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Robert Gesink (Rabobank) and Karsten Kroon (BMC) will be out to end a nine-year spell without a Dutch winner at the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, but the odds look stacked against them as the best hilly classics riders in the peloton begin the week of the hilly Ardennes classics at the race. Erik Dekker was the last Dutchman to raise the huge glass of beer awarded to the winner back in 2001 and Dutch riders have only won 17 of the 44 editions of the biggest one-day race in the Netherlands. Kroon lives ...
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Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) wins the Amstel Gold Race.
- Andy Schleck leads his brother and Saxo Bank teammate Fränk on a climb.
- La Fléche Wallonne winner Cadel Evans (BMC)
- Cadel Evans (BMC) on the podium)
- Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) took second in the Amstel Gold Race.
- Chris Horner (Radioshack) and Karsten Kroon (BMC) rolled in for the top 10
- Cadel Evans (BMC) rode aggressively but could manage only 13th
- Philip Deignan (Cervélo TestTeam) celebrates his Vuelta stage win
- Helicopters are a fixture of bike races, providing overhead camera shots and often relaying signals from ground cameras for broadcast.
- Kim Kirchen (Katusha)
- Eric Dekker was the last Dutch winner of the Amstel Gold Race in 2001 when he beat Lance Armstrong.
- Albert Timmer (Skil - Shimano) lost nearly nine minutes.
- Filippo Pozzato (Team Katusha) took his time, finishing more than 10 minutes down.
- Maxime Vantomme (Team Katusha) leads the peloton.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) on the Mur.
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