Adrie van der Poel's request to cyclocross fans after Hulst incident: "If you don't have the discipline to stop after two beers, stay home"

Cyclocross
Tuesday, 02 January 2024 at 09:15
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In the past, riders such as Bart Wellens, Richard Groenendaal and Sven Nys have had spats with fans who criticize and boo them throughout races. This Saturday it was Mathieu van der Poel who was involved in one, spitting on a fan who also reportedly threw beer and urine to him. Adrie van der Poel asks that that the audience control their behaviour to prevent such situations.
"It indicates the level of people we are dealing with here. Look, it's simple. If you don't have the discipline to stop after two beers, stay home. And watch the race from the comfort of your own home," the father of Mathieu van der Poel said in an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws. “Personally, I have never been confronted with it. But over the years the phenomenon has apparently reared its head more and more.”
Specially in recent years, the rivalry between Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert sparked more and more sharp opinions from fans. Being the main figures of the Netherlands and Belgium respectively, national interests also rise to the head of some spectators, who quite audibly boo one of the riders - although the Dutchman has been a bigger victim of this. Unfortunately, throwing beer or urine is also not an isolated case in cycling, as some spectators take advantage of the proximity they have with riders.
“When you see how Tom [Pidcock] and Wout [van Aert] continue to fight here after their bad luck... In the same way, they say: Fuck, just look at it. But no, they give the best of themselves. Then you have to respect that, I think," Adrie argues.
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StardustDragon 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 1653

Drunk, rowdy fans and cyclocross seems go well together. Of course, same goes to the fans of NFL too.

ADVD defending his brother's action is as bad as his brother's bad behaviour🤦🏻.

UCI needs to punish that primadone MDVD ASAP!!!

abstractengineer 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 3353

ADVD- Do you mean Adrie, he is the Father of MVDP

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StardustDragon 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 1653

Did that mistake on purpose lol. Both he and his son are arrogant though. Just like Max Verstappen's Dad Jos, if you ask me

Mistermaumau 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 3807

Depending on your background and reference your opinion could be justified, more for the dads and Max, not sure what exactly makes you lump Mathieu in the same category, however, I’m pretty sure that if you’d ask riders and fans in general less than 20% would agree with you and most of those would be Belgian.

If by arrogant you just mean you don’t like him because he doesn’t suit your desire for how people should be, that’s about the same as saying the Dutch are arrogant because they speak their mind or Americans because they speak loud everywhere or the British because the still behave as if they have an empire when abroad or the Germans because they think they are superior abroad, or Italians because they think they’re the only ones who can make pizza or pasta or the Pope towards women or Apple towards their users or Trump towards everyone or, in fact you’d be hard done by finding anyone that could not be considered arrogant.

Is it not arrogant to judge someone as arrogant that you’ve never even met and have only noticed selected snippets of, probably selectively?

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santiagobenites 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 1867

That would be 1/2 of the fans staying home then 🤣😂

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StardustDragon 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 1653

Ironically it is😅

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ScottG 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 927

Drunk fans and cyclocross seem to go together. Of course the same goes for American football too.

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StardustDragon 05 June 2024 at 09:31+ 1653

#Word!

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