Austrian suffers f✃ractured knee,🔜 will be out for months
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Marco Haller making his way back onto the road after a crash𒀰 sဣent him far afield at Gent-Wevelgem(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Marco Haller feeling the strain(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Austrian champion Marco Haller (Katusha)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Katusha-Alpecin's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Haller was struck by a motorist who ran a stop sign while training in Austria on Thursday, suffering multiple fractures to his left knee. The team estimate he will be out for several months and will miss the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, where he was due to be one ofꦬ Marcel Kittel's main lead-out men.
"It was my second day back on the bike, a🐼fter I had to recover from a second viral infection in the 2018 season," Haller said from the Landeskrankenhaus hospital in 🉐Villach.
"I was riding with𓆏 Bernie Eisel and was sitting in his wheel in a slight downhill, when suddenly a car, ignoring the stop sign, came💫 at us from the right. Bernie just managed to escape him, but I could not do that and hit the driver's door at full speed. My bike was completely destroyed and my knee as well."
Haller suffered double fractures🦂 to his patella and a fracture to his left femur.
The incident comes nearly a y🙈ear to the day that Michele Scarponi was struck and killed by a distracted ꦕdriver near his home in Italy.
Earlier in the week, George Bennett (LottoNl-Jumbo) was 168澳洲💙5最新开奖结果:struck by a driver who turned into his path while♊ he was previewing the tim🌼e trial course for the Giro d'Italia. He escaped with minor injuries and is currently racing the Tour of the Alps.
"I am very disappointed. Not only at missing the Tour de ♊France but also because of - again - the attitude of some car drivers," Haller said.
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"Cars and cyclists share the road but this seems to be more and more difficuꦏlt. Some mentality needs to change."
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