The entire men’s and women’s Grand Tour season will be shown on Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) channels and platforms across Europe this season including every stage of the Giro d’Italia from 8-31 May.

The battle for the maglia rosa will be told through 107 hours of live action streaming on HBO Max across Europe and USA as well as premium television coverage on Eurosport in Europe and on TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland.

WBD’s free-to-air race coverage will maximise reach in selected territories including live coverage of every stage on Kanal 5 in Denmark and daily highlights coverage on DMAX for viewers in the UK and Ireland. In the USA, truTV will broadcast stages 1-14 live and offer highlights coverage of stages 15-21.

Scott Young, EVP at WBD Sports Europe, said: “The Giro d’Italia is one the most epic challenges any athlete can undertake and the ‘grande partenza’ marks the beginning of a blockbuster summer of sport on our channels and platforms. As the home of cycling, broadcasting more than 1,000 live races each season, our mission is to shine a light on this sport, its teams and riders all-year round while helping it reach even more fans.

“Our own team of cycling fans consists of more than 40 accomplished presenters, reporters and commentators with over 180 Grand Tours between them. Together, we will broadcast over 100 hours of live race coverage with added action presented through live pre and post-race shows, highlights and bonus digital content. With expert storytellers narrating our live coverage, cycling legends following the race, and passionate personalities presenting our local shows, our coverage will be truly immersive.\

“Our approach to uncovering every story across all platforms will take viewers closer to the year's first Grand Tour than ever before, offering even more ways to engage with the Giro d’Italia as we convey the rhythm of the race, the tactics that define it, and share the stories that shape the quest for the treasured maglia rosa - from the first attack in Bulgaria to the final climb in Italy.”

Authentic Italy with local flavours for fans across Europe

In addition to its pan-European coverage across every market in Europe available in up 20 languages, Eurosport and TNT Sports will offer fans localised storytelling throughout the Giro d’Italia. 

The most advanced studio technology will power local pre and post-race shows for Eurosport France (Les Rois de la Pédale), Spain (La Montonera), Netherlands (Kop Over Kop), Germany (Velo Club) and Denmark (Radio Tour). Unique storytelling tools and analysis features such as inclinometers, interactive stage maps, virtual wind tunnels and team buses will enable expert on-air teams to explain the intricacies of each stage to create the most immersive viewing experience.

TNT Sports presents The Breakaway live from the cycling community for the first time

In the UK and Ireland, TNT Sports will take its studio show The Breakaway to live audiences for the first time throughout the race. Broadcasting from the heart of the cycling community, host Orla Chennaoui together with regular pundits Adam Blythe and Robbie McEwen will join special guests to offer fans a front row seat to three shows filmed at different locations throughout the 2026 Giro d’Italia. Exclusive venues include:

• The Clubhouse, Putney (stage six, 14 May): Located on the River Thames by Putney Bridge, London, The Clubhouse is the home of Raptor Bikes and offers a hybrid cycling hub, café and community space.
• Sigma Sports, Hampton Wick (stage 13, 22 May): Acting as a natural stop-off for cyclists on training rides around Richmond Park and the Surrey Hills area, the Sigma Sports store is recognised as one of the UK’s most established performance cycling retail space.
• Rapha Clubhouse, Piccadilly Circus (stage 18, 28 May): Rapha’s flagship site and its first-ever Clubhouse pays tribute to the importance of coffee in cycling culture. The premium retail store, café and global community hub is a destination for cyclists to meet, ride and watch cycling in London.

Cycling fans in the UK can contact each venue for details of how to attend the live shows.

Guy Voisin, VP Cycling at WBD Sports Europe, said: “We’re incredibly excited to take The Breakaway out of the studio to three iconic cycling locations for the first time ever. Bringing the show to the heart of the cycling community is exactly what the sport deserves. It gives our viewers a front row seat and creates a shared space where fans, riders, and presenters can experience the race together in real time.”

