With riders already having tackled the Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne, the hilly Ardennes Classics are rounded out with Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday April 27. Known as La Doyenne ('the old lady') thanks to its long history – it was first run in 1892, before the Tour de France or Paris-Roubaix – 'LBL' is one of the longest and hilliest one-day races on the calendar.
Below, Cycling Weekly has compiled everything you need to know about broadcasters and live streams, so you can watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège wherever you are in the world.
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How to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the UK
In the UK, Liège-Bastogne-Liège like pretty much all pro cycling, will be shown on TV on TNT Sports and online on Discovery+. Both platforms are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and require a subscription.
The women's Liège is live on TNT Sports 4 from 12.45pm BST on Sunday April 27, with coverage on Discovery+ too. The men's race is live on TNT Sports 4 and Discovery+ from 9.15am BST on the same day.
Discovery+ costs £30.99 a month since the price rise one month ago. TNT Sports is also £30.99 a month, but is cheaper with certain TV packages.
How to watch the Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the US and Canada
For North American viewers, this year's coverage of Liège-Bastogne-Liège is on Peacock and FloBikes.
Peacock is the place to go to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the US. Subscriptions start at $7.99 per month, or $79.99 a year.
FloBikes is in charge of broadcasting Liège-Bastogne-Liège in Canada. Subscriptions cost $30 or CA$39.99 a month, with big savings for long-term plans. The Flobikes TV app is available on Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast and Apple TV, as well as on iOS and Android.
Can I watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège for free?
Fans in Australia can watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège for free, as can those in many European countries, including the host country of Belgium, plus France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands.
In Australia, Liège-Bastogne-Liège is part of public broadcaster SBS's portfolio of races, with live streaming available on their free platform, SBS On Demand.
Details on all the free options, wherever you are, in the table below.
How to watch the Liège-Bastogne-Liège while abroad
Most streaming platforms have geo-restrictions these days, which means they only work in certain countries. But being locked out of the races is a thing of the past thanks to a VPN, so you can continue to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège while on the move.
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The men's Liège-Bastogne-Liège starts at 09:15 BST / 04:15 EDT, and is expected to finish about 15:24 BST / 10:24 EDT with the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes starting at 12.45 BST / 07:45 EDT and expected to finish about 16:53 BST / 11:53 EDT.
UK coverage of Liège-Bastogne-Liège begins at 11:00 BST.
In the US, Peacock's coverage begins at 06:00 EDT
In Canada, Flobikes' coverage starts at 06:00 EDT
In Australia, Liège-Bastogne-Liège coverage starts at 20:00 AEST and runs into the early hours of Monday morning.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège is the third and last of the three Ardennes Classics, with the other two being Amstel Gold Race (which is not, in fact, in the Ardennes), and the mid-week Flèche Wallonne.
This year's Liège-Bastogne-Liège take place on Sunday April 27. The men's race does pretty much what it says on the tin, starting in Liège, heading south to Bastogne on the Luxembourg border and returning to Liège, by a slightly more convoluted route.
The women's race, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes, begins in Bastogne and follows the men's route back to Liège. Both are long and very hilly races, with the men's event covering 252km (156 miles) with 152.9km (95 miles), with 4,300m and 2,750m of climbing respectively.
As the oldest race on the calendar, it's unsurprising that it is classified as one of the five cycling Monuments. With so much climbing, it is well suited to Grand Tour stars, and recent editions of the men's race have been won by Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič, while Demi Vollering and Annemiek van Vleuten, have won recent editions of the women's edition.
Defending champions this year are Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) and Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez), who has retired.
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Eventually becoming chief sub-editor, in 2016 he switched to the job of full-time writer, and covers news, racing and features.
A lifelong cyclist and cycling fan, James's racing days (and most of his fitness) are now behind him. But he still rides regularly, both on the road and on the gravelly stuff.
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