Despite not winning a race in 2008, French veteran Christophe Moreau will retire with Agritubel at the end of the 2009 season.

The French team announced on its web page that the 37-year-old will conclude his 14-year cycling career with the team next year.

Moreau is the last active rider of the infamous Festina team that was kicked out of the 1998 Tour de France after evidence of widespread doping was revealed within the squad. Moreau served a six-month racing ban and resumed competition in 1999.

“For my part, I paid for what I did,” Moreau told reporters last year about his role in the Festina Affaire. “All I know is that I came out of it stronger. It transformed my life.”

In 2000, Moreau finished a career-best fourth in the Tour after then-teammate Joseba Beloki knocked him out of a podium spot in the final time trial in what was Lance Armstrong’s second Tour win.

Moreau switched to Credit Agricole in 2002 and enjoyed what was his best post-Festina season in 2007, winning the Dauphiné Libéré ahead of Cadel Evans and winning the French national championship.

He later abandoned the Tour and his then-Ag2r team, where he joined in 2006, didn’t want to pay his asking price and let him sign with Agritubel.

In 2008 in his first season with Agritubel, Moreau quit the Tour in the first week and could only muster second in the Route de Sud behind Garmin-Chipotle’s Danny Martin and the best climber’s jersey at the Volta a Catalunya.