According to local newspaper Illawara Mercury, the 27-year-old will appear in court on Tuesday.

According to Belgian outlet Sporza, van der Poel is said to have been disturbed by commotion in the corridor on Saturday night, and youths are said to have repeatedly knocked on his door.

- After a few times I had enough.

I didn't exactly ask them nicely to stop.

And then the police were called, he said before Sunday's race, according to Cyklingtips, and describes the situation as a minor dispute.

According to the report, the Dutch cyclist came out of his room and a fight broke out in the corridor, where one girl was allegedly knocked over and the other was pushed into the wall.

Police arrested van der Poel and took him to the station in Kogarah, south of Sydney, and he was released only in the early hours of the morning, according to the newspaper, which understands his passport has been seized.

Mathieu van der Poel started Sunday's line race on the outskirts of Wollongong, but later abandoned the race.

- He didn't sleep all night and was also mentally a bit broken, says Christoph Roodhooft, the manager of his team Alpecin-Deceuninck, according to AFP.

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