A talented Italian cyclist with big aspirations for the future has been fined for shooting his neighbour's cat with an air rifle.
Antonio Tiberi, aged 21, pleaded guilty to shooting the cat from near the window of his apartment and told a court that he had “had no intention of killing the animal,” according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The professional cyclist, who rides for Trek-Segafredo, was fined £3,509 by a court in San Marino, a popular home town for cyclists. Tiberi claimed that he had purchased the gun a week before the incident took place and claimed he was unaware of the rifle's power.
