Quick-Step Floors the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix. In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he
SMS Leopard duration of the conflict. After Austria-Hungary's defeat, "Leopard" was ceded to Britain as a war prize and sold to ship breakers in Italy in 1920. "Leopard" was long overall, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of two-cylinder vertical compound steam engines. On trials, "Leopard" reached a speed of from . Her crew numbered 186 officers and men. The ship was armed with two 35-caliber (cal.) guns manufactured by Krupp in single mounts. These were supported by a battery of four quick-firing guns and six 47 mm