David and Javier are diabetic, but they are also professional cyclists.Javier was running in a professional team when he was diagnosed with diabetes and did not want to leave him when he received the news.Now runs in Team Novo Nordisk, a team formed exclusively by professional cyclists.
Among other objectives, says David, it is about raising awareness of a disease considered as an epidemic in our country for its great incidence, as more than 5 million Spaniards suffer (372 million people worldwide).
This team is the only professional team in the world composed in its entirety by athletes with diabetes.Among its 17 intentants, from 10 countries, are the Spaniards Javier Megías and David Lozano.
The objectives of Team Novo Nordisk are to serve as an example of how, with appropriate monitoring and diet, people with diabetes can perform any activity, however demanding it is physically, as well as encourage sports in general, which helps preventThis disease and to control it among those who already suffer from it.
At the moment they have participated in the last edition of the Cycling Tour to Andalusia.Return, turn and tour.