Eurosport To Screen Zwift Tour For All
Eurosport and Global Cycling Network (GCN) have announced that the pair will be screening live cycling with the inclusion of Zwift’s Tour for All exhibition racing series.
The professional racing tour, which is set to be held over five stages from 4th – 8th May on the Zwift virtual platform, will feature teams from both the men’s and women’s World Tours.
Each stage will be available live on Eurosport’s platforms and will also be streamed globally on the GCN app.
“During the current pause in live sport, Discovery is bringing to the fore its creativity and partnership building credentials to bring fans the type of live content they’ve been missing,” said Andrew Georgiou, President, Eurosport and Global Sports Rights & Sports Marketing Solutions.
“We are going beyond the archive to offer something completely new that will bring together cycling fans on mass with new stories and unpredictable moments at every turn.
“Through this series, we aim to leverage Discovery’s unrivalled global scale, brands and channel portfolio as part of a deeper collaboration between Eurosport and GCN to bring new and larger audiences to cycling so they can experience the thrills of the sport first-hand.”
Both the men’s and women’s competitions will be shown each day between 2-4 pm BST and will include teams such as Mitchelton-Scott, EF-Education, NTT, Alpecin-Fenix, and Bahrain-McLaren.
Teams and the top 25 riders will gain points across the week alongside a daily individual race winner. Organisers have said there will also be intermediate points on each stage and double points for the top 10 finishers on the tour’s Queen Stage – Stage Five.
Eric Min, Zwift CEO and Co-Founder said: “I’m thrilled to finally be able to announce this new exhibition series in conjunction with GCN and Eurosport, bringing high level racing and top class entertainment to the world’s cycling fans.
“Over the past few months, we’ve delivered a huge number of unique experiences and opportunities to ride with the stars of the World Tour peloton. I know many have been keen to see when Zwift will bring World Tour teams together to race, and I can’t think of a better way to deliver this series of Men’s and Women’s exhibition racing than to kick off our charity month, Tour for All in support of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).”
Stages will range in distance from approximately 45km to 75km and approximately 400m and 1700m in elevation with race times estimated to be between one hour 15 minutes and two hours, depending on the distance and elevation of each stage.
