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
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