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
Christmas in July "The Sorrows of Young Werther". Christmas features in the book, but July does not. In 1935, the National Recreation Association's journal "Recreation" described what a Christmas in July was like at a girl's camp, writing that "all mystery and wonder surround this annual event." The term, if not the exact concept, was given national attention with the release of the Hollywood movie comedy "Christmas in July" in 1940, written and directed by Preston Sturges. In the story, a man is fooled into believing he has won $25,000 in an advertising slogan contest. He buys presents for family, friends, and neighbors,