Menotropin for Superman Lopez’s flight

Miguel Angel superman Lopez took menotropin for the 2022 Giro d’Italia. Substance prohibited doping, prescribed by doctor Marcos Mainar and delivered directly to Hungary, where the race started, by Vicente Belda García. (son of former director Kelme), who worked as a massage therapist in Astana, the team where the Colombian, third in the Giro and Vuelta in 2018 and stage winner in the big three and became temporarily suspended by the International Cycling Union last July. (UCI) is waiting for the Spanish courts to hear the case.

This is what This emerges from the report of the Civil Guard Central Operations Unit, to which AS had access, and is confirmed by the hearing and evidence. UCO dismantled in In May 2022, a doping network will appear in Caceres, the leader of which will be the famous Mainar. and what they will participate in Vicente Belda Vicedo (father and former director of Kelme who was acquitted in Operation Puerto) and his son. In addition to former cyclists Angel Vazquez Iglesias And Luis Vicente OtinAssistant Physiologist Meinard Ignacio Bartholomewswimming coach Raoul Bernal and cycling director Ruben Thiago Alves Pereira.

Through intercepted conversations (see reproduction), UCO proves that what Meinard calls “Testis” in the code is menotropin (a doping substance used to increase strength, although it is intended to treat infertility). That the doctor, who has had a relationship with Superman since at least 2020, sent him to 2022 Giro through his masseuse “Visentin”, and that intravenous administration of the drug on May 3 or 4 (the first stage was on the 6th) caused severe inflammation in the cyclist.

Everything is over I’m leaving for this reason on the fourth day. “I am sending you everything you need to arrive at the Giro. Please check carefully and if you have any questions, please tell me. Vicente has a testicle,” Mmainara said in a May 1 message to the Colombian.

At first glance, this appears to be a violation of Article 362 quinquies of the Penal Code regarding doping, which provides for a prison sentence of six months to two years for “those who, without therapeutic justification, prescribe, provide, dispense (…) prohibited substances or pharmacological groups (…) endanger their life or health.”

However, it did not seem so to the prosecutor assigned to the case at the Investigative Court No. 4 of Cáceres, headed by Judge Aida Maria de la Cruz de la Torre, who must decide whether to open an oral trial. The prosecutor, in a ruling accessed by AS, is now recommending that the cases against Belda Jr., Vasquez and Autin be “dismissed” and filed. A movement that could destroy years of UCO research. They have not yet commented on the rest, although after completing the investigation they see that it is difficult for them to avoid charges of drug trafficking (Article 361 of the Criminal Code).

In a statement from prosecutor Sonia Castañeda, it is believed that the injectable menotropin that was given to athletes and was even used in Vazquez’s case is a “legal” drug (yes, for fertility problems) that There was no threat to the health of the athlete, and that “it has not been sufficiently proven which athlete they were intended for and in relation to which specific competitions, and whether it was consumed.”

. What seems to be proven in relation to Superman is the actions of the Civil Guard. In February 2022, they even tested a shipment to a cyclist containing four vials of menotropin, which had the commercial seal removed to make identification difficult.

Relatively Vazquez and Autin will be responsible for finding “clients” among athletes from the north. The first, a professional between 2005 and 2007, was disqualified for life. by the Basque EPO consumption agency, but since it did not inform Hispaniola, he was able to obtain a license for Navarre and, for example, take part in the 2014 Quebrantahuesos bike tour, where the Civil Guard had to come out to stop him. According to conversations in the report, he also took Menotropin in 2021 and, in turn, supplied EPO to Otina, this newspaper has learned.

In WhatsApp exchange, Bartolome, a university classmate of Maynard who was also arrested in May 2022, speaks in cryptic terms to Vázquez in 2021: “Did your wife survive the pregnancy? (…) Let’s see if you’re lucky and can become dads.” After an injection of Menotropin, the former cyclist replies: “My butt hurts a little… But everything went well.” “Tell her not to be stupid and to be careful about this,” Bartolome warns her. The Civil Guard called Vazquez’s wife to testify, who denied that she had undergone any fertility treatment.

A lot of evidence, which, however, does not seem like it for the prosecution. With doping, I repeat, the points of view of investigators and justice do not exactly coincide.

MAINAR, BLOOD CENTRIFUGES AT THE UNIVERSITY

Marcos Mainar works at the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences at the University of Extremadura in Caceres, where the registration of the Civil Guard took place. There, the report says, the doctor used public services to “Blood extraction, centrifugation and reinfusion of the part” is the famous practice of Eufemiano Fuentes in Puerto. It would also be prescribed Actovegin (so-called EPO poor) or Dichloroacetic acid (DCA), drugs prohibited for sale in Spain. And it made supplements it called “Yellow” or “Force” that used illegal drugs. Meinard has an ominous history behind him: he signed the acquittal of the football player Gurpegi about a positive result for nandrolone, was acquitted in the Urdaibai case of doping on trawlers and was disqualified for life in Portugal, where the cyclist was treated by him in Los Angeles. -MSS, Bruno Neves, died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 26.

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