What the athletes wanted, and what they got, was a harder Amstel Gold Race. This Women's World Tour event in 2022 was only 128.5 km with 19 climbs. Race director, former world champion and former Olympic champion Leontien van Moorsel announced that two more climbs and 28 km had been added at the request of the athletes.

"It certainly fits with the development of women's cycling," van Moorsel said, according to Wielerfritz. 'We were a little behind the rest of the World Tour races. There's more climbing distance and more loops at the end." It will be a very epic and tough race.

The loop to Sittard-Geleen will be added early in the race, and riders will tackle the final 18km circuit, which includes the Goal Hemmerberg, Bemmerberg, and Cauberg, four times instead of three. The increased distance will bring the total climbing distance to 1,700 meters and the number of climbs to 21.

The average distance of the 2022 Women's World Tour one-day races was 142.4 km, with Bourges des Pannes being the longest at 162.8 km and Paris-Roubaix the shortest at 124.7 km. Only the Roubaix and Postnord-Volgorda road races were shorter than last year's Amstel Gold Race. The longer 2023 event will be similar in length to the Tour de Flanders and Ghent-Wevelgem.

Men's one-day races can exceed 300 km, as in Milan-San Remo, but the UCI has set a maximum of 160 km for women's road races with few exceptions; in 2020, the Giro d'Italia Donne used a 170 km route for stage 4. Riders were divided on whether longer stages were better.

Ashley Moolman-Pasio did not think the way the stage was raced would change. Cecily Uttrup-Ludwig, on the other hand, praised the organizers' challenge and said, "Finally, we are being taken seriously." She said, "They don't think that if you run a long stage, your uterus will fall off."

The Amstel Gold Race is one that world champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) has not won, but van Moesel said the long course was not made just for her." We see that the athletes want this and that they can do it."

Van Vleuten has raced five times in Amstel, finishing second in 2019 behind Kasia Niewiadoma and third in 2021 behind Marianne Vos and Demi Vollering. 2023 will be her last season, and Van Moesel said that her last challenge for the title Van Moorsel hopes she will return for one last shot at the title. I would be happy if Annemiek could take this competition into her own hands in her last year," van Moorsel said. As an organization, we shouldn't be picky, but we would love to."[17