The professional cyclist Alexandre Genieza member of the French team TotalEnergies, was sentenced on Wednesday to four months in prison suspended by the judicial court of Rodez (Aveyron) for domestic violence.
The 33-year-old runner, present for the deliberation, will also have to pay one euro in damages to his ex-companion, as the latter had requested during the hearing in January. During this first hearing, the prosecutor had requested a 6-month suspended prison sentence. The sportsman then declared on this occasion: “We didn’t get along, but there was no violence, that’s for sure.“The complainant had accused Alexandre Geniez of psychological and physical violence for several months, between February 2020 and November 2021. She had provided herself with two medical certificates attesting to the blows. Facts denied by the cyclist, whose defense was put hurt by an audio recording suggesting threats during an altercation in the fall when the couple were in the process of separating.Met in 2013, the couple have two children including a small pablo.
The Frenchman from Rodez had his best years in the FDJ team alongside Thibault Pinot between 2013 and 2016. During this period, he had obtained several places of honor in major cycling events, in particular a 13th place overall in the Tour of Italy in 2014 and a 9th on this same tour in 2015. is during this period that he had made his only two participations in the Tour de France in 2013 and 2015. Winner of three stages of the Tour of Spain in 2013, 2016 and 2018, the Aveyronnais won the prologue last month and the 4th stage of the Tour du Rwanda. He announced that he wanted to retire from sport at the end of the season.