2024 Gran Fondo World Tour® GRAVEL Series

BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team successfully finished their first Training Camp

BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team yesterday left Porec, Croatia and Valamar Diamant Hotel 4* in which all of our team members had successfully conducted its first training camp and the first official presentation

Saturday 29th October – More than seventy people, including cyclists, management, coaches, technicians, nutritionists, doctors, sports directors and other team professionals stayed in Valamar Diamant Hotel for four days, during which we had the first team meeting among ourselves, a series of organizational meetings and meeting with equipment manufacturers and representatives of the sponsors and suppliers.

The first press conference was held on Wednesday. The premiere team presentation to the world in public with attendance of numerous international press, sports and cycling journalists like Eurosport, RTV Slovenia, HTV – Croatian national TV, journalists from Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Nederlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain.

Within four days in Porec our team had a grueling program of lectures, equipment, introducings and testings. The programme of the Training Camp was intensive, but all team members definately enjoyed the exquisite hotel services, hospitality, great food adjusted to our athletes that Valamar Diamant Hotel offers. The hotel offers professional sports services and facilities, a beautiful SPA area with pool and modern hotel gym. Complete service for cyclicts was enabled to our and MERIDAs mechanics. That area was adjusted for a peaceful work and focus to each of the BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team riders. In hotel they kept in mind to enable us also safe bike storage.

Outdoor and indoor tennis courts were suitable for few interesting tennis matches between some of our riders. There were even outstanding football and basketball matches too between overall talented team members.

It was just a great get together Training Camp held on the very right place. For the reason of such tremendous, postseason activities, the team members made several photo sessions at this great hotel. All our activities were based on positive energy with a view forward to an upcoming, and exciting season 2017.

At the first Training Camp in Porec, BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team cyclists have shown their cycling skills on a short bike route with journalist, press crews, sponsors and suppliers on a the beautiful, mild and sunny Thursday. It was a route to the to close so called " Istrian Agritourism Jadruhi" property of the local family Simonovic, with a long tradition of family farms and catering business. They offered us various, authentic and traditional dishes, prepared according to traditional recipes, produced at their own agritourism.

Cyclists left Porec full of enthusiam of the fact that the team is prepared. And all of them hardly wait to come back to Istria for the first real training on the roads of Istria.

BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team successfully finished their first Training Camp