Amstel Gold Race

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"

Results from the 2013 Amstel Gold Race

A well-timed attack gives Kreuziger all the edge he needs to win the Ardennes opener

Sport directors think the revised Amstel course may trigger more aggressive racing

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World champion takes good sensation out of Brabantse Pijl and enjoys non-favorite status for Ardennes opener

Slovak champion targets victory on the Cauberg after missing out at the Amstel Gold Race one year ago

Spanish team has one of the deepest squads entering the trio of races, starting with Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

Updates to the course for the 48th Amstel Gold Race will likely introduce a more hectic finale on Sunday

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More than any others, these seven climbs hold the key to glory in the hilly classics set to open Sunday in Maastricht, Netherlands

Italian continues training after confrontation with driver and says he'll be ready for Sunday's Ardennes opener

IAM Cycling rider hit by car in training, suffers open fracture of left index finger

Garmin-Sharp is building toward the first grand tour of the season, which starts May 4 in Naples