The UCI Mountain Bike World Series season starts this weekend in Brazil, with back to back cross-country rounds. After the two rounds in Brazil, the gravity side of things will begin on the first weekend of May in Fort William, followed by the first round of Enduro in Finale Ligure on May 10-12.
GCN+ service and GCN App closed in December 2024, with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) chooses to consolidate its streaming services and have more sports and entertainment content in one place. With the closure of the app, UCI Mountain Bike World Series will be available on Max, Eurosport and Discovery+ channels (in selected markets) as well as on a number of local/national broadcasters, listed below, for 2024.
In Europe and the UK, the races will be streamed via the Discovery+ app and Eurosport and the standard subscription you will be asked to sign up for cycling, which appears to cost £6.88 GBP per month.
In the US, viewers must subscribe to the basic version of Max and then select the B/R Sports add-on. Looking at the breaking the plan offered by Warner Bros. Discover the cheapest way to get your racing fix will be to subscribe to the basic option “with ads” which costs $9.99 USD per month and then add the sports package for another $9.99 USD per month. With the latest update, US race fans will now need to spend between $19.98 and $25.98 per month to watch the World Cup. The change marks a big increase from the $8.99 monthly cost of GCN+ for the 2024 season.
In Canada, FloBikes has partnered with Warner Brothers to broadcast World Cup events for Canadians. A monthly FloBikes pass is $29.99 USD and an annual pass is $12.50 USD per month ($150 USD per year / $235 CDN including taxes).
Many fans in South America will be able to watch the race Clear Sports, although TNT Sports will be the broadcaster for Brazil. In China, the broadcaster is Zhibo.tv.
If you have subscription fatigue, you can follow the live results on the UCI website and stay tuned to the Pinkbike homepage for content from Ben Cathro, Photo Epics, race highlights, and more. You can also watch the U23 XCO races, Junior DH races, and Elite Semi-Finals DH on the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series YouTube page. here.
Warner Brothers Discovery, ESPN and Fox have announced plans to join forces for a new sports streaming servicebut which is currently not scheduled to launch until the end of the 2024 season.
Austria – Eurosport channels, discovery +
Belgium – Eurosport channels
Bolivia – Sure
Brazil – TNT Sports, YouTube Channel
Bulgaria – Eurosport channels
Canada – Flosports
Chile – Sure
China – Zhibo.tv
Colombia – Sure
Costa Rica – Sure
Czech Republic – Eurosport Channels, Czech TV
Denmark – Eurosport channels, TV Czech
Dominican Republic – Clear
Ecuador – Sure
El Salvador – Sure
Finland – Eurosport channels
France – Eurosport Channels, L’Equipe
Germany – Eurosport channels, discovery +
Greece – Eurosport channels
Guatemala – Clear
Honduras – Sure
Hungary – Eurosport channels
Ireland {Republic} – discovery+
Italy – Eurosport channels, discovery+
Mexico City – Claro
Netherlands – discovery +
Nicaragua – Sure
Norway – Eurosport channels
Panama – Sure
Paraguay – Claro
Peru – Sure
Poland – Eurosport channels
Portugal – Eurosport channels
Romania – Eurosport channels
Serbia – Eurosport channels
Spain – Eurosport channels
Sweden – Eurosport channels
Switzerland – Eurosport Channels, SRG
Turkey – Eurosport channels
Uganda – Sure
United Kingdom – Eurosport channels, discovery +
United States (including American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands) – Max
Uruguay – Claro
Venezuela – Sure
Notably, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa do not currently have a broadcast partner. Australian Rebecca Henderson won the season opener the last time the race was in Brazil and Sam Gaze, Anton Cooper, Greg Minnaar, and Troy Brosnan are just a few other top drivers from those three countries that the his fans will be disappointed to hear this news. Australia-based Flow Mountain Bike took a deeper dive to look at mountain biking from that region here.
