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
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