Saturday afternoon a delegation of CQranking rewarded the 2013 CQ Team trophy to OmegaPharma-QuickStep. Team manager Patrick Lefevere and PR-manager Alessandro Tegner received us in the dinner room of the beautiful hotel Kasteel Pietersheim in Lanaken, just across the Belgian border near Maastricht.

CQ’s Mark Vanderwegen handed over the trophy to Lefevere and 6 OPQS-riders, amongst them Michal Kwiatkowski and Tony Martin. Both riders contributed largely to the victory of their team in 2013, which was a very close call with runner-up Sky only about 100 points behind, just before 3rd ranked Movistar.

© Philip van der Ploeg

© Philip van der Ploeg

© Philip van der Ploeg