He Sports arbitration court (Tas) ha dismissed the appeal filed by The Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel Superman López against the International Cycling Union (UCI) for the four -year sanction imposed in May 2024 by declaring him guilty of a Infringement of anti -doping standards for use and possession of a prohibited substance (Menotropin) during the 2022 Italian turn.
The tas, unanimously, has confirmed “in its entirety“The punishment which imposed the anti -doping organ of the UCI, which entered into force on July 25, 2023, so Miguel Ángel López will continue outside the competition until July 24, 2027, The agency reports in a statement.
In court, Based in Lausana (Switzerland), the 31 -year -old Colombian corridor, consumed the prohibited substance At some point between May 1 and 5, 2022, as determined by the UCI
As soon as the suspension decreed by the maximum organism of cycling is known, Miguel Ángel Lópezwhich belonged to the Team Medellín-EPM team at the time of the sanction, He announced that he would resort to the TAS to be considered innocent.
“I deeply disagree with it, Understanding that the previous decisions made by the Spanish Courts and the TAS themselves are unmarked. I insist on maintaining the existence of an infraction based on the interpretation of conversations that were biased and manipulated“The winner of the Volta to Catalunya of 2019 and several stages of the Tour of Spain and the Tour de France alleged.
The disciplinary procedure began in the thread of an investigation developed by the International Control Agency (ITA) based on the evidence obtained from the Civil Guard and the Spanish Anti -Doping Organization (Celad) in the called ‘ilex’ operation, relative to doctor Marcos Maynar.
López, who militated six seasons in Astana, the first in 2015, and one at the Movistar Team (2021), was in 2018 third of the general in the Giro de Italia and the Return to Spain, and ended sixth in the Francia Tour 2020, in addition to winning the Tour of Switzerland In 2016.
