2010 Quick-Step season entered the Tour of Qatar with two-time defending champion Boonen leading their squad. Boonen won two stages in the race, but a two-man breakaway in the race's second stage proved critical, as it afforded Wouter Mol and Geert Steurs the top two steps on the podium by more than a minute over the rest of the field. Boonen finished third overall. Quick Step came to the Giro with a squad headed by Cataldo. Seeldraeyers, who had won the youth classification in the 2009 Giro d'Italia, was kept off the squad in favor of the Tour de France. Weylandt was included
Quick time event and responding every few minutes to allow it to continue. An improvement to the QTE mechanic was flashing the buttons that need to be pressed on the screen, which appeared in the laserdisc games "Super Don Quix-ote" (Universal, 1984), "Ninja Hayate" (Taito, 1984), "Time Gal" (Taito, 1985) and "Road Blaster". "Die Hard Arcade" (Sega, 1996), "" and most notably "Shenmue" (Sega, 1999) for the Dreamcast introduced QTEs in the modern form of cut scene interludes in an otherwise more interactive game. "Shenmue"s director Yu Suzuki is credited with coining the phrase "Quick Time Event", which were included in the game