Marie Mahé, Media365, published on Friday January 24, 2025 at 3:40 p.m.
This Wednesday, Frenchwoman Marion Sicot, a former cyclist, was sentenced to ten months in prison for doping.
Justice has delivered its verdict. This Wednesday, Frenchwoman Marion Sicot, a former cyclist, was sentenced to a ten-month suspended prison sentence by the Montargis criminal court, for doping between 2016 and 2019. Tested positive for EPO in 2019, the Habs had been suspended for a period of four years. In addition to this conviction, the Frenchwoman was fined 5,000 euros. The public prosecutor of Montargis Jean-Cédric Gaux had requested, against him, a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros. After this verdict, Marion Sicot spoke to theAFP : “It's a page that turns over six years of proceedings. The court understood my situation and took it into account. I am not prohibited from exercising a sporting activity: I therefore still have a future in sport and I am already looking towards the competitions of 2025.”
Sicot: “I wasn’t doing well”
From now on, the sportswoman, now aged 32, wishes to “participate in my own way in the fight against doping”, whenever she “has the opportunity”. During his trial last November, for, in particular, possession and importation of doping products, Sicot declared: “I was not doing well, I lacked a lot of self-confidence (…) To 'perform' at the high level, I took the easy route.” Before the hearing, the Frenchwoman had only spoken publicly about an EPO injection, following a positive test dating back to June 2019 after the French road cycling championships. This led to his two-year suspension, before his sentence was then increased to four years by the Council of State, after a procedure which lasted almost three years. The former cyclist is now a member of the Châteauroux triathlon club (Indre), but also self-employed in the field of sports coaching.
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