Miguel 'Supermán' López: Vicente Belda filed charges against him for doping issues

Miguel Ángel 'Supermán' López has had a few hectic days and after the confirmation of the court of Cáceres, Spain, to withdraw the accusation in the investigation of the doping plot called Operation Ilex, since the Colombian has survived a difficult stage, but has not won the race.

It was confirmed that the runner, who was being investigated for his links to thea Operation Ilex, doping plot in Spain, He has no problem from now on regarding tax or criminal matters.

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Strong declarations

López's entourage has already spoken on the subject. Rafael Acevedo, sHis father-in-law and who was the person who helped him in his first years as a cyclist, told what he experienced within the family.

“That's how it was. They packed the 'monkey' in that, but there is nothing. Now, with this, we will see what his future will be,” he said.

And he added: “It is obvious that Miguel was innocent and with that decision of the court, which found nothing, we are calmer.”

Acevedo pointed out that for the moment López continues to prepare, he has not stopped training and hopes that the International Cycling Union (UCI) will take action on the matter and define his future.

The ICU It keeps him provisionally suspended and hopes to gather the documentation to make a decision about the corridor.

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Another of the people who took a weight off their shoulders, because just like the accusation was withdrawn from López, is Vicente Beldathe masseuse of the Astana team, who was linked to the investigation because, supposedly, he injected López with the substance menotropin.

Clear accounts

Belda spoke, clarified the whole issue and referred, not in the best way, to the Boyacá cyclist, in an interview with the Marca newspaper, from which we extract the main moments.

The relationship with López. “Miguel Ángel calls me and he tells me that he is going to send me a package with supplements so that I can take it to the Giro because he is in Andorra and the package is not going to arrive at his house on time. He wants me to take it. In principle I don't object to him because he was part of something normal. The cyclists, who are often away from home or their country, send things to your house for you to take with them. That week I received gels from one brand, salts from another…I didn't give it much thought. I thought it was supplementation that had come to me. When I was packing my suitcase to go to the Giro the day before going to Hungary, I saw that they were blisters and I threw them away. Seeing the conversations afterwards between both of them (Maynar and López), it makes me think that they set the trap for me to take the product to Hungary.”

Notified. “After the Giro. When I get home that same week, the Civil Guardthe house to tell me that I had to make the declaration in town. Two of the UCO and they showed me documentation telling me that that package was menotropin. That's when I found out, until that moment I didn't know anything.”

Sending López to Hungary. “López arrives the same day I arrived. During that same week he told me that he had brought him the supplementation. I told him yes, but not the last package because they were blisters and he couldn't carry them. He tells me that he didn't know what the package was, but that it wasn't illegal. He tells me 'don't worry, it's nothing illegal'. I didn't gamble. I threw them away and that's it. It was fast because he came to Hungary already injured and was more worried about the injury than the supplementation.”

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He didn't speak to her again.

Lopez's explanations. “I ask them in June when the Civil Guard tells me what it is. I told him before that he had left them in the trash, but he told me it was legal. In June, when I found out it was menotropin, I contacted him and asked him. On Wednesday the pain began. The team became concerned and began to look. But until we get to Sicily “They don't do any ultrasound to know what exactly is there.”

'Supermán''s injuries “Something in the left quadriceps injury. After a week or so they did an echo and a muscle tear appeared. Upon landing in Hungary he was more worried about the injury than the packages. He already arrived injured in Hungary. It's not like many say that I injected him and he got injured. He arrived injured. “We suspected it was the same injury as other times.”

Did López do something illegal? “As far as I know, he was not doing anything illegal. In April of that year, two or three weeks before going to the Giro, he told me that he is working with Marcos and that everything he does is legal. That he takes supplementation and some of the diet. Nothing else. At no time does he tell me what he gives her or what he doesn't. In the Giro? He was given nothing, impossible.”

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He lost contact with López. “I haven't spoken since June when I contacted him when the Civil Guard came and told him that those vials he sent me were illegal. There he stopped writing to me and talking to me. From the first moment he accuses me, he says it's my fault, which is the version he gives to the team. I reported it to Astana in July. Miguel cuts me off there, he doesn't want to know anything. I call him and tell him that this issue must be resolved… Then I don't hear anything from him and he says in different places that it is my fault. Last year, when he started running with the Team MedellinHe continued accusing me that I was in trouble because I knew the doctor. I gave him the phone number, he contacted him and in 2021 he started working with Marcos. But in 2021, which is when he starts working with Marcos, I am not with him because he is no longer in Astana.”

The message. “I settled it the day I told him what had happened and he didn't answer me. I told him and his wife that, because of him, I had been here. They did not answer me”.

The last. “I can forgive, but not forget. I have no resentment towards him. But I don't want to have anything with him or his surroundings.”
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