Franck Bonnamour has announced that he is calling the end of his cycling career, citing the financial burden of fighting the suspension from the race over the abnormality of his biological passport.

The UCI temporarily suspended the Frenchman on May 2022 for "unexplained anomalies in biological passports" that reportedly occurred after testing at Stage 20 of the Tour de France 2.

Bonnamour's team, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, fired him in late May 3 and said the incident was dated to "a check made before arriving at the team in 2023/1/1.""In the meantime, he has continued to fight his case, claiming he is innocent about the charges.

However, he announced on Thursday that he has given up the fight and chose to retire from the race, to West France.

"Financially it's too expensive, so I'm stuck," Bonnamour said. "We had to start proceedings before the UCI Court before going to the arbitration court for sports.

"If we had succeeded, the UCI would have appealed, it would have pushed back the deadline by a year and a half and increased costs." I can't afford to lose everything and it keeps me financially.

Bonnamour's unusual profile dates back to his neo-pro season at Fortuneo-Vital Concept in 2016, when tests returned high hemoglobin levels. At his interim stop, Samuel Meraffi, a doctor on the B&B hotel team who raced in 2021 and 2022, said: "I have never noticed anything unusual in his surveillance."

According to Pascal Chanteur, President of the French Riders Union, the Bonemour case is based on tests conducted during the last and 2022 phase of the Tour de France, where Bonemour is alleged to have suffered COVID–19 symptoms and dehydration, as well as an out-of-competition test from 2018/10. Based on the test.

"What interest did he have in doing it?Chanteur asked West France on 6 May. "It's total and flagrant injustice. I don't know why the tests conducted in 2016 that showed an atypical profile were not priced. I don't know why the 2022 Tour de France has passed between the time this test was conducted at the end of the year and the UCI notice 1."

Bonnamour sold his apartment to fund the fight against UCI and spent thousands of euros to hire experts and lawyers, including €4,000 to biologists who conducted an analysis that "clearly explained the potential for defense."

"He was able to explain my atypical variations and profile. Before signing his report, he contacted me and my lawyer and said that he would not go any further because some of his research was funded by WADA. He gave us up.

"The last six months have been difficult and I did not want it to last like this for two or three years. My priority is to keep my family together."

Bonnamour remains on the uci's interim suspension list because of "prohibited methods and/or use of prohibited substances" and faces a 4-year ban from the sport.

While his lawyers are negotiating the length of his final sanction and final fine, Bonamore accepts that he will not race again.

"My career is over. I've been through everything," he said. "There have been difficult moments in my morale, but I have received family support and counselling as well.

"I am afraid of the future, but I know what I am doing and what I am not doing.

With his retirement, Bonamore ended his 8-year career in cycling. The 2013 Junior European champion turned professional in 2016 and after spending five years at Arkea Samsik, spent his last full season in the Decathlon AG2R with two seasons of racing at the now defunct B&B Hotel

His best season was in 2021 at the uci. It came when he finished a career-high 109th place in the rankings with 566 points.

That year, he won the Tour de France Combat Award after winning 4 top 10 stage finishes. He also won the podium in the Tour de Paris and Tour de Limousin, and won the top 10 finishes in the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, Paris Camembert, Brittany Classic West France and the Tour de Jura.