Watch Giro d’Italia live stream 2023
You can watch a live stream of the Giro d’Italia from stages 7, 8 and 9 free on SBS On Demand in Australia. SBS, together with Rai Play in Italy and S4C in Wales, will provide free live coverage of the entire race. You can use a VPN to get your usual stream from anywhere (opens in new tab), even if you are outside your home country. Full details on how to watch the Giro d’Italia from anywhere can be found below.
Giro d’Italia stages 7, 8 & 9 preview
Bring on the most diverse segment of the Giro d’Italia 2023! Stage 7 (today) is the first mountain stage of the race and the joint longest stage overall, while stage 8 (Saturday) is an intermediate stage and stage 9 (Sunday) is the second of three individual time trials. The riders finally get their first day off on Monday.
Team DSM’s Andreas Leknessund is still holding on to the Maglia Rosa after a few exciting stints, with former overall leader Remco Evenepoel 28 seconds behind. It could have ended so much worse for the Soudal-QuickStep rider who hit the asphalt not once but twice on Wednesday.
Trek-Segafredo’s Mads Pedersen somehow won stage 6 when he had no right to, after breakaway riders Simon Clarke and Alessandro De Marchi challenged each other to make a death pact – and it followed with spectacularly devastating consequences.
Stage 7 (218km) leads the peloton to the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountain range in the Apennines, where the riders will face Corno Grande, Corno Piccolo and Pizzo Intermesoli. The 13 percent climb in the low-oxygen twilight zone just before the line promises to be one of the most brutal finishes of the entire Giro.
Then it’s time for the Muro dei Cappuccini, which isn’t nearly as appetizing as it sounds, for stage 8 (207km). It’s a bumpy stage with double digit climbs, tricky descents and a flat finish. However, Evenepoel will try to get back on top on stage 9 (30.7km), a tantalizingly long and flat sprint for glory.
With 21 stages of hard racing over 23 days, it’s the most beautiful torture method on the UCI World Tour. You can view full details of the Giro d’Italia 2023 live stream on our main page or use the information below.
Giro d’Italia free live streams
Lucky cycling fans in Australia, Italy, Wales and Ireland can watch the entire Giro d’Italia for free:
Watch a live stream of the Giro d’Italia anywhere
Most live sports coverage is location sensitive. That means you won’t normally be able to access your usual service when traveling away from home. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a small but powerful app that allows you to select your preferred location and quickly unblock a Giro d’Italia live stream, including the free options, wherever you are.
ExpressVPN is our pick of the best VPN services. It is affordable, fast and easy to use. Try it risk-free for 30 days and see for yourself.
Using a VPN for every live stream of the Giro d’Italia
1. Log in to the VPN of your choice. ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) is the one we recommend for smooth, fast video streaming.
2. Open the VPN app and choose your location. For Giro d’Italia, you can choose ‘Australia’ to unblock SBS On Demand.
3. Then go to SBS on request (opens in new tab) on your browser or device and enjoy that free live stream of the Giro d’Italia.
You could also try NordVPN (opens in new tab)which also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and Surfshark (opens in new tab), which provides assistance 24 hours a day. Both performed very well in our tests.
Watch Giro d’Italia: live stream stages 7, 8 & 9 in the UK
The Giro d’Italia 2023 will be broadcast live Eurosport through Discovery+.
A subscription to Discovery+ (Entertainment & Sport) costs £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year and includes Grand Slam tennis, Grand Tour cycling, snooker and much more.
If you only care about cycling, you can also live stream Giro d’Italia on GCN+, which costs £6.99 a month or £39.99 a year and offers ad-free live coverage of a host of cycling events.
Do not forget: Aussie cycling fans traveling abroad can use a VPN (opens in new tab) to stream the free SBS coverage from abroad. Full details just above.
Watch Giro d’Italia: Live Stream Stages 7, 8 & 9 in the USA
The Giro d’Italia 2023 can be viewed in the US via GCN+.
A subscription costs $8.99 per month or $49.99 per year. That includes live and uninterrupted coverage of men’s and women’s pro cycling throughout the season.
Watch Giro d’Italia: live stream stages 7, 8 & 9 in Canada
GCN+ is also the place to watch live coverage of the Giro d’Italia in Canada.
A subscription costs CA$11.99 per month or CA$59.99 for the whole year, and also gives you coverage for a wide range of UCI events each month.
Remember, you can use a VPN (opens in new tab) to access a local live stream when you are away from home.