Cycling’s best men’s and women’s riders will turn their focus to the Ardennes this weekend, starting with Amstel Gold this Sunday - an event with a history of nail-biting finishes.
Taking riders through the Limburg region, with riders heading out from Maastricht and circling to the nearby Valkenburg, Amstel Gold seeks out the Netherlands’ biggest climbs to get the riders in the mood for the hilly Belgian races to come – and even briefly passing through Belgium mid-race – with the headline hill being the Cauberg.
The peloton reeled in the lead pair with less than a kilometre to go with the momentum of the chase helping eventual winner Marianne Vos to victory ahead of Demi Vollering and Annemiek Van Vleuten . Longo-Borghini finished the race in eighth place, while Niewiadoma came home in tenth. Wout van Aert edged Tom Pidcock in the tightest of finishes that initially left the cycling community split as to who had won the 2021 Amstel Gold.
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