Giovanni Carboni provisionally suspended over Biological Passport anomalies
The UCI announced on Thursday that Giovanni Carboni of the Unibet Tietema Rockets has been provisionally suspended "due to unexplained abnormalities in his Athlete Biological Passport" last year. Sanctions based off of Biological Passport abnormalities alone are relatively rare, with bans more often following positive tests for specific substances, but the news comes three weeks after Franck Bonnamour received a four-year ban for his own Biological Passport abnormalities.
Carboni, who has previously ridden for Bardiani-CSF and Kern Pharma, returned to the second division with the Unibet Tietema Rockets this season after a compiling several strong results in 2024 while racing at the Continental level with JCL Team UKYO. The 30-year-old Italian was slated to race at the Gran Premio città di Peccioli-Coppa Sabatini on Thursday but was a late scratch instead.
