The last Ardennes classic and fourth monument of the season can be considered the climax and finale of the spring classics. La Doyenne, as it's known, is a race suited to the puncheurs and climbers, which every year brings in very illustrious startlists.
You will be able to watch Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes in the following outlets and times (CET time):
Sporza: 11:25 - 13:00
RTBF: 11:25 - 13:30
GCN+: 11:30 - 13:00
Eurosport Player: 11:30 - 13:00
Eurosport 1: 11:35 - 12:45
Rai Sport: 11:35 - 13:00
As for the men's race, it will be broadcasted right afterwards, and you will be able to follow it in (CET time):
GCN+: 13:30 - 17:30
Eurosport 1: 13:30 - 17:00
Eurosport Player: 13:30 - 17:30
Sporza: 13:30 - 17:00
RTBF: 13:35 - 17:50
Rai Sport: 14:30 - 15:40
Rai 2: 15:40 - 17:10
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- Ah yes, what a completely 'dismal' season Visma LAB have had. How terrible of them to casually win Paris-Roubaix, the Giro d'Italia plus 6 stages, Paris-Nice, Volta a Catalunya, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, the Tour of Denmark, and a staggering 7 stages plus the Green Jersey at the Vuelta, not to mention the myriad of other races they've bagged this season. If winning a monument and Grand Tour titles is a 'free fall,' half the peloton (including Ineos) would love to plummet off that cliff. Check the actual calendar before inventing your own reality, Mou.anonymouscyclist04-10-2026
- Could be worse, like Visma. Staff, riders and coaches all leaving mid contract. Visma is in free fall look in TDF how irrelevant they are now..vuelta and small races only place they can compete if the bset dont arrive these days its sad.miguel04-10-2026
- Thats just factually wrong. (also if we just remove the best rider on a certain team is a fictual thing to say in the first place and shows how delulu and far off reality ur take is, doesnt work klike that UAE bread and made pogacra into best ever his domestiques beat other captains for fun in montreal and wc - cant have fictioon in the debate if you wanne be taken serious thats not how reality works) Take away pogacar and uae still far ahead on UCI points...look montreal other teams captains cant win vs UAE domestiques haha in both montrela and WC its crazy - the rest simply got some job do tod. RBH and Lidl are closest tho as of now. Besides if you look further Visma isnt top 3. Roster of RBH and Lidl way better. In fact visma boss out saying they struggle and cant keep up financially and it show. They have no climbers on the team no top 10 in TDF even when jonas is out says it all, also jonas was isolated non stop when other team wasnt, its really easy to get Visma is falling apart and not a top 3 team anymore. Dude staff and riders are fleeing away from visma and quit mid contract...something is off.miguel04-10-2026
- The mental slap he got in Kigali will remain with him for a long time and it’s not that he was having that bad a day seeing how few riders were faster. Seems a lot of people like to push stuff under carpets, and as we seem to always have to connect everything to America these days (isn’t MAGAA better in retrospect? Make America Get Attention Again) isn’t it funny how fast people stopped discussing the assasination, it’s almost as if it’s been normalised.Jumpyjohn04-10-2026
- Thomas is killing this team......
Senna196004-10-2026 - Thank you, almost as if someone reads my posts ;-) The trouble with cycling news is people focus more on form than content. I know there isn’t always much but sometimes the missing is quite interesting and important to understand the scene.Jumpyjohn04-10-2026
- I couldn't find the race broadcast anywhere so highlights will have to do. I have watched, several times, the rider send-off for Nairo Quintana, and I still haven't made it through without getting choked up. It's a beautiful tradition in a beautiful sport. Nairo was a champion and a gentleman. I'll miss him.megasmacky04-10-2026
- Jawohl Herr Doktor Professor! So, you include a bunch leaving, a bunch of Austrians, hypothesise poaching someone away from another more German team (I wonder how well that will go down), forget to mention or put into comparisn with how many Italians or Danes are on the team and you call this proof of being a German team? By that measure I now proclaim Uno-X to be Danish and can understand why Trump thinks Greenland should be his, or if not, American. They probably don’t even use German as a first language. Maybe in 3-4 years if this is their aim but considering how many times this team has already changed « «nationality » in the past, let’s wait and see. I expected some serious or official information as to why Germany was chosen not why somebody feels there’s some relation, I already saw that with one of the sponsors. PS please don’t make me check how many white guys are listed in the football team. Sorry for the harschness but if you’re observant and not too sensitive (and today it’s best not to be) you’ll see some hidden humour in this.Jumpyjohn04-10-2026
- They have Patrick Konrad, Lennard Kämna, Tim Torn Teutenberg (leaving for Soudal), Max Walscheid (retiring). Felix Gall, Gregor Mühlberger, Georg Zimmermann are all incoming aswell as Grischa Niermann. They've got Benedikt Benz and Louis Leidart in the Devo squad. I don't think they'll pull off the Lipowitz heist but they are certainly a very German team
Rafionain-Glas04-10-2026 - Piganzoli's win today, with a strong assist from Jorgensen, is just more weight against your claim. They still have one of the two best GC riders in the world, one of the 2 best classics riders, and one of the top sprinters...plus elite domestiques and a development squad as deep as any. Take away Tadej Pogacar and Visma is still as strong as any team in the world.MidnightRider04-10-2026
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