- Team mate was rasehetset. Then said Boasson Hagen clear from – Adresseavisen

Edvald Boasson Hagen’s team MTN Qhubeka is not like any other team in this year’s Tour de France. Layer, which is registered in South Africa, the first African team in the Tour de France since the 50s (if not raining Team Barloworld, who had South African roots, but which was registered in Europe).

Created doing charitable work, and around half of the riders of the team are from Africa, including Daniel Teklehaimanot of Eritrea, as Thursday rode into climbing jersey in Tour de France.

Thursday evening was supposed to be about celebration Teklehaimanot triumph for the team, but instead let racist agitation against the crew riders weighed on sentiment, writes The Telegraph.

Opposite the British newspaper says team leader Doug Ryder of widespread bullying and racist agitation against riders his.

In Austria All around, a race which will be held parallel to the Tour de France, the Belarusian rider Branislau Samoilau have shouted “JÆ *** *** ne” to Natnael Berhane, who won the national championship in Eritrea this year.

Samoilau allegedly pulled a monthly salary after the event.

Samoilaus teams confirmed to The Telegraph that “unfortunate and unacceptable” words were said by the Belarusian rider.

READ MORE: Teklehaimanot historic triumph.

The event in Austria Around shall, however, far from having been an isolated case.

– One of the biggest teams in the world said, when we tried to carry one of our riders to the front of the field during Spain Around, that “you fortjerner not being here. Insert back in the field for f ***, “says Ryder.

– We have riders like Tyler (Farrar, journ.’s Note.) And Edvald (Boasson Hagen, journ.’s Note.), Riders who are highly respected in the field and who are teammates theirs, saying: “Hey, guys, come on, these guys deserve to be here.”

Moreover tells Ryder that the majority of bike family respects made, but that it is a minority who “can not understand” what they are trying to do.

Through Qhubeka Foundation wants made to offer poor Africans bicycles. The African continent has historically struggled miserably to put its mark on the international cycling sport.

Edvald Boasson Hagen signed for MTN Qhubeka before this season. He has also been in South Africa to witness the foundation’s work.

Boasson Hagen is an outsider in the current Tour de France stage, which finish in Fougères.