Miguel Ángel Lopez Discussion Thread

[Tim Cahill]

I think you are confusing the Tour Colombia with Vuelta a Colombia

Tour Colombia 2.1 2020 Stage 6 results

Sergio Higuita is the winner of Tour Colombia 2.1 2020, before Daniel Felipe Martínez and Jonathan Klever Caicedo. The stage from Zipaquirá to El Once/Alto del Verjón was won by Daniel Felipe Martínez.

www.procyclingstats.com

Yes you're right this one

 

[fmk_RoI]

Looks like Astana done the right thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1683860240914161664

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_media/status/1683860240914161664

 

[SHAD0W93]

Looks like Astana done the right thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1683860240914161664

View: https://twitter.com/UCI_media/status/1683860240914161664

They said you can beat up the competition but we won’t let you be at Worlds.

 

[Izzyeviel]

pop goes the weasel.

 

[Red Rick]

End of an error

 

[Rackham]

I thought doping was a thing of the past. Isn't that what we've been told repeatedly? i.e. the peloton has been clean since the dirty-bad Armstrong era.

Modern pros ride on clean energy.

 

[fmk_RoI]

I thought doping was a thing of the past. Isn't that what we've been told repeatedly? i.e. the peloton has been clean since the dirty-bad Armstrong era.

Modern pros ride on clean energy.

Let's save the D-word for the Other Place and think here only of his loss to such stellar races as the Clásica de Ciclismo Ciudad de Villeta. He will be sorely missed. By the few who still remember him.

 

[RedheadDane]

Guess he isn't an angel...

 

[Rackham]

Let's save the D-word for the Other Place and think here only of his loss to such stellar races as the Clásica de Ciclismo Ciudad de Villeta. He will be sorely missed. By the few who still remember him.

Best high altitude climber in modern pro cycling (at least until Vingegaard became Vingegaard).

Also, best meltdown ever in the 2021 Vuelta (rage quitting incident).

 

[Libertine Seguros]

A lot of admin for the Vuelta a Colombia organisers to get through now reallocating stages and prize money.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Let's save the D-word for the Other Place and think here only of his loss to such stellar races as the Clásica de Ciclismo Ciudad de Villeta. He will be sorely missed. By the few who still remember him.

I don't know man, the forum rules are not supposed to be a road racing forum omerta. He's provisionally suspended, that's a fact not speculation.
Discussions about it belong in the clinic, sure, but you are suggesting just to act as if he was a tragic loss from pro-cycling. That's overdoing it. Of course it's your right to act as if doping wasn't a part of the sport, but you can't demand it from the rest of us, especially not once someone is actually suspended.

 

[Rackham]

I don't know man, the forum rules are not supposed to be a road racing forum omerta. He's provisionally suspended, that's a fact not speculation.
Discussions about it belong in the clinic, sure, but you are suggesting just to act as if he was a tragic loss from pro-cycling. That's overdoing it. Of course it's your right to act as if doping wasn't a part of the sport, but you can't demand it from the rest of us, especially not once someone is actually suspended.

Yeah it's a tough call because the big bad D-word is actually mentioned several times in the UCI article.

There's no hiding from this one.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Of course it's your right to act as if doping wasn't a part of the sport, but you can't demand it from the rest of us, especially not once someone is actually suspended.

Cause, like, after more than a decade on this site, everyone knows I think the sport is totes cleans and there's no such thing as doping.

I'm simply suggesting you follow the forum's rules. Don't, if you want: if you're lucky all that'll happen is you get some posts deleted.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm simply suggesting you follow the forum's rules. Don't, if you want: if you're lucky all that'll happen is you get some posts deleted.

Says the guy who literally posted the link to the article here, rather than down in "The Other Place"...

 

[IndianCyclist]

Like Icarus he rose too high in the winner standings and his wings were clipped

 

[hfer07]

So this is it for MAL

hope he'd saved some money & got a good financial cushion moving forward.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It also opens up a spot on the road racing team.

It surely can only be filled by a rider of similar or even greater prestige than Lopez...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

It also opens up a spot on the road racing team.

It surely can only be filled by a rider of similar or even greater prestige than Lopez...

Álvaro Hodeg?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Álvaro Hodeg?

The prodigal son

Jarlinson Pantano.

 

[shalgo]

Álvaro Hodeg?

What's Betancur up to these days?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Miguel Angel Lopez suspended following potential anti-doping rule violation

Following an investigation from the International Testing Agency, Lopez has been provisionally suspended by the UCI

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

A scandal…

Maybe winning almost all stages at the Vuelta a Colombia is considered a „potential anti-doping rule violation“ - I have no other explanation.

I hope this ban ends in time before the Vuelta a Espana, so he can lead one of the teams there…

 

[SHAD0W93]

A scandal…

Maybe winning almost all stages at the Vuelta a Colombia is considered a „potential anti-doping rule violation“ - I have no other explanation.

I hope this ban ends in time before the Vuelta a Espana, so he can lead one of the teams there…

Who’s going to pick him up now though? To me it looks like his career at the pro level is done unfortunately.

 

[Valv.Piti]

The great Colombian generation just vanished before our eyes. MAL, Quintana, Betancur, Bernal, Henao.. now they have an underperforming Felipe Martinez and Higuita.

 

[SHAD0W93]

The great Colombian generation just vanished before our eyes. MAL, Quintana, Betancur, Bernal, Henao.. now they have an underperforming Felipe Martinez and Higuita.

Uran too if we’re including Henao, only a year older and it feels like he’s been riding for forever.