The man who threw a water bottle at Mathieu van der Poel while he was on his way to victory at Paris-Roubaix last weekend has apologised.
In an letter sent to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, the unidentified man said that he had been "ashamed for days", and that he had apologised to Van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck too. The man had previously handed himself in to police.
