Kwiatkowski upsets favorites to win Amstel Gold Race (Reuters)
World champion Michal Kwiatkowski of Poland outgunned the favorites to win the Amstel Gold Race, a 258km hilly one-day classic race, on Sunday. He beat Spain’s Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), one of the specialists of the Ardennes classics, which continue on Wednesday with La Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege next Sunday in Belgium. Australian Michael Matthews (Orica Green-EDGE), widely tipped to win should the race be decided in a sprint, took third place. I managed to keep a bit of energy for the final sprint,” said Kwiatkowski, whose only previous win this season came in the prologue of the Paris-Nice stage race last month.