A person has handed himself in to Belgian police after a water bottle was thrown at Mathieu van der Poel’s face throughout Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix race.
The Dutchman was struck whereas main with 23 miles to go as he raced alongside a slender cobbled observe lined with spectators.
The person handed himself in to a West Flanders police station on Monday.
Van der Poel, who went on to win the race for a record-equalling third time in a row, later described it as like “getting hit by a stone”.
Talking after the race he added: “The bottle was almost full and weighed half a kilo and when somebody throws it like that it isn’t nothing.”
Public prosecutor Filiep Jodts informed BBC Sport on Monday: “We will verify that the person offered himself to the police.
“An official report was drawn up, during which his assertion was recorded. The Public Prosecution Service will resolve within the coming days what motion ought to be taken.”
Van der Poel shrugged off the incident to win the Monument – one of many sport’s large 5 one-day races – by over a minute from his nice rival Tadej Pogacar, the reigning Tour de France champion.
The 30-year-old Dutchman, who now has eight Monument wins, the identical as Pogacar, has been concerned in a number of incidents involving spectators in recent times.
In December 2023, he spat at some spectators throughout a cyclocross race within the Netherlands, saying he had had sufficient of being booed and having liquid thrown at him.
The next April he had beer thrown at him through the Tour of Flanders, whereas in March of this 12 months he was spat at through the E3 Saxo Traditional in Belgium.
“One thing ought to be carried out about it,” he added on Sunday. “Individuals spitting and throwing issues, it is an excessive amount of and I will ask for motion to be taken.”
Paris-Roubaix’s route runs via the north of France and is estimated to attract about 500,000 spectators to look at on the facet of the highway.
This 12 months’s version was 259.2km (161 miles) lengthy, with about one fifth of it going down on cobbled roads and tracks.
