Tour de Romandie (26 April-1 May) is an important bridge between the Ardenne classics and the Giro d'Italia. LAMPRE-MERIDA's goal is to obtain a good result in the Swiss race and the line-up for the competition will be of a high level of quality.

It will include Matteo Bono, Davide Cimolai, Mario Costa, Rui Costa, Tsgabu Grmay, Louis Meintjes, Matej Mohoric and Jan Polanc.

Five riders (Bono, Mario Costa, Rui Costa, Meintjes and Polanc) will reach Switzerland directly from Liege after having raced LaDoyenne and they'll be joined by pure climber Grmay, by sprinter Cimolai (who has won one race this season: one stage in the Vola a Catalunya) and by the talented Mohoric whose condition is getting better and better after the injury he suffered at the beginning of the year.

"Every time Rui Costa is at the start of a race, his goal is for sure to be in the top positions of the final classification and this will be his purpose for the Tour de Romandie too," sports director Pedrazzini explained. "He'll receive the support by a team in which everybody has talent. 

In the sprints, Cimolai will try to repeat the top performance which gave him the victory in a stage of the Vuelta a Catalunya. It will also be very interesting to evaluate which kind of results Meintjes will be able to compete for."