Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team has been announced as a participant in the 2013 AMGEN Tour of California, along with 15 other top tier cycling teams.
AMGEN Tour of California begins on May 12th and goes until the 19th, and the course route is in the opposite direction as it was the prior year. In 2012, the stage race traveled from Northern California to Southern California. The eighth edition, in 2013, will travel from Southern California and end in Santa Rosa.
For more information, click on a Cyclingnews article about the announcement here.