LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Italian cyclist Pietro Caucchioli has given evidence at sport’s highest court in the first legal challenge to the International Cycling Union’s biological passport anti-doping program.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport heard Caucchioli’s appeal Tuesday to annul a two-year ban for doping imposed by Italy’s Olympic committee in June.
Caucchioli never tested positive for banned drugs. He was sanctioned after the UCI said blood samples taken for his passport gave irregular results.
A verdict is scheduled within several weeks.
The court will hear another biological passport test case on Jan. 20.
The UCI has appealed the Slovenian Olympic committee’s refusal to discipline Tadej Valjavec based on his blood profile.
