Amstel Gold Race

Alejandro Valverde dominates the Ardennes classics, but he has yet to win Amstel Gold Race, a peculiar hole in his palmares.

Peter Sagan will end his spring classics campaign this weekend at Amstel Gold Race.

After winning Paris-Roubaix, Peter Sagan rolls on at the hilly Amstel Gold Race in the Netherlands.

We talk about how Amstel's new finish led to exciting race action, why Boels is back, and America's most promising young rider.

Did Kwiatkowski forget the lesson he learned at Sanremo? Has Van Avermaet found the limit of his abilities? How about that Amstel route?

Belgian champ Philippe Gilbert picks up fourth Amstel Gold win of his career and second Spring Classic since winning Flanders two weeks ago.

Belgian Philippe Gilbert outsprinted 2015 winner Michal Kwiatkowski of Poland to capture his fourth Amstel Gold win in a tactical finale.

CCC Sprandi Polkowice team loses 18 bikes to burglary only days before its only WorldTour classic race of the spring season.

Can a new, Cauberg-free finale spice up the oft-predictable Amstel Gold on Sunday? The list of favorites just got a lot longer.

The Ardennes classics will highlight the peloton's toughest climbers. Here are 10 top riders to watch.

Amstel Gold Race still has its great title sponsor (a brewery!), but the route is way different this year. Ardennes week is upon us.

In cycling's modern era, the Ardennes classics are won with a combination of supreme endurance, climbing talent, and above all, patience.

Alex Howes didn't expect to win the KOM jersey at Pais Vasco, but it is a good sign ahead of his favorite Ardennes race, Amstel Gold.

Amstel Gold Race cut out the last Cauberg climb, and Roubaix added more cobbles. Do we love it? Do we hate it?

Amstel Gold Race will forgo a final climb of the Cauberg, a move that race organizers hope will create a more unpredictable finale.

For the first time in 14 years, the pro women’s peloton will tackle the Amstel Gold Race next season

BrakeThrough Media captures the beauty and drama of Ardennes week, the final three races of the spring classics.

Americans have a noticeable presence in the Ardennes, with Howes, Warbasse, and Reijnen riding into Amstel and Flèche breaks.

The Ardennes classics demand perfect positioning, brilliant climbing form, and smart tactics. Here are 10 men who could win big in April.

American Alex Howes is riding on good form after a day in the breakaway at Amstel Gold Race, his favorite Ardennes classic.

Chad Haga is making up for lost time, gutting out tough races, finishing well behind the winners to build fitness and his mental resolve.

Fabio Felline was out of Amstel Gold Race before it even started Sunday after flipping over the handlebars and fracturing his nose and skull.

Less than a month after losing teammate Antoine Demoitié in a crash at Gent-Wevelgem, Enrico Gasparotto takes the win at the Amstel Gold Race

Enrico Gasparotto wins the Amstel Gold Race ahead of Michael Valgren and Sonny Colbrelli

34-year-old Enrico Gasparotto delivers a big win for Wanty – Groupe Gobert at Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

The Amstel Gold Race is the first major "Ardennes" classic — our expert editors pick the top contenders for this hilly spring showdown.

Sunday's opening race of the Ardennes classics features 34 climbs that add up to more than 12,000 feet of vertical.

Three-time Amstel champ Gilbert will race despite broken finger and controversy surround an altercation with a driver,

He seems to be getting better with age, but Valverde's Liege win, writes Andrew Hood, brings back talk of his dark history

The Netherlands' Limburg province is alive with spirited fans, racing action, and beautiful weather, as the world champion delivers big win

The Italian finishes 1:20 behind winner Michal Kwiatkowski in Sunday's Ardennes classic

Valverde registers his third career Amstel Gold Race podium to start Ardennes week

As expected, Amstel Gold's hilly parcours through the Netherlands delivered a stunning finale on the legendary Cauberg hill

The rainbow curse is broken. Kwiatkowski out-sprints a select group after blasting up the Cauberg in the finale of Amstel Gold

The reigning world champion takes his first win in the rainbow jersey in a reduced sprint ahead of Alejandro Valverde and Michael Matthews.

