UCI wins biological passport anti-doping verdicts

The International Cycling Union says Italian rider Franco Pellizotti has been found guilty of doping and must serve a two-year suspension in a landmark case for the sport's biological passport project.

The UCI tells The Associated Press that the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by cycling's governing body seeking to ban Pellizotti after he was cleared by an Italian anti-doping court.

The UCI says CAS also rejected Pietro Caucchioli's appeal against a two-year suspension imposed by the Italian Olympic Committee.

Pellizotti and Caucchioli never tested positive for banned drugs, but showed irregular results in blood samples taken for their biological passport.