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Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep at the sign in view thumbnail gallery Elite team heads to Slovakia for team building Omega Pharma-QuickStep is to launch a feeder team at Continental level in 2013. The team will operate under the banner of Etixx, a sports supplements company owned by Omega Pharma. While the precise composition of the team [...]
Gianni Meersman won the sprint for second. view thumbnail gallery Belgian signs for two seasons After a breakthrough season with the Lotto Belisol team, Gianni Meersman has been recruited to the rival Belgian squad Omega Pharma-Quickstep for two seasons. Meersman spent his espoir years in the Quickstep feeder team Beveren 2000, but when he was [...]
Belgian champion Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) was a pre-race favorite at the Grand Prix de Wallonie. view thumbnail gallery Omega Pharma-QuickStep rider ready to start training after vacation Tom Boonen is ready to get begin training for the 2013 season. The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider said he “filled his batteries” with a vacation in Mauritius [...]
Gerald Ciolek put a lot of thought into a well-considered design scheme view thumbnail gallery Moves from OmegaPharma QuickStep At 26 Gerald Ciolek is hoping to reignite his career with a move to Team MTN-Qhubeka. The sprinter signed for the first African Pro Continental team after two seasons at Omega Pharma QuickStep and he is [...]
For the first time in his career Tom Boonen gets to raise his arms aloft as Paris-Brussels champion. view thumbnail gallery Admits it will be hard to repeat 2012 dominance Wilfried Peeters expects Omega Pharma QuickStep to face sterner opposition in next season’s spring Classics campaign with Fabian Cancellara and Peter Sagan as two of [...]
Irish national champion Matt Brammeier (HTC-Highroad) view thumbnail gallery Irish champion on WorldTour points and leaving Omega Pharma-QuickStep Cycling can be a cruel business, as Matt Brammeier discovered in mid-September. Scanning the morning newspapers, the Irish champion came across an article outlining Omega Pharma-QuickStep’s plans for 2013, only to read that his services would not [...]
Mark Cavendish won his first ever Grand Tour stage during the 2008 Giro d’Italia. view thumbnail gallery Persistence pays off as Belgian tracks rider’s career Patrick Lefevere’s persistence finally paid off when he landed the signing of Mark Cavendish and according to the Omega Pharma-QuickStep boss he has been keeping close tabs on the sprinter’s [...]
Carlos Verona (Spain) appears to be enjoying himself in the early break. view thumbnail gallery Young Spaniard ready for WorldTour Soon to be 20-year-old Carlos Verona Quintanilla will move from the Continental ranks to Omega Pharma – QuickStep for the coming season. The young Spaniard has spent the past two seasons riding for the Burgos [...]
Rolf Aldag chats at the start. view thumbnail gallery Former HTC manager becomes sports and development manager Next year won’t be the first that Rolf Aldag has worked inside the Omega Pharma-QuickStep team. As technical advisor throughout 2012, Aldag was, among other things, a key figure in parts of Tom Boonen’s build-up to the Classics [...]
One lucky reader will win a Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL4 frameset, autographed by the Omega Pharma-Quickstep team view thumbnail gallery One lucky reader will win a Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL4 frameset It’s here again…the 2012 Cyclingnews reader poll in now online. Every year, we give you the chance to pick the riders, teams, races, moments [...]
