They are reporting what he has said. And "throughout the night" is not exactly how I would put it since this happened at 10:40.

I'm not saying there wasn't a lot of noise or that I wouldn't be irritated. But I'm not sure shoving 7th grade girls is ever going to be the right way to handle it.

Why were the girls knocking on his door?

And what's going on over there, 14 year old boys are often enough shitheads, but girls doing this?

I don't know that I can assume anyone was actually knocking on his door as a prank. It sounds more like random noise pissed him off. And his comments don't really seem to be claiming he was at all justified. There is more to this story.

I find it interesting that everyone is assuming these two girls were banging on his door to make him mad and that he just couldn't take it any more and made a last ditch effort to defend his room against the barbarian invaders.

That just doesn't make sense.

???? Did he run out and grab the phone? Heard squeals.

As far as noise goes, today's active noise cancelling headphones are amazing. There can be a party in the next room and barely be able to hear it, especially if you have some light music or white noise playing. I can't imagine any traveler not having a good pair of ANC headphones or earbuds.

So if your kid was shoved by a pro athlete to the point of (allegedly) bleeding, you'd meekly walk away and take it out on your kid?

Point me to the era when teenagers *didn't* go out at night and do freaking obnoxious things. That's what kids have always done, and will always do. What "charges" do you want for a 13 and 14 year old for "knock and run?" That's crazy.

And point me to an era when it was OK for a male pro athlete to (allegedly) touch someone else's teenage girls in anger. He (allegedly) pushed a 13 and 14 y.o. to the ground, with one "grazing" her elbow. You can't do that. I'm nearly 50, and I can't remember any era where it was OK to (allegedly) push little girls to the ground. MdVP might be lucky the wrong Australian parent wasn't there to go after him.

" to the point of altercation"

That's 100% on MdVP. He'd have had plenty of options. Hotel management, large Dutch team staff, police. He lost his cool, unfortunately.

As far as noise goes, today's active noise cancelling headphones are amazing. There can be a party in the next room and barely be able to hear it, especially if you have some light music or white noise playing. I can't imagine any traveler not having a good pair of ANC headphones or earbuds.

I'm wondering if this could have been the case as well. He potential runs after them, possibly tries to grab one if them to keep them from getting away and they fall. Right now it's purely a he-said she-said ordeal.

What I do think is pretty clear is the hotel management did a shit job. You've got a bunch of world class athletes that travel halfway across the world for the world championships and you've got a couple dumbass teenagers running around disturbing them

Yet they won’t block out my wife’s snoring.

Oh boy, shockingly bad judgment on the part of MvdP, who apparently chased the girls into their room (a third sibling was also present)

Otoh, from the same article, these two girls have pulled similar stunts before, and their parents are aware of it.

For 3 hours? Those are two proper little shits. I'd throttle my kids if I found out they were doing that kind of stuff.
He handled it in about the worst possible way, but judging by the parents reactions no wonder they have kids that behave like that.

For 3 hours? .

That never ends well.

It is a sentence you never want to see written about yourself.

No. This is exactly what I would expect Down Under