He gets up off the ground and shouts at the fan, demanding to know whose jacket had caused the crash in the closing kilometres of the Worlds in Bergen on Sunday.
Marco Haller loses temper with Bergen Worlds fans
When a jacket took down several riders close to end of the Worlds in Bergen Marco Haller lost his temper with the fans.
The 26-year-old Austrian, who rides for Katusha-Alpecin, was one of several to crash, having lasted the pace in the lead group.
With the 276.5km race just about to go up Salmon Hill for the final time, disaster struck.
A fans jacket, apparently hung over the crowd control barrier, caught Haller’s handlebars.
It took him and about five others down, including Belgians Tiesj Benoot, Jens Keukeleire, and Jasper Stuyven.
But while most of the fallers got back up and tried to chase back on, Haller lost his cool.
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He went over to the crowd asking who owned the jacket. And then he picked the jacket up off the road and threw it towards oncoming vehicles.
It was a difficult end to a very hard race. He would trail home in 112th some 9:24 down.
It's not the first time a fans jacket hung over barriers caused such an incident this year as Peter Sagan was taken down in the Tour of Flanders in the same way.
He was riding very close to the barriers on the cobbles only to snag his bars. Consequently he fell very heavily.
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Happy with the team performance yesterday, but a pity that a jacket makes an end to my WC.. (watch from 2:00) https://t.co/wAUpQMQy2j
— Tiesj (@TiesjBenoot) September 25, 2017
Crash before Salmon Hill ruined my final. Shame we could not get closer to the win. Credits for the team performance. #NextStep pic.twitter.com/jnW1m67Dfy
— Jasper Stuyven (@Jasperstuyven) September 24, 2017
— Marco Haller (@mhaller91) September 25, 2017
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