Statements 'Supermán' López defends himself after his controversial abandonment: "I want to apologize"
The Movistar cycling team and the Colombian rider
Miguel Ángel 'Supermán' López
have communicated the "resolution by mutual agreement" as of next October 1 of the contract that united the parties.
"The team thanks Miguel Ángel for the efforts made and the results obtained during the season, and wishes him good luck for the future," it is specified on the Movistar team's social networks.
López's departure from the telephone team could be seen coming from the abandonment of the Colombian runner in the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a España, between the Galician towns of Mos and Castro de Herville, when he was cut off 50 kilometers from the finish line.
Supermán got off the bike without physical problems, obfuscated because he was losing the podium of the race by not having entered a cut that occurred on the stage and in which the first two of the general,
Primoz Roglic
and his partner were.
Enric Mas
.
López, who was third overall at the start of that penultimate stage, watched as Australian
Jack Haig
and Swiss
Gino Mader
, who also entered the breakaway of the best, surpassed him in the classification and left him without a place on the podium .
The Fisheries manager could not convince him to resume his career, neither his director, Patxi Vila, nor the veteran Imanol Erviti, who spoke with him to do so.
Hours later, his team director,
Eusebio Unzue
, spoke of the events as an experience never experienced before and hinted that what happened could make López's continuity in the team rethink.
Two days earlier the runner had been proclaimed winner of the queen stage of the Spanish round by being the first to cross the top of Gamoniteiru.
It was Movistar's first victory in the recent edition of the Vuelta and the first for the cyclist four years after the one he won in Calar Alto in 2017.
Curiously, López had renewed for Movistar for two years, until 2023, a couple of days before the start of the Vuelta.
A news announced on August 12.
Miguel Ángel López had joined Movistar at the beginning of this season, from Astana, after signing for the Spanish team at the end of last year 2020.
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