CyclistPro Log: Miguel ngel Lpez given four-year ban, Anna Shackley steps in Sports Director role after forced retirement, Unbound Gravel results and Olympics selectionsWelcome back to another edition of Pro Log. Were at that pivotal point of the pro season between the Giro dItalia and Tour de France, which means its time for the Critrium du Dauphin. The week-long stage race got underway yesterday, with Denmarks Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) winning the first stage around Saint-Pourain-sur-Sioule. His time in the yellow jersey would be short-lived, however. On a challenging Stage 2 route that finished on the 1,251m Col de la Loge, Pedersen would be dropped to the tune of four minutes, with countryman Magnus Cort Nielsen (Uno-X) winning in the mist to take over the race lead, four seconds ahead of Primo Rogli (Bora-Hansgrohe).Results powered by FirstCycling.com Related Posts British rising star Anna Shackley forced to retire from professional cycling at 22 years old Critrium du Dauphin 2024: Route, TV guide and everything you need to know Miguel ngel Lpez receives four-year ban for MenotropinLuis Angel GomezMiguel ngel Lpez has been banned for four years for the possession and use of prohibited substance Mentropin prior to the 2022 Giro dItalia. The Colombian abandoned the race on Stage 4 but went on to finish fourth overall at the Vuelta a Espaa later in the year.Astana severed ties with the Colombian in December that year after his alleged links to Spanish doctor Marcos Maynar who is under investigation for being part of a doping ring through Operation Ilex were revealed. Lpez was initially suspended on 25th July 2023.Racing at the time for Continental squad Team Medellin-EPM, Lpez had just won the 2023 Vuelta a Colombia, taking eight out of nine stages in the process and winning the points and mountains classifications too.He has a month to appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.Anna Shackley to take up DS roleThe very promising career of Anna Shackley was very sadly ended prematurely due to health issues earlier this year, however, Anna is now focussed on remaining in the sport, albeit in a different role as a Director Sportive. She will be undertaking the UCI DS course in Aigle this pic.twitter.com/0MvS5URNVH Alba Road Team (@AlbaRoadTeam) May 29, 2024 Former professional Anna Shackley, who was forced to retire in April due to a cardiac arrhythmia, is set to remain in the sport as a directeur sportif with the Alba Road Team.With U23 National, European and World medals to her name, Scottish climber Shackley was forced to retire prematurely at the age of just 22 after being diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, when riding for SD Worx-Protime.Shackley will undertake the five-day UCI Sport Director course in Aigle, Switzerland this October with the aim of stepping into a full-time role as of 2025. The Alba Road Team is a womens Continental cycling squad based in Scotland.British rising star Anna Shackley forced to retire from professional cycling at 22 years oldLachlan Morton and Rosa Klser win Unbound 200 racesaskdjhfaksjdhkasdjfhkadsjfhkasdjfhkasfjhhdfaadfsjh LACHLAN MORTON YOU FREAKING LEGENDAJKSLDHFKJASDHFKJAHSDFKJAHDS LACHLAN WINS THE UNBOUND 200 EF Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) June 1, 2024 Ever-popular Australian Lachlan Morton (EF Education-EasyPost) added the Unbound Gravel to his palmars this weekend despite taking a wrong turn when chasing down the leading group. Morton won a two-man sprint against Chad Haga (PAS Racing) after 200 miles on the bike and over nine hours of racing.In the womens race, a larger nine-rider group would contest the victory, with Rosa Klser of Germany triumphing in her debut Unbound appearance after ten hours on the bike. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Valtteri Bottas (@valtteribottas) Canyon-SRAMs Tiffany Cromwell finished 12th while her partner, F1 driver Valtteri Bottas, finished second in his 30-39 age group in the shorter Unbound 100 event.National teams forming ahead of the OlympicsNational teams are beginning to take shape ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris, which run from 26th July to 11th August. Road cycling events including the mens and womens individual time-trials take place on 27th July, while the road races for the men and women take place on 3rd and 4th August respectively.Marianne Vos, Demi Vollering, Ellen van Dijk and Lorena Wiebes make up what looks to be an incredibly strong Netherlands road race team, with Vollering and Van Dijk competing in the time-trial too. Juliette Labous, Audrey-Cordon Ragot and Victoire Berteau will represent France, with vita Muzic not selected despite winning a stage and finishing fifth overall at the Vuelta Espaa Femenina last month.At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (which was postponed to 2021 due to Covid), Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria) soloed to a surprise victory in the womens road race ahead of Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) while Richard Carapaz (Ecuador) won the mens road race ahead of Wout van Aert (Belgium) and Tadej Pogaar (Slovenia). Carapaz has not been selected to defend his title, while Van Vleuten has now retired. Van Vleuten and Primo Rogli (Slovenia), meanwhile, were individual womens and mens time-trial gold medallists respectively.See you next week.The post Pro Log: Miguel ngel Lpez given four-year ban, Anna Shackley steps in Sports Director role after forced retirement, Unbound Gravel results and Olympics selections appeared first on Cyclist.