I was never even close to the level of these guys, but when I was doing the NORBA series, and other regional series, flopping in crappy hotel rooms, on couches, or in the back of my Nissan PU, I got into a routine/rhythm of sleeping before races. Yep, you are amped up for tomorrow morning and you are in an unfamiliar bed, but you just get used to it when you do it enough (you get to a point that no bed is familiar, which is its own form of familiar). I did travel with my own pillow though.
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Would you have slept through disturbances? Or just bring ear plugs?
True. I have a 14-year old daughter, and she sure as hell isn't going to be found running around a hotel at night banging on people's doors. Not only horrible behavior, but dangerous as well.
We don’t know if MVDP or GF did call the front desk to complain.
We don’t know if either called the police.
we don’t know if either was called if they were slow to respond.
We don’t know if MVDP or GF asked the teens to stop and if they had to repeatedly ask.
We don’t know if MVDP hit any of them.
We don’t know if they fell running away after being caught and told off by MVDP.
It’s a crappy situation to be put in. If he did call the front desk or police and they weren’t responding, I wonder how many posters that are lambasting him for confronting the teens would have reacted if you were trying to sleep for an extremely important goal of yours that you had one chance of getting.
We don’t know if either called the police.
we don’t know if either was called if they were slow to respond.
We don’t know if MVDP or GF asked the teens to stop and if they had to repeatedly ask.
We don’t know if MVDP hit any of them.
We don’t know if they fell running away after being caught and told off by MVDP.
It’s a crappy situation to be put in. If he did call the front desk or police and they weren’t responding, I wonder how many posters that are lambasting him for confronting the teens would have reacted if you were trying to sleep for an extremely important goal of yours that you had one chance of getting.
Yes, it's a tragedy. Up until then he had a good following going.
Well, he didn't lose me. I'm not that volatile.
Surely he didn't lose Rackham or whatever his name is. If anything that probably increased his esteem of Roglic.
Don’t forget the other one…
Can't even remember his name atm, but yeah, the. guy. that. writes. like. this.
Anyway, almost no matter what he did, he was obviously super pissed and I don't really care
He rode a bad tour de france, but he is a professional athlete and should be able to cope with that. Every rider has a bad period now and then and MVP is no exeption. He had a marvelous carreer until know and he should be able to deal with bad spells. That's part of being a world class athlete. Look at what Evenepoel did the last few years.
That being said, what has happened to him last night is plain ridiculous. The Australians are idiots for what they did. I am not saying they should let him off the hook if he did something wrong but they could have handled it the day after the race.
Arrestatie Mathieu van der Poel niet enige bizarre incident KNWU op WK
Analyse Hoe heeft het zo ver kunnen komen dat de Nederlandse WK-favoriet in de nacht voor de titelstrijd in een politiecel heeft moeten doorbrengen? Het verhaal klinkt zo ongeloofwaardig dat zelfs zijn ploegmaten dachten dat Mathieu van der Poel een grap maakte toen hij hen vlak voor de start...
I would recommend throwing this article in some sort of translator. This is freaking gold.
Somebody call Netflix.Arrestatie Mathieu van der Poel niet enige bizarre incident KNWU op WK
Analyse Hoe heeft het zo ver kunnen komen dat de Nederlandse WK-favoriet in de nacht voor de titelstrijd in een politiecel heeft moeten doorbrengen? Het verhaal klinkt zo ongeloofwaardig dat zelfs zijn ploegmaten dachten dat Mathieu van der Poel een grap maakte toen hij hen vlak voor de start...www.wielerflits.nl
I would recommend throwing this article in some sort of translator. This is freaking gold.
KNWU must have been super unprepared, even the Australian boss of SRAM managed to book a house on the finish line. There are plenty of luxury homes available in the area on Airbnb.
From an Wielerflits article, both rooms adjacent to the one he was sleeping in were occupied by families.
I totally see myself 10 years from now watching a depiction of this case in a 40 minute episode of some Travel Channel tv show.
kids being kids, maybe it just highlights the quality of hotels Ive stayed in sometimes
but its something Ive experienced for sure, getting drunk helps block it out, maybe not such ideal prep for bike race, but so do earplugs (a tip I picked up from an air stewardess friend of mine who also gets to stay in some really weird hotels where the guests can get noisy and reception aint interested)
The earplugs thing I agree. One gotta be crazy entitled to never have needed to wear earplugs in a hotel :Okids being kids, maybe it just highlights the quality of hotels Ive stayed in sometimes
Also I didn't drink at that age, but I did stalking. The libido of a teenage gal ain't no joke. Hence my perspectives.
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Imagine you're a teenage gals with a libido and there's a seriously hot and famous guy at the hotel. Your brain ain't developed, your hormones are raging.
You're too old to be kept by parents and too young to know what you're doing. And out comes this guy with a rage fit. I'd be traumatized for sure.
They should know what they're doing, he should know what he's doing, the team management should have booked a better hotel etc etc etc, but the world aint built up by people that knows what they're doing. And I'd probably mess up myself if I was either of them. Most people probably would.
You're too old to be kept by parents and too young to know what you're doing. And out comes this guy with a rage fit. I'd be traumatized for sure.
They should know what they're doing, he should know what he's doing, the team management should have booked a better hotel etc etc etc, but the world aint built up by people that knows what they're doing. And I'd probably mess up myself if I was either of them. Most people probably would.
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The solution should have been obvious
Van der Poel should have slept in his original room while teammate Jan Maas slept in the same room as MvdPs girlfriend
Van der Poel should have slept in his original room while teammate Jan Maas slept in the same room as MvdPs girlfriend
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