ITV4 will not be covering this year’s Giro d’Italia. The race is run by a different organisation from the Tour de France and many other major races and they don’t have the rights. That isn’t to say you can’t see it though. You still have options.
Live TV coverage
Eurosport do a great job of covering professional road racing. A lot of people have Eurosport as part of their TV package, but if you don’t, you can sign up for what is now called the Discovery+ Player. It’s £6.99 a month – which will cover the entire race. The Discovery+ Player means you can follow the entire race on your phone, your laptop or via a TV app (or even on your telly plugged into your laptop as a workaround).
The race is also supposedly being broadcast live – or at least some stages are – on S4C and S4CHD (although I can’t actually see it in the listings). Here’s where you can find it. It’ll be Welsh commentary, but there may be an option to toggle to English. (They offer that option with rugby.)
Highlights
These days the highlights are broadcast on DMAX, which is available on Freeview and also via the Discovery+ and Freeview apps. They seem to be quite reliably scheduled for 7pm.
Meanwhile, if you go for the Discovery app, then full stages and highlights will be available on-demand.
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I’ll be covering the Giro, so why not follow it here? If you haven’t done so already, here’s why you should sign up for email updates and if you do already subscribe, please forward today’s email to someone who might be interested by way of recommendation. This act of kindness would be greatly appreciated and I’ll reward you by just sort of carrying on much as I would have done even if you hadn’t bothered.
This is an updated version of last year’s article about UK TV coverage of the Giro d’Italia.
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