The Santos Tour Down Under is only a few weeks away and signals the start of the 2026 UCI WorldTour season - Watch it wherever you are, and save up to $80 on a Norton VPN subscription

The 2026 UCI WorldTour season starts on January 16th with the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia. The Tour Down Under is seen as the traditional current raiser and the official start of another WorldTour year. After the excitement of 2025, I’m already organising my 2026 cycling season viewing.

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The cyclo-cross season is already setting the tone for the year ahead, packed with exciting racing, including the UCI World Cup, Superprestige, and X2O Trofee already happening.

This weekend sees the big two go head-to-head with World Champion Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert clashing for the first time at round two of the cyclo-cross World Cup in Antwerp. Mathieu van der Poel started his cyclo-cross season with a dominant display last weekend at the UCI World Cup in Namur, and will look to lay down a marker for the rest of the season against his long-term rival van Aert.

The only way you can secure uninterrupted viewing from wherever you may be over the festive period and into the 2026 cycling season is by using a VPN.

If you are unsure of the benefits of a VPN, then our guide below explains all the benefits, and also how to watch all the cyclo-cross action.

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Where to watch cyclo-cross this season

UK

As with all cycling coverage in the UK, TNT Sports and its streaming platform Discovery+ (£30.99/month) have all the major cyclo-cross races covered this season, including the World Cup, Superprestige, and Exact Cross series.

USA

In the US, the Cyclo-cross World Cup is on Flobikes ($29.99/month), but the rest is mostly on HBO Max ($18.49/month)

Canada

Subscribers to Flobikes ($39.99/month)north of the border get a larger selection of races beyond the World Cups.

Free cyclo-cross coverage

There's loads of it about, depending on your location. You can watch every single UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race for free thanks to the UCI YouTube channel – geo-restrictions apply, so it won't work in the UK and is only occasionally open to those in the US. There is also widespread free-to-air cyclo-cross coverage in Europe, with NOS in the Netherlands and Sporza in Belgium showing the most important races.