Belgian Tom Boonen has been told that all criminal charges relating to his use of cocaine will be dropped if he pays a 1000-euro fine (£877), the public prosecutor in Turnhout said.
The court said if Boonen, a former world champion and Tour de France stage winner who is a specialist in the Belgian one-day classics, paid the fine the case would be closed.
"We consider Boonen as just another consumer of drugs, not as a famous sportsman of whom an example should be made," the public prosecutor was quoted as saying in Het Nieuwsblad newspaper.
News extracted from Eurosport
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