Dozens of favorites line up for Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, where a string of climbs and narrow roads makes for a tense day of racing

The reigning world champion wants to notch his first win of the year in the rainbow jersey

The riders from LottoNL-Jumbo talk about how special it is to ride in front of Dutch fans in a Dutch WorldTour race, the Amstel Gold Race

Roman Kreuziger will face the CAS on June 10, but until then is free to ride as one of Tinkoff-Saxo's protected riders

MTN-Qhubeka, Cult Energy, CCC Polkowice, Nippo-Vini Fantini, and Bardiani-CSF invited to Amstel Gold Race

Simon Gerrans’ victory in Liège-Bastogne-Liège capped a spring classics season that was wide open and unpredictable in the peloton

The BMC rider triumphed in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race but finished 10th in Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne

Philippe Gilbert rediscovers his race-winning legs with a win to kick off Ardennes week and BrakeThrough Media captures the action inside and around the race

Andy Schleck and Joaquim Rodriguez both abandoned Sunday’s race after a hard fall

For the third time in four years, Simon Gerrans finished third in the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday

The Ardennes classics serve up the full package of thinking man's races, where it's game on from start to finish and one miscue ends it all

Photos from the 49th running of the Amstel Gold Race

A different approach to the season is paying dividends for the young Polish champion, who says he's still learning his trade

The reigning Liège-Bastogne-Liège champion found himself sidelined by knee pain at the Amstel Gold Race

Results from the 2014 Amstel Gold Race

After a winter of training and sacrifices, a resurgent Gilbert wins his third Amstel Gold race with a massive attack on the final ascent

Rodriguez was in hospital, complaining of dizziness, while Schleck continued briefly before abandoning

The start list for the 2014 Amstel Gold Race

Gilbert won Brabantse Pijl just days ago, a tilt of momentum into Ardennes week. But he doesn't want to be thought of as the man to beat

Omega Pharma is traditionally thought of as a cobbled classics team, but this year the Ardennes may show another side to the Belgian squad

The Orica-GreenEdge rider recently earned two wins and a runner-up ahead of Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race

The cobbled classics are over and the time for the climbers has arrived with Sunday's Ardennes-opening Dutch classic

Belgian former world champion gets his fifth victory since his remarkable 2011 season, and just in time for his favorite races

The Amstel Gold Race is the most important race in The Netherlands, but a Dutchman hasn't won since 2001. Bauke Mollema hopes to change that

From sprints in downtown Maastricht to climbers' showdowns on the Cauberg, look back at the last 17 years of the Dutch classic

The Belkin rider failed to finish last week's Tour of the Basque Country

With the "Queen of the Classics" on Sunday, download our new e-book to find some of our most compelling classics-related stories

Simon Gerrans isn't forgetting Milano-Sanremo, but admits the Ardennes suit him better than the sprinter-friendly course to open the spring classics

The big Swiss will cast a wide loop once more in 2014, and may add the Ardennes classics and the hour record to his already heavy program

All three spring races will continue at least through 2016

Fabian Cancellara and a slew of first-time winners came out on top in the classics, but who didn't?

Cannondale rider won Strade Bianche in March but has struggled since then

Joaquim Rodríguez crashed hard on his left leg during Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

BrakeThrough Media provides a unique look at the 2013 Amstel Gold Race

Czech's win resurfaces questions over links to Ferrari, Riis' links to Fuentes

Cannondale standout will race in the Amgen Tour of California, and later the USA Pro Challenge

The 2013 classics campaign has not been fruitful for the U.S.-based squad

Tinkering with the course didn't make the Amstel Gold any more or less exciting. It was the riders who dictated the action

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"Purito" went to a local hospital with heavy bruising, but exams confirmed there were no broken bones

The world champion says he's coming into top form in time for his main goal of the spring season

The Aussie plans to skip Flèche Wallonne and return for a run at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

It's a fiery finish to a hot day in the saddle at the 2013 Amstel Gold Race

Heat proved the undoing of the young Slovak, who said that on the last climb, "I couldn't get out of the saddle"