Watching the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in Canada

Even though the men’s Tour de France is over for another year, the racing continues with the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The women’s version, which comprises 8 stages, started on July 24 and continues until July 31. You can watch all (or most) of the action on FloBikes (see previous post on subscription streaming service). I have been enjoying the race the last couple days, unfortunately other than the first stage, coverage on FloBikes usually only begins about 1-1.5 hours after the official start of the race. This may be because the international feed that FloBikes is re-streaming does not cover the whole race. Although the first hour or so is usually uneventful, I feel that you are missing out on the whole experience of the race if you can only start watching it after it has already begun. Hopefully this will change for future stages.

Watching the Tour de France in Canada

Although, I am not a big sports fan there are a few events that keep me glued to the television; these are the Olympics and the Tour de France. In Canada, both the Summer and Winter Olympics are covered off quite well, at least in the past several years by the CBC on cable and on-line (see previous posts). Watching the Tour de France in Canada over the last few years, though has been a bit more of a challenge.

Previous to 2020, various broadcasters (e.g. TSN, Sportsnet) provided coverage of the Tour de France (TDF) on cable and satellite in Canada. Starting in 2020 though, FloBikes, acquired the sole Canadian streaming rights to the TDF until 2023. So, if you want to watch the Tour de France in Canada at least the next two editions of it, you will have to subscribe to FloBikes.

If you want to find out if I think a subscription to FloBikes is worth it, read on here…