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Etixx-Quick Step (''UCI Team Code:'' EQS) is a Belgian UCI World Tour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke, Tom Steels, Brian Holm, Rolf Aldag and Jan Schaffrath. Etixx is a Czech producer of supplements and nutrition products, while Quick Step is a manufacturer of laminate flooring. ==History== The team was created as Quick Step-Davitamon in 2003 from staff and riders of Domo-Farm Frites and Mapei-Quick Step when the latter disbanded after nine years in the sport. Paolo Bettini won the UCI Road World Cup in 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics road title in 2004. In the 2005 UCI ProTour season, renamed Quick Step-Innergetic, the team won a large number of classics: Tom Boonen won Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, Filippo Pozzato the HEW Cyclassics, and Paolo Bettini the Züri-Metzgete and the Giro di Lombardia. In late 2005 Tom Boonen won the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, where Michael Rogers won the time-trial. In 2006 Boonen retained the Tour of Flanders and held the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de France during stage 3–6, and Filippo Pozzato won 2006 Milan – San Remo. Paolo Bettini won the world championship in Salzburg and retained his Giro di Lombardia crown. In 2007 Tom Boonen won the points classification in the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix. In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he admitted to doping in a sworn affidavit to USADA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tygart: Code of silence claimed Leipheimer )〕 This was despite the team statement that "commended" Leipheimer for his "open cooperation" in the USADA investigation that exposed Lance Armstrong long term cheating in cycling via doping. The team's action was described by USADA head Travis Tygart as "The classic Omertà move right? Actions speak louder than words. On the one hand, they say they congratulate him on coming forward, () their action terminating him for being truthful speaks a lot louder than their words." CyclingNews reported in the same article that the team’s claim to have only recently learned of Leipheimer’s past doping was according to Tygart "absolutely not true...Leipheimer and a USADA attorney told the team months ago of the investigation, and of Leipheimer’s role". Cyclingnews noted that Omega Pharma general manager Patrick Lefevere "had admitted in 2007 to having used doping products, including amphetamines, during his own career". Lefevere is still CEO of Etixx as of September 2015. On 17 July 2014, the team announced that Iljo Keisse had been given a 2-year contract extension〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Two-year extension for Keisse at Omega Pharma-Quick Step )〕 On the second rest day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced a change to one of their main sponsors from 2015 onwards for 3 season. Omega Pharma will be exchanged for one of its subsidiaries, Etixx, giving a new team name: Etixx-Quickstep.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Omega Pharma-QuickStep to become Etixx-QuickStep from 2015 )〕 Further, Tony Martin confirmed via his Twitter account that he had signed a 2-year contract extension.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tony Martin on Twitter )〕 On 19 August the team announced that Pieter Serry had signed a 2-year contract extension,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home - Etixx - Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team )〕 on 27 August the team announced the signing of Maxime Bouet on a 2-year deal〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maxime Bouet signs for Omega Pharma-QuickStep )〕 and on September 1 the team announced the signing of David de la Cruz on a 2-year contract.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transfers: Omega Pharma–QuickStep signs David de la Cruz )〕 In 2014 Michał Kwiatkowski won a rainbow jersey in 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race in Ponferrada, Spain. In February 2015, the team announced it had signed 2015 UCI World Omnium champion, Fernando Gaviria, and fellow Colombian, Rodrigo Contreras, on two-year deals set to commence at the start of the 2016 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gaviria signs two-year deal with Etixx-QuickStep )〕 On the eve of the 2015 Tour of Flanders Quickstep confirmed their sponsorship of the team would be extended to the end of the 2017 season.〔http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/quick-step-extends-sponsorship-for-two-years〕 In August 2015, the team signed Davide Martinelli for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.〔http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Davide_Martinelli〕 In September 2015, the team announced that supermarket chain Lidl would sponsor the team, becoming the teams "Fresh food supplier".〔http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lidl-to-sponsor-etixx-quickstep-in-2016-and-2017/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Etixx-Quick Step」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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