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
2010 Quick-Step season as close at the team came to any further victories. Their highest-placed rider in the final overall standings was De Weert, in 18th place at a deficit of just under 22 minutes to Tour champion Alberto Contador. For his part, Seeldraeyers was 134th, nearly three and a half hours off Contador's winning time. The squad finished seventh in the teams classification. 2010 Quick-Step season The 2010 season for began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event