He has been stranded in Madrid since January 8 due to the covid.

The Colombian Miguel Ángel

Supermán

López (Boyacá, 1994) was first confined in a hotel and now he is at the house of a friend, far from the Movistar preseason concentration in Almería.

The climber comes to a team with which two years ago he had a dispute over a fan on a stage of the Vuelta.

That was forgotten ("they are racing things") and now he will be the benchmark for Eusebio Unzue's squad in Tour and Vuelta.

Stopped by the virus.

Strange start at Movistar I was infected before coming to Spain.

I am waiting for the new PCR to be able to train with the team.

I'm fine, but in-laws and a niece were also affected.

For me it is better that this has happened to me now than in the middle of the season, everything will be different after the pandemic.

Will cycling ever be the same? I don't think it will ever be the same again.

Cycling is not like soccer.

With us, the spectators are in the ports giving encouragement.

Hopefully the situation will normalize soon, but now everyone is scared.

We already had the mirror last year.

Let's see if this season, that we have more knowledge, everything is different.

His beginnings were not easy, he comes from a humble family Yes, my parents are farmers.

They taught me the value of work and sacrifice, to be helpful and to appreciate the little things in life.

I learned to sow, to milk cows, to take care of sheep ... It was a good apprenticeship.

Superman's nickname comes from that virtue of valuing and defending one's own.

They call me that because of something that happened to me when I was 17 years old.

Then I faced two older boys who wanted to steal my bike.

I was not willing to have a bicycle stolen that my father had given me, who had a hard time buying it.

He couldn't let me steal and they gave me two knives in the right leg, but in the end I kept the bike.

His career has not been easy, injuries and falls haunt him. It seems that there have been many misfortunes, but I have to say that I have been lucky.

If you ride a bike, you have risks, that's as if you drink wine or beer and think that you will never get drunk.

They are hazards of the trade: you fall because you are not attentive or due to bad luck.

Indurain never fell, for sure he fell sometime ... In the end, the good moments outweigh the bad ones, despite the falls he was third in the Vuelta and in the Giro.

Where is your limit, I don't know.

The limit is set by oneself, but we can never know what it will be.

If we were a machine, an analysis could be done. I ask you in another way, what are your aspirations? Win a grand tour.

In 2020 I was third until the final part of the Tour, so ... He was condemned by the time trial of the penultimate day. Yes, I have to improve in all aspects, not only in the time trials. The competition is enormous due to the emergence of young people like Pogacar, Bernal or Evenepoel.

Where does the secret of that generation lie? These pelaítos from the age of 14 prepare like professionals, with diet and specific training.

They take care of all the details and reach professionals doing everything perfect.

We didn't look at technology so much.

They are aware of the latest that is coming out. Which of them will go further? I don't know, because in the end we are all human.

The one that impacts me the most is Pogacar, whom I have known for a long time.

Let's see what happens this year on the Tour, because everyone will be watching him and he will have to adopt a different strategy ... It is difficult to calculate what will happen to these pelaítos because their peaks are getting them quite soon.

I don't know how Pogacar will be when he reaches 35 years old.

Maintaining that great form for 10 seasons and playing the big three is very difficult. The logical thing is that they burn out soon and that none of them is active until they are 40, like Alejandro Valverde. There is only one Alejandro.

I have not yet turned 27 and I already look old. What will you contribute to Movistar? It depends on how they see me and how they take me, on the plan they have with me.

I like to aspire to the big three, but they may have another role for me. Would you take a supporting role? I'm here to take orders.

They are the ones who rule.

If I have the opportunity to go to the Tour and then I have to shake hands with someone else in the Vuelta, no problem, Movistar has always looked to Colombia for sports and advertising interests.

Before he opted for Nairo Quintana and now for you.

In a way, do you feel like Nairo's successor? I don't know if Nairo's successor.

I also like to fight the Grand Tours, I think the three-week tests are good for me.

I've always been an attacking runner.

This is how I did it since I started in youth, when I won the Tour del Porvenir, or in the sub 23 category, I always won attacking.

When there are legs, I try.

When I don't attack it is because I don't have what to attack with.

I never want to. Nairo Quintana's farewell from Movistar was not kind, among other issues, due to the disputes with Mikel Landa and Valverde.

Are you afraid the same will happen to you? It all depends on how things are done.

I haven't even been in contact with the team about quarantine yet.

The secret is to plan your races well.

If the objectives do not go out due to a fall or injury, everything can be rethought.

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