Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Froome Monday!

Chris Froome has held onto his yellow jersey (on and off) for most of the first week of the Tour de France, but there has been so many other things happen in the French Grand Tour. We try to pack in as much as we can with photos, rider quotes, race reports, results and video. Don’t forget there is the Tour of Austria, Jrme Pineau to retire and the kitchen in the air. All in EuroTrash Monday.TOP STORY: Which Story?Which story from the week-end is the top one? There has been quite a lot going on: Tony Martin is the second yellow jersey non starter in this Tour de France, after Fabian Cancellara abandoned. Luca Paolini was withdrawn from the Tour due to a positive drugs test for cocaine. Unlikely he had taken it during the Tour, but maybe at a pre-Tour party he was at the week before instead of riding the Italian National road championships. La Gazzetta della Sport are reporting that the UCI testers came only to test Paolini and an un-named BMC rider. Did they know something already? Or the racial abuse that Natnael Berhane received during the Tour of Austria. Branislau Samoilau of the Polish CCC Sprandi Polkowice team called Berhane a “f*****g n****r”, after Berhane complained, the race commissars were going to throw Samoilau off the race, but Berhane said not to after the Belarusian apologized and donated a months wages to the Qhubeka charity. No, I think the ‘TOP STORY’ has to be...

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