{"id":1657940,"date":"2022-09-26T07:58:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657940"},"modified":"2022-09-26T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:58:46","slug":"cycling-van-der-poel-convicted-fined-after-pleading-guilty-to-assault-of-teenage-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cycling-van-der-poel-convicted-fined-after-pleading-guilty-to-assault-of-teenage-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling-Van der Poel convicted, fined after pleading guilty to assault of teenage girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcycling-van-der-poel-convicted-fined-after-pleading-guilty-to-assault-of-teenage-girls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Rohith Nair<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013     Mathieu van der Poel pleaded guilty to assault of two teenage girls on the eve of the world championship road race and the Dutch Cyclist was convicted and fined a total of A$1,500 ($974.85), his lawyer said on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The 27-year-old had been charged with two counts of common assault after a confrontation with the girls \u2014 aged 13 and 14 \u2014 who he alleged repeatedly knocked on his door and ran away.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales police said one teenager fell to the ground while the other had a minor graze to her elbow after she was pushed into a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called when hotel management were notified and the girls\u2019 father filed a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went through the relevant events that occurred, he was arrested by police, was interviewed by police and said certain things to the police,\u201d Van der Poel\u2019s lawyer Michael Bowe told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathieu agreed with some of those allegations. On discussing it was agreed he should plead guilty. In Australia, if you plead guilty you can walk away with no conviction\u2026 but it was not the case here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowe confirmed he would be appealing the conviction for two counts of assault. Van der Poel has also been allowed to leave the country after he was handed back his passport.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch cycling federation said they and Van der Poel would not comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France stage winner, who was one of the favourites to win Sunday\u2019s race in the coastal New South Wales city of Wollongong, subsequently dropped out after just 30 of the 267 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian Remco Evenepoel won the world road race title with a solo breakaway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 1.5387 Australian dollars)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/cycling-van-der-poel-convicted\/attachment\/giro-ditalia\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8P0FP-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8P0FP-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rohith Nair (Reuters) \u2013 Mathieu van der Poel pleaded guilty to assault of two teenage girls on the eve of the world championship road race and the Dutch Cyclist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}