Javier Moreno has been confirmed to be part of the new established team BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team in their first season.

Javier Moreno, age 32, joins BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team and he will be one of the best teammates for the leaders in the high mountain stages of the grand tours. The Spanish climber became professional in 2006 with the continental team Grupo Nicolás Mateos. He has raced for eleven years and for five different teams. Anyhow, his trajectory has been linked to Movistar for the last five years. He achieved seven victories, included the overall of three one-week races: Madrid, Castilla y León and Asturias. He was second in the overall of a World Tour competition: Tour Down Under.

Anyhow, Moreno has in his mind that the personal goals are not the individual results:

"I am good climber and I am good in short individual time trials too. I know that I can do good performances in one-week races. But I don't think that it is my only goal in a big team like BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team. I have a huge experience working for big leaders like Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde. And my feeling is that I can do the same work for Vincenzo Nibali and the other leaders of my new team.”

In this way, Moreno is really optimistic:

"My best performances are always in the first months of the season, January and February, but in the month of May too. So I always had a big motivation for the Giro. I never managed to do it in all my life until 2016. And this year I had an accident and broke my collarbone so now my motivation is the highest possible for the Giro in 2017. I really want to be there again and to support one of our leaders in the fight for the victory!”