Every men's and women's Grand Tour stage to be shown live on TNT Sports and HBO Max, including Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and La Vuelta
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Published 30/04/2026 at 17:23 GMT+1
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The entire men’s and women’s Grand Tour season will be shown live across TNT Sports and HBO Max this season, including every stage of the Giro d’Italia from May 8-31.
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The battle for the maglia rosa will be told through 107 hours of live action streaming on HBO Max as well as premium television coverage on TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland. Daily free-to-air highlights will be available on DMAX to viewers in the U.K and Ireland.
Orla Chennaoui will once again front the live coverage, with Robbie McEwen and Adam Blythe as regular guests throughout the race. Matt Stephens and Hannah Walker will feature in the studio as well as delivering live on-site reporting. Cycling royalty Sean Kelly will be behind-the-mic alongside lead commentator, Rob Hatch.
Immersive live motorbike reporting will once again be in action with Jens Voigt (week one) Alessandro De Marchi (week two) and Adam Blythe (week three) delivering live race reports and insights from inside the peloton.
TNT Sports presents The Breakaway live from the cycling community for the first time
TNT Sports will offer fans localised storytelling throughout the Giro d’Italia by taking 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:
- Sigma Sports, Hampton Wick (Stage 6, May 14): 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.
- The Clubhouse, Putney (Stage 13, May 22): 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.
- Rapha Clubhouse, Piccadilly Circus (Stage 18, May 28): 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.
Scott Young, EVP at WBD Sports Europe, said: ”The Giro d’Italia is one the most epic undertakings 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 across 300 days 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.
”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 - from the roadside to our studios and everywhere in between.
”This all-platform approach 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.”
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.”
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 can enjoy access to an unmatched live cycling content offer on the platform, which encompasses more than 1,000 live race broadcasts each season.
Fans can subscribe to a new ‘TNT Sports Saver Plan’ which includes x12 monthly payments of £25.99. offering fans a cheaper way to enjoy the full cycling season. The TNT Sports Standalone monthly plan is available at £30.99. All information can be found here: hbomax.com
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
- 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 and its original 60-minute film called The Cycle: Becoming a Pro Rider which charts what it takes to make it as a pro.
Completing the ultimate digital cycling destination, 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.
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 across around Rome’s cobbled Fori Imperiali and Colosseum on Sunday May 31.
Denmark’s two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard of Team Visma-Lease a Bike is the race’s favourite. With the withdrawal of João Almeida for UAE Team Emirates, ambitions in the General Classification may fall on the shoulders of Brit Adam Yates, who will look to emulate the performance of brother Simon, who clinched a maiden Maglia Rosa in 2025.
La Vuelta Femenina takes place from May 3-10 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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