Moreni to pay fine to UCI

Italian Cristian Moreni is to pay the International Cycling Union a year's salary for failing an anti-doping test, the UCI said yesterday. Moreni was handed a two-year ban from the sport after testing positive for testosterone during the 2007 Tour de...

Italian Cristian Moreni is to pay the International Cycling Union a year's salary for failing an anti-doping test, the UCI said yesterday.

Moreni was handed a two-year ban from the sport after testing positive for testosterone during the 2007 Tour de France.

In June that year, the UCI said a rider testing positive would be suspended at least two years and would have to pay a year's salary, with the fine being used to fund the governing body's anti-doping programme.

"Cristian came up to our headquarters to find an agreement with us to pay his one-year salary fine," UCI head Pat McQuaid said.

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