Every year the second Sunday of April is reserved for Paris-Roubaix and the third Sunday for the Amstel Gold Race. In 2022, this tradition will be broken. Because the French presidential elections take place on Sunday, 10 April, the organisation of Paris-Roubaix asked to swap the dates.

Vos won last year's edition of the Amstel Gold Race. She beat Demi Vollering and Annemiek van Vleuten in the sprint. This year Vos will not participate to prepare herself optimally for Paris-Roubaix. "Marianne finished second in Paris-Roubaix last year. She has chosen to do some extra training to be well-rested and fit at the start in Denain next week", sports director Lieselot Decroix says.

This year's Amstel Gold Race is the 8th edition for women and the race has been part of the World Tour since 2017. The start of the classic is in Maastricht. The programme includes 128.5 kilometres of twists and turns. Those who think the Netherlands is flat have never cycled in South Limburg because the riders need to overcome nineteen climbs. The Cauberg is the most notorious. This hill (800 metres at 6.5%) has to be climbed four times, the last time at 1600 metres before the finish.

Before the riders take up this challenge, they will first have to cycle 72.8 kilometres through the hilly Limburg landscape. In this part of the race they will encounter ten climbs. Then they will come to a local lap of 18 kilometres, which they will complete three times. This local lap includes the Geulhemmerberg (1000 metres at 5%), Bemelerberg (900 metres at 5%) and Cauberg. The finish is at the same location as the men's finish at about one and a half kilometres past the top of the Cauberg, at the Rijksweg in Vilt.

Sunday, Team Jumbo-Visma appears at the start with Coryn Labecki, Anna Henderson, Riejanne Markus, Karlijn Swinkels, Teuntje Beekhuis and Anouska Koster.
"The plan is to race as we did before the Tour of Flanders", Decroix said. "We will attack and make sure we are always in front. We will follow up on breakaways and the riders will motivate each other to be sharp. We'll have Coryn ready to finish it off if it comes down to a sprint."

The Amstel Gold Race for women starts at 10.35 am. The finish is expected between two and a quarter past two.