In a press release, the Kazakh team formalized the end of the working relationship with the Colombian
Astana sacked Miguel Angel Lopez. The Colombian, born in 1994, has always raced for the Kazakh team except for the 2021 interlude at the Movistar and had finished the last Vuelta in fourth place (3rd in the Giro d’Italia and in the Vuelta in 2018). The team made the decision official with a statement in which it spoke of possible, indeed probable, ties of the rider with the controversial doctor Marcos Maynar Mariño, professor at the University of Extremadura, arrested on 11 May and then released, under investigation for alleged crimes of drug trafficking and money laundering. Hence the breaking of internal rules and the dismissal.
December 12 – 20:21
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