One of more confusing landscapes to navigate these days is the evolving world of sports streaming. If you can’t travel across the Atlantic Ocean and find an opening in the crowd on a mountain climb or at a sprint finish, how can you follow the action? And in many places across Europe, you can no longer just turn on a television to watch a local broadcast.
Streaming has made it easier to be a fan of cycling, but also harder at the same time. It is also an investment to watch from the comfort of your handheld device or smart TV.
In the US in particular, once GCN+ went away more than a year ago, it seemed to get tougher to locate a race, from cyclocross to road racing. Most mountain bike and gravel races were left to piece together using social media videos and snippets of written updates.
There are now three main players for US viewers to find live coverage of professional races around the globe in 2025 – FloBikes, HBO Max and Peacock. They have carved out their own turf with licencing agreements among notable race organisers, from ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, but not all the partnerships have consistent geographical rights so there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
In general, FloBikes will broadcast Flanders Classic road races (Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race) and UCI cyclocross World Cup events, Peacock will carry ASO races (Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de France, Vuelta a España) and HBO Max, the streaming arm for Warner Bros. Discovery, has RCS Sport and other races (Giro d’Italia and Giro d’Italia Women).
If basic, yearly subscriptions were purchased for all three streaming services (using the standard retail value), the total for the set would come to $429.86, which is a savings of 38% if you paid the regular monthly fees for each service (adding up to $695.64, plus tax at standard rates).
Of course, you can piece together different plans for specific months, say one month of HBO Max to watch the Giro d’Italia and Giro d’Italia Women, one month of Peacock to watch the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes and then one month of FloBikes to watch UCI Road World Championships, which would make a dent of about $78.00, plus tax. It then becomes a game like a cross-word puzzle of patience to manage apps and continued monthly fees, missing discounts for annual subscriptions.
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Cyclingnews takes a look at what plans are available, which top races are included with each service and if there are any specials to entice your selection.
FloBikes
FloBikes began live and on-demand coverage for professional cycling in 2017, a vertical streaming channel under the FloSports umbrella. For cycling content, FloBikes has partnerships with ASO, UCI, and Flanders Classics, but the majority of those race rights are restricted to Canada.
In the US this past year, programming included UCI Cyclocross World Cup races, UCI Track Champions League and USA Cycling national championships events and other select European road races.
A bonus with FloBikes is that subscribers receive access to other FloSports programming, such as motorsports, college sports and other amateur and pro events, according to a company spokesperson.
“We have 40,000 events a year across a bunch of different sports. The top verticals are FloRacing, FloCollege, which launched in October, FloHockey and FloWrestling. With FloRacing, we have pretty much every motorsports category, including dirt track, short track, sprint car; no Formula One,” Brian Reinert, VP of Corporate Communications, told Cyclingnews.
FloBikes subscription
Pro account (with ads) – $29.99/month or $1149.88/year
Reinert did confirm that the schedule of races currently listed on the FloBikes website generically references overall rights in North America, and since the majority of events are for Canadian subscribers only, this causes confusion if US viewers are deciding what they can watch. The company was looking to “get in the weeds on this” and manually adjust programming restrictions based on either Canada or the US.
Looking ahead to the fall, FloBikes offers coverage to US subscribers for both UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and UCI Road World Championships.
A bonus for a subscription allows for streaming on up to 12 devices in the same household, which is more than double the other streaming services.
Major races on FloBikes 2025
Tour de La Provence, February 14-16
Gent-Wevelgem, March 30
Gent-Wevelgem Women, March 30
Amstel Gold Race, April 20
Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition, April 20
USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships (Elite Crits), May 23
USA CRITS Finals: Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, May 24
USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships (Elite Road Races), May 26
Tour de Suisse Women, June 12-15
UCI BMX Racing World Championships, July 28
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, August 30-September 24
UCI Road World Championships, September 21-28
Max
In late December 2023, Global Cycling Network closed their popular GCN+ streaming service, a measure taken by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery to consolidate programming. For the US audience, HBO Max has been reconfigured the past two years, first offering a Bleacher Report Sports add-on (B/R Sports), boasting 300 broadcasts of the ‘biggest cycling race events’, for all plans, and then scrubbing the add-on in 2025 so that sports was included in only two of their three plans.
Warner Bros. Discovery integrated live sports from Discovery Channel and new TNT and TBS affiliations two years ago for a broad array of programming from pro sports leagues (MLB, NHL, NBA), NCAA basketball, US soccer national matches and includes more than 300 cycling races for road, mountain bike, track, cyclocross and BMX competitions worldwide.
