How to watch the Giro dell'Emilia – live stream, TV, results

While Milan-San Remo, Strade Bianche and Il Lombardia are behind us, the Italian Classics season continues on Tuesday with the men's and women's editions of the Giro dell’Emilia – the last major Italian one-day race of August.

Vincenzo Nibali (opens in new tab) (Trek-Segafredo), Richard Carapaz (Team Ineos) and Jakob Fuglsang (opens in new tab) (Astana) will headline the 103rd edition of the men's race, while Demi Vollering (Parkhotel Valkenburg), Kasia Niewiadoma (opens in new tab) (Canyon-SRAM) and Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) are among the big names at the women's race.

Cyclingnews will be bringing you full live coverage, reports, results and news during the race. Read on to find out how to watch the Giro dell'Emilia via live stream, no matter your location, with ExpressVPN (opens in new tab).

Nibali, Carapaz and Fuglsang – all among the favourites for this year's Giro d'Italia – will be joined on the start line by Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates), 2017 winner Giovanni Visconti (Vini Zabu-KTM) and Ben King (NTT Pro Cycling).

Ineos bring a strong squad along with Carapaz, as Eddie Dunbar, Iván Sosa, Tao Geoghegan Hart (opens in new tab) and Gianni Moscon all compete. Likewise, Trek-Segafredo will have Giulio Ciccone and Gianluca Brambilla at the start. Young talent João Almeida leads Deceuninck-QuickStep.

At the women's race, past winners Elisa Longo Borghini (opens in new tab) (Trek-Segafredo), Tatiano Guderzo (Alé-BTC-Cipollini) and Rasa Leleivyte (Aromitalia Vaiano) will join Vollering, Deignan and Niewiadoma, as will Sofia Bertizzolo (CCC-Liv) and Elisa Balsamo (Valcar-Travel & Service).

The race finishes atop the San Luca climb in Bologna, although the women's course is a flat run to the hill, while the men will tackle a far hillier race, which takes in five ascents of San Luca.

Check below for all the details of how to watch all the action at the Giro dell'Emilia.

Giro dell'Emilia live stream

Follow Cyclingnews on Twitter (opens in new tab), Facebook (opens in new tab) and Instagram (opens in new tab) for alerts on important stories and action during the race.

The Giro dell'Emilia will not be aired internationally, as only Rai Sport 2 (opens in new tab) in Italy will be showing the men's race, as well as a summary of the women's race.

If you live outside a broadcast zone or are on holiday outside your country and find that the live streams to be geo-restricted, you can get around this by getting access to them by simulating being back in your home country via a 'virtual private network', or VPN, for your laptop, tablet or mobile.

TechRadar tested hundreds of VPNs and recommends the number-one VPN currently available as Express VPN. With ExpressVPN (opens in new tab), you can watch on many devices at once including Smart TVs, Fire TV Stick, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android phone, iPads, tablets, etc.

Race schedule

Start: 11:30 CEST / 05:30 EST

Finish: 16:15-16:45 CEST / 10:15-10:45 EST