Spring Classics season is underway and Milan-San Remo is the next stop on the calendar as the peloton takes on the longest one-day race of the year on Saturday, March 16.
After the major Classics season started at Opening Weekend and continued at Strade Bianche, LaClassica di Primavera Milan-San Remo is the first Monument of the season, bringing with it a packed start list to match.
Past winners lining up in a new start location in Pavia include defending champion Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Arnaud Démare (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep), and Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious).
The remainder of the list of contenders brings together a familiar list of Classics contenders, puncheurs, and sprinters hoping to survive the Poggio.
Watch out for Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Tom Pidcock and Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease A Bike), Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), Michael Matthews and Caleb Ewan (Jayco-AlUla), Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Dstny), Jonathan Milan and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), and more.
Cyclingnews will be bringing you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race. Read on to find out how to watch the racing action via live stream, no matter your location, with NordVPN.
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How to watch Milan-San Remo for free
If you live Italy or are visiting on holiday, then you can watch Milan-San Remo 2024 for free via Italian national broadcaster RAI or with an English commentary on Australian streaming service SBS On Demand.
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.
Milan-San Remo 2024 will be aired by Max in the USA. A subscription to the service will set you back $10 per month or $100 per year with ads, $16/$150 for an ad-free experience, or $200 per year for the 'Ultimate' package, which includes additional devices and 4k resolution where available.
In addition to that, you'll need to pay for the B/R Sports add-on, which costs an extra $10 per month.
The race will be aired by FloBikes in Canada, meanwhile. 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 Milan-San Remo in the UK
In the UK, live coverage of Milan-San Remo 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 Milan-San Remo in Australia
In Australia, Milan-San Remo 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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With servers in over 100 countries, you can stream your favorite shows from almost anywhere. Best of all, Surfshark costs as little as $2.30 per month, and it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee to try it out.
Milan-San Remo schedule and route
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Event
Key times (CET)
KM to go
TV coverage begins
10:00
288
Race start
10:00
288
Passo del Turchino
13:40
149.7
Cipressa
16:38
21.7
Poggio
17:00
5.6
Finish (44 kph)
16:47
0
Finish (42 kph)
17:07
0
Finish (40 kph)
17:28
0
The route profile of the 2024 Milan-San Remo (Image credit: RCS Sport)
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.