The Basic With Ads plan does not provide access to sports programming any longer, but the Standard and Premium plans both include sports, without additional add-on purchases.
Max subscriptions
Standard – $16.99/month or $169.99/year (16% savings)
Premium – $20.99/month or $209.99/year (16% savings)
HBO Max offers two plans with live sports; the Basic With Ads plan for $99.99 year does not include live sports. The Standard plan is $16.99 per month or $169.99 (savings of 16%), which includes full HD video resolution and 30 downloads to watch on the go.
The Premium plan is $20.99 per month or $209.99 a year (savings of 16%) with 4K UHD video resolution and 100 downloads allowed. Both offer streaming on two devices at once for sports.
Major races on Max 2025
Strade Bianche, March 8
Strade Bianche Women, March 8
Tirreno–Adriatico, March 10-16
Milan–San Remo, March 22
Milan-San Remo Women, March 22
Giro d’Italia, May 9-June 1
Giro d’Italia Next Gen, June 15-22
Giro d’Italia Women, Juy 6-13
Tour de Pologne, August 4-10
Tour de Romandie Féminin, August 15-17
Tour of Denmark, August 12-16
Il Lombardia, Oct 11
Peacock
NBC Sports and NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock launched a six-year extension with Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) in 2024 to remain the exclusive US media rightsholders for the Tour de France, with live start-to-finish coverage for every stage through 2029.
Also in the stable of ASO stage races for the US audience are the Tour de France, Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Vuelta a España, La Vuelta Femenina, Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné. Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Roubaix Femmes lead a collection of one-day races on the broadcast schedule, as well as La Fleche Wallone, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Paris-Tours.
Peacock subscriptions
Peacock Premium (with ads) – $10.99/month or $109.99/year (16% savings)
Premium Plus (no ads) – $16.99/month or $169.99/year (16% savings)
Full coverage of the Tour de France takes centre stage in July, where Peacock is the only place for US viewers to watch live action of the Grand Tour.
In the spring a discount was offered for new Peacock subscribers, with a savings of 63% on an annual Peacock Premium subscription, reduced to $29.99 for one year, so keep an eye out for future offers.
While there was an increase in pricing later in 2025, Peacock now offers a discount for annual subscriptions with a “get 12 months for the price of 10”. There is also a student discount for the Premium plan, available for $2.99 each month for 12 months for qualified subscribers.
A Premium plan is $10.99 per month or $109.99 for a full year. The Premium Plus plan differs by offering no ads (with limited exclusions for sports, events and other programming) and provides download capabilities for mobile devices. The Premium Plus plan is available for $16.99 per month or $169.99 for a full year.
Major races on Peacock 2025
Paris-Nice, March 9-16
Paris-Roubaix Femmes, April 12
Paris-Roubaix, April 13
Vuelta España Femenina, May 4-10
Critérium du Dauphiné, June 8-15
Tour de France, July 5-27
Tour de France Femmes, July 26-August 3
Vuelta a España, August 23-September 14
Live race streaming schedule for US
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August races 2025 (schedule subject to change)
Date
Race
Broadcaster
August 2
Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa
► FloBikes
August 3
Circuito de Getxo-Memorial Hermanos Otxoa
► FloBikes
August 4-10
Tour de Pologne
► HBO Max
August 5-9
Vuelta a Burgos
► FloBikes
August 6-8
Tour de l’Ain
► HBO Max
August 7-10
Arctic Race of Norway
► FloBikes
August 12-14
Tour de Pologne Women
► HBO Max
August 12-16
Tour of Denmark
► HBO Max
August 14-17
Czech Tour
► FloBikes
August 15
Circuit Franco-Belge
► HBO Max
August 15-17
Tour de Romandie Feminin
► FloBikes
August 20-24
Deutschland Tour
► FloBikes
August 23-September 14
Vuelta a España
► Peacock
August 30-September 14
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
► FloBikes
August 31
Bretagne Classic
► HBO Max
How to use your US streaming subscription wherever you are
If you are outside of your home region and need to access your live streaming services to watch the action, you may find your access to be geo-restricted. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch the races.
In this case, a VPN will come in handy. A Virtual Private Network – to give it its full name – allows your computer to pretend it’s in a different country, letting you log into your streaming accounts to catch all of the racing action.
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