This Sunday is the 58th edition of the Amstel Gold Race. First act of the Ardennes triptych, this one-day race takes place between Maastricht and Berg en Terblijt (Netherlands) The 174 runners present at the start will have to cover 253.6 km and survey the 33 mountains that will rise up before them.
Mathieu Van der Poel, Poulidor's grandson, is the big favorite to succeed Tadej Pogacar. Maxim Van Gils will be the leader of the Belgian team Lotto Dstny. Benoît Cosnefroy is one of the main outsiders after finishing seventh in Milan-Sanremo. He had lost by a narrow margin by finishing second behind the Polish Michal Kwiatowski, who finished ahead of a certain Van derpoel, at the Flèche Brantonne on Wednesday. The 24-year-old runner finished third last year.