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.
Belgium's spring season kicks off this Wednesday and Thursday with the Classique Bruges des Pannes, and then moves onto the cobbles with the "Mini Tour of Flanders," the E3 Saxo Bank Classic on Friday, March 25.
Cycling News will bring you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race; read on to find out how to use ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) to watch the spring classics via live stream.
The 204-km race will feature 11 cobblestone sections and 16 major mountain sections as it winds east from the start-finish point of Harelbeke around the region of Flanders.
Major challenges on the route include the Tyenberg, the Stationsberg, the famous Paterberg-Ude Kwaremont double header, and the Tegenberg before a 15 km flat run to the finish.
Defending champion Caspar Asgreen returns to lead the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team. Asgreen, along with Florian Senechal and Zdenek Stival, will be one of the strongest teams in the race.
Jumbo Visma will have Wout Van Aert, Tiesj Benoot, and Christophe Laporte, while Trek Segafredo will look to the trio of Mads Pedersen, Yasper Steiven, and Quinn Simmons. AG2R Citroen will led by the double team of Greg Van Avermaat and Oliver Naessen.
Other notables in the starting lineup include Alexander Christov (Intermarke Wanty-Gobert Materio), Gianni Moscon (Astana Kazakstan), Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Victor Kampenaerts ( Lot Soudal), Nils Pollitt (Bora Hansgrohe), Sepp Vanmarcke (Israel Premier Tech), Peter Sagan (Total Energies), and the Ineos Grenadier duo of Dylan Van Barre and Honatan Narvaez.
Race Schedule Start - 12:15 (11:15 CET, 07:15 EST), Finish - 17:06 (16:06 CET, 12:06 EST), Friday, March 25.
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The E3 Saxo Bank Classic will be broadcast across Europe on Eurosport (opens in new tab) and Discovery+ (opens in new tab); Eurosport Player costs £6.99 per month (approx. £9.15) and a 12-month pass costs £59.99 (approx. Discovery+ offers the same coverage for the same price.
GCN+ (opens in new tab) in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, and races are broadcast in some other regions.
Local Belgian broadcasters RTBF (open in new tab) and Sporza (open in new tab) also broadcast the race.
We will also have NBC Sports (opens in new tab) via Peacock ($4.99/month in the US), Flobikes (opens in new tab) (one-year subscription $150 in the US, $209.99 in Canada), and others during the Spring Classics season, We'll be updating our "How to Watch" guide over the next month to include other broadcasters to keep in mind.
If you don't have cable, you can access NBC Sports via SlingTV (opens in new tab) ($35/month, $10 off first month) or FuboTV (opens in new tab) ($64.99/month) through a smart TV, or other smart device, via IP You can also access NBC Sports.
European spring classical 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), RTVE ( (open in new tab) (Spain).
If you live outside the broadcast area or are out of the country on vacation and find that the live stream is geographically restricted, you can simulate being in your home country via a "virtual private network" for your laptop, tablet, or phone, or via VPN and
This can be circumvented by accessing it via a VPN.
Our sister site TechRadar has tested hundreds of VPNs and recommends the number one VPN currently available as Express VPN. with ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) you can access your Smart TV, Fire TV Stick, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, tablet, etc., and watch on many devices at once.
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