The second part of the 2024 spring Classics season continues on Wednesday, April 19 with the challenge of the Mur de Huy at La Flèche Wallonne and La Flèche Wallonne Femmes.
The brutal climb, located in the town of Huy in Wallonia, hosts the finale of the second of the Ardennes Classics where riders winch themselves up the double-digit gradients to the finish line.
Last year, Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won the women's race and will be back to defend her title, while in the men's race, Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) will be hoping to add to his Ardennes haul after winning Amstel Gold Race.
Among the women looking to snatch the crown from Vollering's head is another former winner, Marta Cavalli (FDJ-Suez). Other big names on the start line include Gaia Realini and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), Sarah Gigante and Ashleigh Moolman (AG Insurance-Soudal), and Kasia Niewiadomav (Canyon-Sram).
Over in the men's race watch out for former winner Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates), Benoît Cosnefroy (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), and Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), among others.
Cyclingnews will be bringing you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the races. Read on to find out how to watch the racing action via live stream, no matter your location, with NordVPN.
How to watch La Flèche Wallonne for free
If you live Belgium or are visiting on holiday, then you can watch La Flèche Wallonne 2024 for free via Belgian broadcaster Sporza. In Australia, SBS are also airing the action for free.
But if you're away from home on holiday during the racing then it's possible to keep up with the racing without resorting to shelling out for a local streaming subscription.
A VPN could solve your problem, and we have all the information on how to watch the action using a VPN below.
How to watch La Flèche Wallonne in the USA & Canada
The 2024 La Flèche Wallonne will be aired live in the USA by NBC and its streaming service PeacockTV. Pricing starts at $6 per month or $60 per year for a Peacock Premium subscription, while an ad-free Peacock Premium Plus plan will set you back $12 per month or $120 per year.
In Canada, the races will be aired by FloBikes. A subscription to the streaming service will set you back CAN$150 for the year or CAN$29.99 on a monthly basis.
How to watch La Flèche Wallonne in the UK
In the UK, live coverage of La Flèche Wallonne 2024 will continue to be broadcast via Eurosport and Discovery+ – with the same commentators that featured on GCN+.
A 'standard' subscription to Discovery+, which includes Eurosport's cycling coverage, will set you back £6.99 per month or £59.99 per year. The package includes year-round cycling streams as well as other live sports, including snooker, tennis, motorsports, the Paris Olympic Games, and more.
A premium subscription, which includes all that plus TNT Sports (Premier League, Champions League and Europa League football plus rugby, wrestling, UFC, and MotoGP) costs an additional £29.99 per month.
How to watch La Flèche Wallonne in Australia
In Australia, La Flèche Wallonne 2024 will be broadcast live and in full by the free-to-air channel SBS. The race is also set to be available on SBS on Demand – both live and in catch-up mode – if the middle of the night viewing in Australia doesn't work for you.
Watch live cycling on any streams
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.
In this case, a VPN service will come in handy, allowing your computer to pretend it's home and let you log into your streaming accounts to catch all of the racing action.
Our colleagues at TechRadarthoroughly tested several VPN services and came up with a few great recommendations below.
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There are a couple other very good options that are safe, reliable and offer good bandwidth for streaming sports. Check out two other top options below - ExpressVPN and the best budget option, Surfshark.
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Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, joining in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired full-time. Before joining the team, they had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including CyclingWeekly and Rouleur.
Dani has reported from the world's top races, including the Tour de France, Road World Championships, and the spring Classics. They have interviewed many of the sport's biggest stars, including Mathieu van der Poel, Demi Vollering, and Remco Evenepoel. Their favourite races are the Giro d'Italia, Strade Bianche and Paris-Roubaix.
