Miguel Ángel López takes Astana to CAS

Miguel Angel Lopez in the colours of his new team, Medellin-EPM
Miguel Angel Lopez in the colours of his new team, Medellin-EPM (Image credit: Getty Images)

Miguel Ángel López has announced that he has taken his former team Astana Qazaqstan to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming unfair dismissal after he was fired over alleged links to a doctor at the heart of of a doping investigation. 

López was sacked by Astana in December for 'breach of internal rules' and what was termed a 'probable connection' with Marcos Maynar, the doctor who was arrested in the Spanish police's Operación Ilex investigation. 

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