This is a leg wound inflicted during the huge crash at E3 Harelbeke today. As you can see, the rider was left to pick carbon fibre fragments out of the wound.
Having been forced out of Paris-Nice recently due to illness, Marco Haller has had further back luck in E3 Harelbeke today.
The Katusha rider was one of a huge number of fallers when a crash blocked the road.
Many riders came down onto the tarmac, and also into the fields on both sides of the road.
Haller was in the middle of it all, with bikes and other riders crashing down on top of him.
But it wasn’t until after he had gathered himself that he realised what had actually happened.
He’d suffered a pretty nasty wound to his leg. And as he cleaned it up and examined it more closely he noticed carbon fibre in the wound.
Obviously a piece of broken bike had cut into his flesh and left behind some fragments.
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The crash occurred in the race with just over 100km remaining. At the time of writing the racing was still underway.
We’ll have more later.
#RBE3H Chaos at #E3Harelbeke. Big crash in the peloton.
? 107km | ⏱ 5'30" pic.twitter.com/HwXrjQkhdE— Brain on Wheels ? (@BrainOnWheels) March 23, 2018
Pieces of carbon in @mhaller91 ‘s left leg. #E3Harelbeke Painful but Marco strong guy. pic.twitter.com/uTNFzIaeze
— Team KATUSHA ALPECIN (@katushacycling) March 23, 2018
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