In the summer of 2022, he shot the cat of San Marino's Minister of Tourism - now Italian professional cyclist Antonio Tiberi has been dismissed from his Trek-Segafredo racing team. The driver's actions during his suspension did not meet the team's criteria for a return to competition, the team said in a statement released on Friday. They had mutually agreed on a separation with immediate effect. There are no further details at this time.

At the end of February, the 21-year-old, who is considered one of Italy's greatest cycling talents, was sentenced to a fine of 4000,20 euros by a court at his home in San Marino for shooting the cat of Tourism Minister Federico Amati. His racing team immediately banned him for at least <> days without pay. Tiberi's salary was to be donated to an animal charity. The team had expressly not ruled out an extension of the ban.

In the summer of 2022, Tiberi had bought an air rifle and wanted to try it out. So he first shot at a traffic sign from the window of his apartment. Then he decided to aim at a cat's head – and fatally hit it. The cat belonged to Federico Amati, who called the police. The case ended up in court.

There, Tiberi, once a junior world champion in the individual time trial, said last November that he only wanted to test the range of the weapon and then wanted to hit a cat. To his surprise, he actually met her. "I didn't want to kill them and was even convinced that my weapon was not lethal."