Philippe Gilbert (Omega-Pharma Lotto) said he is ready for any outcome in the finale of Sunday's Amstel Gold Race and shrugged off the idea that his rivals could stop him winning one of the three Ardennes Classics just as Fabian Cancellara (Leopard Trek) was closely marked and then outmaneuvered in the cobbled classics.
Gilbert won the Amstel Gold Race last year, finished sixth in Fleche-Wallonne and was third in Liege-Bastogne-Liege. He again opted to miss Paris-Roubaix this spring to focus on the Ardennes classics, which cover many of his training roads in the French speaking Wallonne region of Belgium.