't let him get a proper sleep and he exploded. He made a mistake but I wouldn't be too harsh on him.

 

[Riek s]

"I went to bed early and many children in the hallway of my room found it necessary to knock on the door continuously. After a few times I was done with it. I didn't ask so nicely to stop. Then the police were called and I was taken," Van der Poel explained to Sporza. It was also reported that Van der Poel told his team manager that he did not touch the teenagers.

If he didn't actually touch them, which no one has confirmed is MvdP's story, then he really is a victim here. But we will see what comes out over the next few days, which may or may not clear anything up.

He can try to sue them for harassement and damages if he asked them to stop on the earlier knocks. (Not sure if that is the case from the story though..)

But agree with others, something is fishy... (besides seemingly the spoiled brats) that there are no others in the hall complaining? that the staff didn't do something? (or were they never informed).

But unless he beaten those girls, i don't understand those parents complaining when their kids are pushed when they throw a tandrum...

 

[dazaau]

If he hadn't touched them then why one of them had some bruise? Telekinesis is MVP's strong side, it seems. I think he did at least push one of them but such things can happen to people, especially those with impulsive nature: the man was stressed due to the incoming WC race, they didn't let him get a proper sleep and he exploded. He made a mistake but I wouldn't be too harsh on him.

He apparently pushed them, one got a graze on the elbow. Hardly a smoking gun to have a graze on ones elbow.

However, the most likely scenario remains that they are telling the truth and he pushed them - but at this point it may be the case that he says he did not. We will have to wait and see

 

[Riek s]

They might as well have fallen when they ran away from a yelling guy...

 

[dazaau]

He can try to sue them for harassement and damages if he asked them to stop on the earlier knocks. (Not sure if that is the case from the story though..)

But agree with others, something is fishy... (besides seemingly the spoiled brats) that there are no others in the hall complaining? that the staff didn't do something? (or were they never informed).

But unless he beaten those girls, i don't understand those parents complaining when their kids are pushed when they throw a tandrum...

Good luck suing minors, you'd have to go after their parents and prove they had reason to believe they're children were harassing a pro cyclist on the eve of his world championship and failed to stop them. Good luck with that I reckon :/

He is already pretty screwed by virtue of being alone with two minors.

 

[42x16ss]

Ive often called him a moron but he has really exceeded my expectations

We don't know the entire story, hopefully it comes out on Tuesday.

The Dutch federation needs to take a leaf out of the Belgian's book and book out an entire hotel for their whole federation next time

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

My first thought on the MvDP incident was: that cannot be true - now, within few weeks, the two „Mr nice guy(s)“ Primoz and Mathieu both had a scandal for the first time.

Primoz crashes full speed into Fred Wright and declares Wright guilty (and declares riders like Wright the evil of cycling), and Mathieu goes angry at even female kids…

I think in both incidents nothing happened that couldn‘t be repaired in future.

I hope for a handshake of Primoz and Wright in the next race they both ride. And I hope for a happy end between Mathieu and the noisy girls - so Mathieu will soon be able to count the girls and their parents to his closest and most enthusiastic supporters/fans…