Lampre-Merida are heading to the Ardennes where they'll get involved in three WorldTour events: Amstel Gold Race (the Netherlands, Sunday 19th April), Fleche Wallone (Belgium, Wednesday 22th April) and Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Belgium, Sunday 26th April).

For the Dutch race, eight riders were selected to wear the blue-fuchsia-green jerseys: Matteo Bono, Valerio Conti, Rui Costa, Kristijan Durasek, Manuele Mori, Jan Polanc, Diego Ulissi and Rafael Valls. In the Belgian races, the Colombian climber Josè Serpa will take the place of Durasek.

Most of the attention of the opponents will be towards Rui Costa, but the Portuguese rider won't be the only competitive rider in the team. Valls had an outstanding first part of the season (stage and overall victory in Tour of Oman, 8th places in Paris-Nice and in Volta a Catalunya), Polanc demonstatedhis amazing condition in Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Ulissi is full of energy and he wants to exploit the experience he got in the past participations in these races.

Young Conti is joined by the experience of Mori and Bono (in 2014, Bono was a protagonist in a breakaway which allowed him to pass the summit of the Redoute as the lone leader) and the climbing skills of Serpa and Durasek.