Quick-Step Floors team signed Davide Martinelli for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. On the second rest day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced a change to one of their main sponsors from 2015 onwards for 3 season. Omega Pharma will be exchanged for one of its subsidiaries, Etixx, giving a new team name: Etixx–Quick-Step. Etixx is a brand of supplements and nutrition products by Omega Pharma (the previous title sponsor), while Quick-Step is a manufacturer of laminate flooring. On the eve of the 2015 Tour of Flanders Quickstep confirmed their sponsorship of the team would be extended to the
Amur leopard cold climate and snow. Leopards cross between Russia, China, and North Korea across the Tumen River despite a high and long wire fence marking the boundary. The first camera-trap image of an Amur leopard in northeastern China was taken in 2010 in Hunchun National Nature Reserve located in the Changbai Mountains in Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces. This habitat consists of broadleaved conifer and Korean pine forests at altitudes of , where annual average temperature is about . In this area, leopards were repeatedly photographed by camera traps set up between January 2013 and July 2014 covering up to . Leopard