2010 Quick-Step season 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 in the ProTour. The team looks to remain as one of the world's foremost in the spring classics. Its ridership is mostly unchanged from 2009, in spite of an offseason attempt to sign reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. Ages as of January 1, 2010. After beginning their season at the Tour Down Under with no victories, Quick Step then
Sport in Belgium 1999 and Philippe Gilbert in 2011. Among the best-known road races in Belgium are two out of the five monuments of cycling: the Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Other classic one day races in Belgium include La Flèche Wallonne, E3 Harelbeke and Gent–Wevelgem, all part of the UCI World Tour, as well as Paris–Brussels, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Grand Prix de Wallonie and Dwars door Vlaanderen. The best-known stage-races in Belgium are the Tour of Benelux, created in 2005, and the Tour of Belgium. Belgium has currently two professional cycling teams competing in the UCI ProTour: Etixx-Quick Step and Lotto-Soudal.