Grand Tour greats and passionate presenters headline on-air team

A host of cycling and storytelling experts together with accomplished former Grand Tour riders will come together to provide analysis and commentary from each stage throughout the Giro d’Italia for audiences across Europe including:

• Motorbike live presenter in Italy: Jens Voigt (week one); Alessandro De Marchi (week two); Adam Blythe (week three)
• On-site presenters: Hannah Walker and Matt Stephens (UK); Florian Pigeon and Thomas Bihel (France); Sebastien Liberandt (Germany); Sader Kleikers (Netherlands); Anders Mielke, Bastian Emil Goldschmidt and Brian Holm (Denmark); Andrea Berton (Italy); Simeon Kichukov (Bulgaria, stages 1-3)
• UK and Ireland: Robbie McEwen, Jens Voigt, Orla Chennaoui; Adam Blythe and Matt Stephens; Sean Kelly (commentary); Rob Hatch (commentary); Hannah Walker (on-site reporter)
• Germany: Jens Voigt and Robert Bengsch  
• France: Steve Chainel, Jacky Durand and Philippe Gilbert; Louis-Pierre Frileux and Florian Pigeon (on-site reporters) 
• Spain: Alberto Contador, Eduardo Chozas and Laura Meseguer  
• Netherlands: Karsten Kroon, Bobbie Traksel and Jip van den Bos with special guest appearances from Grand Tour stage winner Micheal Boogerd (stage two) and Giro d’Italia winners Tom Dumoulin (stage three) and Annemiek van Vleuten (stage five)

Jens Voigt, WBD cycling expert, said: “The Giro d’Italia is 21 stages of really tough racing. It’s around 3,500 kilometres in total and with close to 50,000 metres of climbing, which is more than five times the elevation of Mount Everest, it’s a huge physical challenge. I’ll be on the motorbike from the start until the first rest day, documenting the race from inside the peloton and taking fans as close as you can get. After that I’ll head to Munich to for Eurosport Germany’s Giro post-race studio show to offer different perspectives.

“Jonas Vingegaard will try to win the Giro for the first time and if he can pull that off, it puts him in an exclusive club of riders who have won all three Grand Tours, which would be a special piece of history. Everything is there to make it exciting; the recipe is there now the riders just need to cook up a wonderful, thrilling race.”

HBO Max: the streaming home of live cycling

Following the launch of HBO Max in the UK, where it becomes the streaming home of TNT Sports, viewers in all markets across Europe can enjoy access to an unmatched live cycling content offer on the platform, which encompasses more than 1,000 live race broadcasts each season.

Providing the most complete, interactive and immersive cycling experience throughout the Grand Tours, innovative in-app features are available for HBO Max subscribers including:

• Multiview: allowing users to watch up to four concurrent race feeds simultaneously on the same screen
• Key moments: enabling users to easily scrub to important events during each stage such as a breakaway, an attack or a climb that can determine the outcome of the race
• Select your language: with a variety of different commentary options available
• Watchlist: personalise your Giro d’Italia experience by saving specific stages, highlights and other programmes to your watchlist

Captivating fans beyond the live action, HBO Max is also telling the stories of the teams and riders on and off the road with a slate of new documentary content. This includes new episodes of the weekly magazine show The Cycling Show, its mountain bike docuseries Race Bikes, its original 60-minute film called The Cycle: Becoming a Pro Rider which charts what it takes to make it as a pro, and Giro d’Italia: Dreaming in Pink – the five-part series available across Europe (excluding the UK) which celebrates the Italian landscape and identity of the year’s first Grand Tour.  

Completing the ultimate digital cycling destination, Eurosport and TNT Sports social media platforms and websites will offer up free highlights, editorial articles and exclusive behind-the-scenes race and rider content from each Grand Tour stage.

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The 2026 Giro d’Italia will travel 3,459 kilometres with a colossal 48,500 metres of altitude gain across 21 stages. The race begins in Bulgaria for the first time before heading to its ancestral home from stage four ahead of an iconic finish encompassing laps around Rome’s cobbled Fori Imperiali and Colosseum on Sunday 31 May.

Denmark’s two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard of Team Visma-Lease a Bike is the race’s favourite ahead of a series of riders to have placed on Grand Tour podiums including Australia’s Ben O’Connor, Spain’s Enric Mas, and the UK’s Adam Yates.

La Vuelta Femenina takes place from 3-10 May with every stage live across Europe (Eurosport) and TNT Sports (UK and Ireland) with streaming on HBO Max. The race will be contested over seven stages in Spain with the two-time defending champion Demi Vollering of the Netherlands looking to retain her crown ahead of fellow Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen, Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser, Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky and the reigning Tour de France Femmes champion Pauline-Ferrand Prévot.

WBD recently extended its exclusive rights** to show the Giro d'Italia, Giro d’Italia Women and Italian Classics across Europe and USA through a renewed partnership with RCS Sport. Its channels and platforms including Eurosport have a long and storied history of covering the race after first broadcasting the Giro d'Italia in 1998.

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