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Miguel Ángel López was not able to defend his third place in the general classification of the Tour de France in Saturday’s time trial and that is why he did not he will have the luxury of being on the podium at the end of the race in Paris.
However, the fact of being one of the six best runners in the entire competition means that the popular ‘Superman’ is left with one of the highest economic prizes of all those stipulated by the organization for this year. For finishing sixth in the Tour, López will receive 23,000 euros, a figure that represents a little more than 100 million Colombian pesos.
However, it is necessary to clarify that cycling is they usually add up in a common fund all the earnings of the cyclists of each team during the 21 stages of the race to finally distribute them equally among all the members.
For example, to the 23,000 euros of López for being fourth are added the 11,000 that corresponded to him for winning stage 17 last Wednesday and another 11,000 for his teammate Alexsey Lutsenko’s victory on stage 6.
Those are just some of the most significant amounts that the Astana team has in his pocket, in addition to many others provided by the organization of the race by the location of the cyclists in each of the stages, among others. Without a doubt, the Kazakh team was one of the highest earners from this competition.
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