In this episode of the GCN Racing News Show, Dan recaps an action-packed week of racing, including the AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia, the Cyclocross World Championships, top-tier racing in Australia, and more! 🚴♂️🔥
Plus, with the closure of Eurosport, Dan explores why the cost of watching cycling in the UK is set to rise—and what it means for fans. 📺💰
00:00 Welcome to the GCN Racing News Show – Headlines
00:29 Last km attacks are still a thing
00:41 The AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia
03:04 Cyclocross World Championship
04:25 Surf Coast Classic
05:29 Racing in Mallorca
07:02 Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise
07:39 Cost of watching cycling in the UK to increase
13:04 Pro team wins so far
14:05 Carbon monoxide inhalation banned
14:25 Intermarché–Wanty sponsorship renewal
14:33 Remco evanpoel back on the bike
14:39 Shimano neutral service
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33 Comments
What was your favourite race in the last week? let us know 👇
You guys at GCN in particular, Channel 4 and ITV did such a great job bringing Cycling into the public domain in the visual media. The commercial over exploitation / bleeding of the punters, on the back of what you guys achieved is a sad state of affaires. I feel my / our niche sport is going to be sent back into obscurity. Cycling was very hard to find in the media anywhere in the media when I was a youth. Now it’s being priced out of the market. I am a cyclist. I don’t have any interest in those other sports but as least I’ll get out on the bike more. Thanks for what you did for our fantastic sport.
Thank you Lloyd and the GCN team ❤
I think there being an 'all sports' package is fine, but in addition to a cheaper package- as a cycling fan with near zero interest in other sports I don't want to pay for anything that includes the 'expensive' sports, I didn't even watch the last world cup so why on earth would I care about premier league football?
Cycling is going to loose supporters- you don't get into cycling by channel hopping and finding yourself watching half way through a 2.1 race where the breakaway is established and the peloton is cruising and think 'damn this is exciting!' people get interested when they're pageantry and hype around the big races (TdF, Olympics) and there's a solid highlights package that explains what's going to them, then they fall down the rabbit hole of watching more highlights, and some of the bigger races (with full commentary) live, and eventually find themselves watching Florian Stork go up the road at Trofeo Tramuntana and wonder whether the rest are worried enough about Hirshi to give him too much time, unless you already understand team dynamics and why they wouldn't want to bring Hirshi to the line it's not going to make much sense.
The merican model…..that seems to be working sooooooo well.
I literally said, “welcome to not watching cycling in the USA” at the start of the show
What is like American football and European football? Get to have television rights, but cycling does not if the tour de france is on tv.They get tv rights.They should have to share it with the teams
Get yourself a VPN. Watch Sporza or SBS.
Thanks !!!!
Sorry your prices across the pond are up, but it was a great weekend when the UCI streamed all the races on YouTube for free (at least in the USA).
Holy crap, 30 pounds/month?! I’m counting my blessings hearing that. Here in Australia we get all the grand tours, heaps of monuments and classics and the world champs all on free to air
I will not be paying £30 and frankly greed on this level can not be defended.
sounds more like WBD bought up all the competition to establish a monopoly
You missed 2nd and 3rd in Cadel Evens Race… both kiwis!! Aaron Gate and Laurence Pithie 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
Hi Dan Fantastic to watch as usual but you could have mentioned that in the U23 W GB had 3 riders in the top 10 and 4 in the top 15. Shows an increase in the potential future for CX and road in GB
It is lucky that people in the UK can get access to watch variety of sports, but it is unfortunately that most UK people don't want. They just watch cycling and …football. I feel sad for them. Actually, the all in one sports TV package in my country costs about 19.95 Pounds a month with 50+ sport channels to watch, whatever sport you could think of. Even that I still think it is too expensive, compare with the living cost.
been a Eurosport subscriber since the 90's either via satalite, online streaming or the fab GCN+ and its never cost me more that £40 per year. Now im expected to pay almost that for just a month just because it is mixed in with other sports i have no interest in. i feel like i have been fisted with no lube. what they are really saying is "we have paid too much for football rights so you gotta pay for it". cancelled my discrobbery+ subscription as soon as i found out. just gonna be highlights on youtube and the great GCN racing news show for me this season 😥
i wish Wally would have started on the front row …not saying he could have won but might have made him earn it !
that cost of streaming is a rort …can you get a vpn and watch from europe …
GCN + was the best thing to happen for cycling fans .
I really like Dans argument presenting, where he focuses on both ends of the problem and it also has some type of conclusion. Even though I am from Czechia and this change wont really do much to me & watching cycling, I can see in few years it will happen here eventually.
I’d like to understand this comment from Orla a bit more – ‘We want investment in the sport. We might want it free-to-air but without investment where does the sport go? Besides, if you’re a cycling fan, I think you want to see it alongside football and rugby and the big sports in this country. That’s where cycling belongs.’ Investment in the sport?
I love racing season. Shame that it's getting expensive. I watched stages from cafe's in France 2 years ago. I hope they can still show the greatest race.
Hi Dan l feel for you Pommys since the loss of the GCNapp cycling fans in Australia have only public broadcaster SBS to show cycling don't get me wrong they do a very good job but it was better with GCN google luck.
12:30 ask the dude how gatekeeping a bunch of sports from most of the world population is increasing the profits.
Anders Lund???? Learn the name – TOBIAS Lund AndRESEN
A lot of people here are advocating watching on SBS. It is geo-restricted so you’ll need a VPN. SBS appears to be trying to block VPNs but if you check all your devices and pretty much every available web browser you should find one that works. If this fails you’ll need to stump up another couple of quid a month to secure a unique IP address in Oz from your VPN provider. Worst case scenario should be you need to pay for a VPN and unique IP address but this shouldn’t cost more than you were paying D+ to watch cycling in the first place.
The UK especially is awful for watching sports. Using Football as an example because it's probably the largest sport here, you need to pay for at least 3 services (TNT, SKY, Amazon) and that doesn't even guarantee that you'll be able to watch the match you want as some aren't even broadcast.
Piracy is still a thing because the service available is awful. If you only watch cycling, going from £7 to £31 is absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately I don't think it'll get better because there will always be people who will pay these prices, and we'll probably see even more sports removed from free to air TV.
Thanks for the explanation Dan, very diplomatic. Hope you get that interview with WBD. Interesting comment from Belgium worth bringing into the conversation. Cycling sponsors will desert WBD surely. SteephillTV renaissance?
30 pounds a month for a sport that runs from March till mid October.
There are at least a couple of ways to get cheaper cycling viewings in UK: if you have a BT broadband package or an ee sub.
Come on GCN please speak out against the impossible monthly for cycle sports on TNT in UK.
The trouble with the tv rights is it’s all about money and a company will pay whoever the price is for those right so they can ask whatever $$$ they want for the rights