{"id":13214,"date":"2025-04-15T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mathieu-van-der-poel-person-who-spat-on-dutch-cyclist-in-e3-saxo-bank-classic-fined\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:40:56","slug":"mathieu-van-der-poel-person-who-spat-on-dutch-cyclist-in-e3-saxo-bank-classic-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mathieu-van-der-poel-person-who-spat-on-dutch-cyclist-in-e3-saxo-bank-classic-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu van der Poel: Person who spat on Dutch cyclist in E3 Saxo Bank Classic fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a separate incident, Alpecin-Deceuninck rider Van der Poel was struck by a water bottle while also in the lead alone at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, before going on to win the race for a record-equalling third time in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man handed himself in to a West Flanders police station on Monday and the public prosecutor is deciding what action to take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van der Poel, 30, has been involved in several incidents involving spectators in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December 2023, he spat at some spectators during a cyclocross race in the Netherlands, saying he had had enough of being booed and having liquid thrown at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following April, he had beer thrown at him during the Tour of Flanders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/ckg2leenn0ro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a separate incident, Alpecin-Deceuninck rider Van der Poel was struck by a water bottle while also in the lead alone at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, before going on to win the race for a record-equalling third time in a row. A man handed himself in to a West Flanders police station on Monday and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}