Miguel Ángel López receives four-year doping ban

Lengthy ban relates to findings from 2022 Giro d’Italia

Miguel Angel Lopez at the 2022 Tour of the Alps
(Image credit: Getty Images)

Miguel Ángel López has been banned for four years for using a prohibited substance, the UCI has announced. 

The UCI’s anti-doping tribunal found the Colombian guilty of an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) for the use and possession of Menotropin, a banned substance. The charges date back to 2022 when López was competing during the Giro d’Italia that year. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.