The upcoming Tour of Britain Males shall be proven dwell on ITV4, British Biking has introduced.
All six levels of the race, sponsored by Lloyds Financial institution, which begins subsequent Tuesday, 3 September in Kelso, Scotland shall be lined dwell from begin to end, with commentary from the platform’s Tour de France commentators Ned Boulting and David Millar, in addition to presentation from Matt Barbet.
ITV4 can even present a one-hour highlights programme every night, with each the dwell protection and the highlights out there on catch-up on its ITVX platform.
Worldwide followers can even get pleasure from free dwell protection of the Tour of Britain on British Biking’s YouTube channel, which isn’t topic to geo restrictions. There shall be extra worldwide broadcast particulars out there forward of the beginning subsequent week.
The Tour of Britain, which is ranked UCI 2.Professional, options a powerful line-up of groups and riders, with Remco Evenepoel and Julian Alaphilippe (each Soudal Fast-Step), plus Paris Olympics MTB champ Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) set to line up in Kelso on Tuesday.
Bahrain Victorious, dsm-firmenich PostNL, Uno-X Mobility and Israel PremierTech can even be fielding groups, together with home illustration from Saint Piran, Trinity Racing, and the GB nationwide squad.
After the demise of earlier organiser SweetSpot, it had seemed as if the Tour of Britain may very well be unsure. However British Biking has taken the reins, bringing in adjustments together with decreasing its size to from eight to 6 levels to provide parity with the brand new Tour of Britain Ladies.
The 182km hilly first stage within the Scottish Borders begins and finishes in Kelso earlier than the race crosses the border to England for an additional robust stage that takes the riders 152km from Darlington to Redcar.
Issues even out slightly for an undulating 166km third stage from Sheffield to Barnsley, earlier than issues flatten out for stage 4’s 138.5km between Derby and Newark within the Midlands.
The race culminates in a pair of comparatively flat outings. Stage 5 – ‘The West Northamptonshire Stage’ – is predicated on Northampton and takes riders on a 146.9km exploration of the county, earlier than returning to complete within the metropolis.
The Tour of Britain entourage then strikes to Suffolk for a visit down the coast from Lowestoft to Felixstowe. With simply 817m elevation in 158.4km, it is the flattest stage of the race and will provide a nailed-on dash end to finish proceedings.
Final yr’s winner was Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), along with his team-mate Olav Kooij profitable 4 dash levels.
