New footage revealed showing Mathieu van der Poel's bike being hit by hat from spectator at Paris-Roubaix
CyclingSunday, 14 April 2024 at 13:22
Mathieu van der Poel won Paris-Roubaix, but in a race that lacked much tension and intrigue, the highlight ended up being a spectator throwing a hat at the World Champion's wheels. New footage revealed now shows the incident from another angle which is rather incriminating for the spectator.
Het Laatste Nieuws got a hold of a video taken by a spectator in the opposite side of the road, in the opposite angle to that which the TV broadcast showed. Not only does it show the spectator clearly throwing a hat into van der Poel's wheels (and hitting one, but without consequence), but also the aftermath in which no-one around her confronted her.
Whilst van der Poel was unaffected by the incident it did not go unnoticed, whilst French authorities have identified the woman and is in contact. Most likely a fine is coming at the very least, as a consequence of attempting to harm the athlete but also to set the tone in order to prevent future incidents such as this to keep taking place.
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I laughed at the english translation on the Dutch HLN site where the video came from. The woman who threw the cap said it was "an unfortunate maneuver after an afternoon of aperitifs along the cobblestones"
What the 😡💢🤬🤬
It isn’t surprising no-one confronted her, firstly, she tried to be relatively discreet with her underhand backhand badminton flip, secondly unless you are actively looking for (and knowing where to look) this kind of thing, it is unlikely you’ll spot anything not in your face.
In principle, 99% of spectators have waited hours to look at something else at that precise moment and without video to review how something occurred, it would be extremely difficult to know what happened, let alone have any chance of identifying someone.
This was not a bunch of lager louts happy to get attention and probably already having attracted it before they committed offenses so likely to have a few people watching them in advance.
Disgraceful!