The 2022 Spring Classic is underway. If you're looking for ways to watch the Classics over the next month, check out our handy Spring 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.
Following Matej Mohoric's daring victory in Milan-San Remo and Elisa Balsamo's victory in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, the peloton will head north to Belgium, starting with the men's and women's races in the Classic Bruges-Des Pannes on Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24.
Cycling News will bring you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race, and read about how to use ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) to live stream the Spring Classics from anywhere.
In the four years since this race became a one-day classic, honors have wavered between sprinters and late attackers.
The women's peloton will tackle the 158.8 km flat course near the North Sea and conclude with two laps around the finish line around De Panne. The men's race will consist of three laps of 207.9 km.
In the men's race, the sprint trains of Quick-Step Alfa Vinyl and Bora Hansgrohe will go head-to-head, with Mark Cavendish and Sam Bennett among the favorites to win De Panne.
A number of other top sprinters, including Arnaud Demaret (Groupama-FDJ), Dylan Groenewegen (BikeExchange-Jayco), Pascal Ackermann (UAE Team Emirates), Tim Merlier ( Alpecin Phoenix), Nasser Bouhanni (Alcare Samsic), Max Warscheid (Cofidis), Arnaud De Lier (Lot Soudal), Olaf Couey (Yumbo Visma) and Cees Bol (Team DSM).
The classic men's team will also include Jasper Stuyven (Trek Segafredo), Gianni Vermersch (Lotto Soudal), Gianni Moscon (Astana Kazakstan) and Niki Terpstra (Total Energy).
In the women's competition, defending champion Grace Brown will defend her title in the FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope. Also competing will be world champion and Trofeo Binda winner Elisa Balsamo (Trek Segafredo) and Strade Bianche winner Lotte Kopecky (SD Works).
Others in the field include Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM), Emma Norsgaard Bjerg (Movistar), Marta Bastianelli (UAE Team ADQ), Chiara Consonni (Valcar Travel & Services), Chantal Van den Broeck-Blake (SD Works), Kirsten Faulkner (Bike Exchange Jayco), and Alice Burns (Canyon Slam) will start.
Men's Race Schedule Start - Wednesday, March 23, 12:15 p.m. (11:15 a.m. EDT, 07:15 p.m. EST); Finish - Wednesday, March 23, 17:12 p.m. (16:12 p.m. EDT, 12:12 p.m. EST).
Women's race schedule: start - 13:05 (12:05 GMT, 08:05 EST), finish - 17:09 local time (16:09 GMT, 12:09 EST), Thursday, March 24.
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The Bruges des Pins Classics will be broadcast across Europe on Eurosport (opens in new tab) and Discovery+ (opens in new tab) Eurosport Player costs £6.99/month (about $9.15), 12-month pass £59.99 (Discovery+" offers the same coverage for the same price.
GCN+ (opens in new tab) in the UK, Europe, US, Canada and Australia, and races in some other regions, costs £39.99 for one year.
Local Belgian broadcasters RTBF (opens in new tab) and Sporza (opens in new tab) also broadcast the race.
We will continue to update our "How to Watch" guide throughout the Spring Classics season, including NBC Sports via Peacock (opens in new tab) ($4.99/month in the US), Flobikes (opens in new tab) (1-year subscription is $150 in the US, $209.99 in Canada), We'll continue to update our "How to Watch" guide with other broadcasters to keep in mind over the next month.
If you don't have cable, you can also access NBC Sports via IP from your smart TV or other smart device using SlingTV (opens in new tab) ($35/month) or FuboTV (opens in new tab) ($64.99/month)
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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), 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 to gain access, this can be circumvented.
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 use 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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