While waiting for your future, Miguel Angel Lopez avoids controversy over its alleged involvement in the ‘Maynar case’ and is claimed on the asphalt. This Sunday, Superman once again won a general classification, something he had not done since the 2021 Vuelta a Andalucía with the colors of Movistar, in the Return to San Juan, ratifying his great performance in Alto del Colorado in view of Filippo Ganna (2nd) and Sergio Higuita (3rd), their companions on the podium.
A whole message to the cycling elite that his status as a great climber is the same, that his courage is still intact. Astana terminated his contract on December 12, claiming to have evidence of the alleged “connection” of the Colombian with Marcos Maynar. Last Wednesday, January 25, the doctor and professor at the University of Extremadura, who is accused of trafficking in prohibited drugs, declared his innocence in the Investigating Court number 4 of Cáceres and He exonerated López, to whom he only said he had provided “nutritional support” with his recommendation for the use of Actovegin, a sort of substitute for EPO that is not banned by the AMA.
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“Of other athletes I do not put my hand in the fire, but I do put the hand of this kid that he has not used prohibited substances in his life. Maybe if it were European they wouldn’t be so harsh,” Maynar explained in his statement. For his part, Superman dodges his future in his interventions with the Press during his stay in San Juan: “I’ve been through difficult times. The end of the year was difficult. but already in January I started to focus on this race and I trained well for twenty days. With the director I talked about coming here to enjoy, to have a good time with this sport that we carry in our blood. Without seeing the results. Just enjoy.”
The coffee maker gives the Team Medellin, team with which he signed a contract for 2023 once the doors of the World Tour were closed, his first victories of the season in which his situation is resolved, as his partner told this newspaper Óscar Sevilla, “for better or for worse”. The closing of the Argentine round, with a tribute included for a Max Richeze hanging the bike as a professional, came with the second consecutive victory of sam welsford (DSM) in a new massive sprint. Remco Evenepoel put some pepper to the last kilometers, when he escaped with Quinn Simmons to lead the peloton by 30″, but the reaction of the sprinter teams, although late, put an end to their adventure.
Results and overall final of the Vuelta a San Juan
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