A cycling star sensationally withdrew from a world championship road race on Sunday after being charged with assaulting two teenage girls. Mathieu van der Poel, 27, will face court after he was arrested and charged just hours before the race, where he was one of the title favourites for the 2022 UCI Road World Championships - a 266.9km race being held in Wollongong, south of .Police allege the athlete physically confronted the 13 and 14-year-old girls at the Novotel in Le Sands on Saturday evening because they were playing a knock-and-run prank on his door while he was trying to get some sleep before the race.
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