The largest week of Belgian biking reaches it peak on Sunday 6 April on the Tour of Flanders, with the elite women and men as soon as once more tackling the cobbles of Flanders on a brutal day.
The lads begin in Bruges and end in Oudenaarde, whereas the ladies begin and end in Oudenaarde, simply south of Ghent. All of the well-known climbs are concerned, from the Muur van Geraardsbergen to the Oude Kwaremont. It is like a best hits of Belgian racing, the fruits of all of the motion from the warmup races.
This 12 months’s Tour of Flanders is the twenty second for girls, and the 109th for males, and is organised by Flanders Classics.
Each are WorldTour occasions, with star male riders together with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates-XRG), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek). In the meantime, Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes (each SD Worx-Protime), Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) and Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Crew ADQ) shall be current within the ladies’s race.
Under, Biking Weekly has compiled every thing you want to learn about broadcasters and dwell streams, so you possibly can watch the Tour of Flanders wherever you’re on this planet.
Fast information to watching the Tour of Flanders
The best way to watch the Tour of Flanders within the UK
Within the UK, the Tour of Flanders, like just about all professional biking, shall be proven on TV on TNT Sports activities and on-line on Discovery+ on Sunday April 6. Each platforms are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and require a subscription.
TV viewers, head to TNT Sports activities 1 for the boys’s race from 9am, and for the ladies’s race hop to TNT Sports activities 2 from 1.45pm.
On-line viewers, head to Discovery+, the place you may discover each races able to stream on the instances famous above.
Discovery+ prices £30.99 a month because the value rise one month in the past. TNT Sports activities can also be £30.99 a month, however is cheaper with sure TV packages.
The best way to watch the Tour of Flanders within the US and Canada
Flobikes is answerable for this 12 months’s Tour of Flanders protection in North America, as with nearly all Belgian races. Subscriptions value CA$39.99 a month in Canada, whereas within the US there’s a month-to-month price of $29.99, with large financial savings for long-term plans.
The Flobikes TV app is accessible on Roku, Fireplace TV, Chromecast and Apple TV, in addition to on iOS and Android.
Can I watch the Tour of Flanders without spending a dime?
Followers in Australia can watch the Tour of Flanders without spending a dime, as can these within the host nation of Belgium, and in France and the Netherlands too.
In Australia, the Tour of Flanders is a part of public broadcaster SBS’s portfolio of races, with dwell streaming out there on their free platform, SBS On Demand.
In Belgium, you possibly can watch Gent-Wevelgem without spending a dime because of VRT and its Sporza model – you possibly can watch on terrestrial TV, on VRT Max, or just on the Sporza web site.
In the meantime, in France it is on free-to-air tv on FranceTV, whereas within the Netherlands, it is on NOS by means of NPO Begin.
Protection is geo-restricted. To entry your ordinary streaming companies from overseas you may want a VPN – extra on that beneath.
The best way to watch the Tour of Flanders whereas overseas
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