How to Watch the Spring Classic Live Streaming

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How to Watch the Spring Classic Live Streaming

The Spring 2022 Classic is underway. If you're looking for ways to watch the Classics over the next month, we've put together a handy Classics live stream guide.

A series of one-day races in Belgium, France, and Italy in March and April will bring four monuments throughout the spring: the Milan-San Remo, Tour de Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

The Belgian spring classics are well underway following the Bruges des Pannes Classic and the E3 Saxo Bank Classic: on Sunday, March 27, the men's and women's peloton will take on Ghent-Wevelgem and the Ghent-Wevelgem women's Kemmelberg.

Cycling News will bring you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race. Watch the Spring Classic via live stream from wherever you are using ExpressVPN (opens in a new tab).

The women's race will feature two attempts at the famous cobbled Kemmelberg climb and two attempts at the Scherpenberg and Baneberg climbs during the 159-km race.

The men will climb the Kemmelberg three times and the Scherpenberg and Baneberg twice.

With 35 km of flat roads, the race is often a sprint, although small groups or solo riders can win.

Men's schedule Start - 10:50 (09:50 CET, 05:50 EST), Finish - 16:57 (15:57 CET, 11:57 EST), Sunday, March 27.

Women's schedule: start - 13:50 (12:50 GMT, 08:50 EST), finish - 18:11 (17:11 GMT, 13:11 EST), Sunday, March 27.

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Ghent-Wevelgem will be broadcast across Europe on Eurosport (opens in new tab) and Discovery+ (opens in new tab); Eurosport Player subscription is £6.99/$9.15/month, 12-month pass is £59.99/78 Discovery+" also offers the same coverage for the same price.

In the UK, Europe, and some other regions, the race is broadcast on GCN+ (opens in new tab), with a one-year subscription fee of £39.99.

In the United States, Australia, and Canada, the races are broadcast on Flobikes (opens in new tab); a one-year subscription costs $150 in the US and $209.99 in Canada)

Local Belgian broadcasters RTBF (opens in new tab) and Sporza Sporza (open in new tab) will also broadcast the race.

We will continue to update our "How to Watch" guide with other broadcasters to remember over the next month, including NBC Sports (opens in new tab) via Peacock ($4.99/month in the US) during the Spring Classic season.

If you don't have cable, you can watch NBC Sports via SlingTV (opens in new tab) ($35/month, $10 off first month) or FuboTV (opens in new tab) ($64.99/month) (both services also offer free trials) via Smart TV, or other NBC Sports over IP via a smart device, or you can also access NBC Sports over IP via a smart device.

European spring classic broadcasts include Rai Sport (open in new tab) (Italy), France TV (open in new tab), L'Equipe TV (open in new tab) (France), NOS (Netherlands), EITB (open in new tab) (Basque Country), RTVE (open in new tab) (Spain).

If you live outside the broadcast area or are out of the country on vacation and the live stream is geographically restricted, you can access it via a "virtual private network" for your laptop, tablet, or cell phone, or via VPN, simulating being in your home country, This can be circumvented.

Our sister site TechRadar has tested hundreds of VPNs and recommends the number one VPN currently available as Express VPN. ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) allows you to watch on many devices at once, including Smart TV, Fire TV Stick, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, and tablet.

Most teams will come equipped with multiple options, as the race could be a sprint finish or a small group of attackers.

In the men's race, Jumbo Visma leads the pack, along with champion Wout Van Aert, Christophe Laporte, and Tige Bennaut. Quick Step Alphavinil has sprinter Fabio Jacobsen and classics Florian Senechal, Yves Lampert, and Kasper Asgreen, while Lotto Soudal has Victor Campenaerts and Florian Vermersch and sprinter Arnaud De Lier.

Other diverse teams include.

Other diverse trios include Ineos Grenadier's Dylan Van Barre, Honatan Narvaez, and Filippo Ganna; Trek Segafredo's Jasper Steiven, Quinn Simons, and Mads Pedersen; Total Energies' Peter Sagan, Niki Terpstra, and Anthony Turgis, among others.

Other notables include Biniam Girmay, Alexander Kristof (Intermarche Wanty-Gaubert), Greg Van Avermaat, Oliver Naessen (AG2R Citroen), Sam Bennett, and Nils Pollitt (Beulah Hansgrohe), Stefan Kühn, Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ), Sepp Vanmarcke (Israel Premier Tech), Dylan Groenewegen (Bike Exchange Jayco), John Degenkolb, Cees Bor (Team DSM), Pascal Ackermann, Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates), Tim Mellier, and Yasper Philipsen (Alpexin Phoenix).

In the women's competition, 2021 winner Marianne Voss (Jumbo-Visma) returns to defend her title with teammates Anna Henderson and Colin Labecki. World champion Elisa Balsamo will lead a strong Trek-Segafredo team that includes Elisa Longo Borghini and Ellen van Dijk.

Others include Lotte Kopecky, Chantal van den Broeck-Blark (SD Works), Shari Bossuyt, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon Slam), Emma Norsgaard (Movistar), Grace Brown, Marta Cavalli (FDJ- Nouvelle Aquitaine - Futuroscope), Marta Bastianelli, Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ), Lorena Wiebes, Florche Mackay (Team DSM), Lisa Brenauer (Serratigit - WNT), Chiara Consonni (Valcar - Travel & Services).

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