How to watch Tour de France Femmes 2025: live stream cycling online from anywhere - stage 9

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France and Team Visma | Lease a Bike celebrates at podium as Yellow leader jersey winner during the 4th Tour de France Femmes 2025, Stage 8 a 111.9km stage from Chambery to Saint-Francois Longchamp - Col de la Madeleine 1986m / #UCIWWT / on August 02, 2025 in Saint-Francois Longchamp, France.
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The Tour de France Femmes 2025 is a nine-stage race featuring some of the world's top female riders competing on a gruelling course. It should be an all-action affair as the teams try to get their leaders into the famous Yellow Jersey.

Want to watch it unfold live? Here's how to watch Tour de France Femmes live streams, free, and from anywhere with a VPN.

Tour de France Femmes 2025: live streams, TV schedule, dates

Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams take place between Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, August 3. Start times vary each day.
• FREE STREAMS SBS (Australia)
• U.S. — Watch on Peacock
Canada — Watch on FloBikes
U.K. — Watch on Discovery+
• Watch anywhere — Try NordVPN (100% risk-free)

After years of waiting, a French rider is finally in the Yellow Jersey and within touching distance of the finish. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot went storming up the Col de la Madeleine to take the Yellow Jersey from Kim Le Court yesterday. With just one stage left, we are on the brink of history - a French rider winning a Tour de France, something the host nation has not enjoyed for four decades.

Stage 9 brings this year’s race to a close. It goes off from Praz-sur-Arly, before coming to an end in Châtel. In between, there are three significant climbs and an intermediate sprint. There is then plenty of action still to come ahead of the winner of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 being confirmed.

Read on for where to watch Tour de France Femme 2025 and live coverage of nine days of top cycling action, wherever you are in the world.

FREE Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams

Cycling fans Down Under can watch the 2025 Tour de France Femmes for free. You can find the free streams on Australia’s SBS (register with an email address).

If you're traveling abroad, you'll need to use a VPN to unblock your usual free stream. We've tried it with NordVPN and it works perfectly.

Non-english free streams are available on Belgium's RTBF and France's France.TV

Watch free Tour de France Femmes live streams from abroad

Away from home and blocked from watching your free cycling stream?

You can still watch the Tour de France Femmes 2025 live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It's the best on the market:

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Using a VPN is incredibly simple.

1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance if you're in the U.S. and want to view a U.K. service, you'd select U.K. from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to SBS or another streaming service, and watch the action.

Watch Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams in the U.S.

2025 Tour de France Femmes live stream — US flag

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Cycling fans in the U.S. can watch the 2025 Tour de France Femmes on Peacock who will have all nine stages. (from $7.99 per month).

CNBC will also be showing the final two stages as the winner is revealed. You can access CNBC via SlingTV.

Sling is king here but other alternatives include DirecTV, and FuboTV or Hulu with Live TV.

And if you're currently out of the U.S. but still want to watch all the stages, then don't forget to explore NordVPN set out above.

Watch the 2025 Tour de France Femmes with Sling TV (50% off)get your first month of Sling Blue half price

Watch the 2025 Tour de France Femmes with Sling TV (50% off)
Sling's Blue TV packages + Live News lets you watch Stages 8 and 9 via CNBC. For a limited time, you can get your first month of Sling Blue half price making it a great way to watch live 2025 Tour de France Femmes action, plus highlights and previews.

Watch Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams in the U.K.

Tour de France Femmes 2025 live stream — British flag

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Cycling fans in the U.K. can watch the 2025 Tour de France Femmes on TNT Sports. To access TNT Sports, you'll either need to add it to your TV package, or you can take out a standalone subscription via Discovery+ which will set you back £30.99 per month, though BT Broadband customers can get a discounted rate.

Australian visiting the U.K.? You can use NordVPN to watch your free SBS stream from abroad.

Watch Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams in Canada

Tour de France Femmes 2025 live stream — Canada flag

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The world feed of this thrilling race race is streaming exclusively in Canada on FloBikes. Watch the Tour de France Femmes and catch the action of every sprint, climb and time trial.

Note, only Canadian customers get access – the U.S. arm of FloBikes doesn't have the rights to the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.

Aussie resident visiting the Great White North? Use NordVPN or another VPN service to trick your device into thinking you're still Down Under so you can watch SBS's Tour de France Femmes stream for free.

Watch Tour de France Femmes 2025 live streams in Australia

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Australian residents are in luck as they will be able to watch all stages of the Tour de France Femmes for free.

SBS on Demand will be your home for the race and you can sign in right now via Google, Facebook or Apple accounts. Simply provide your birth year and gender and watch for free!

If you're away while any of the stages are on, you can still catch the action by using NordVPN.

Tour de France Femmes 2025 stage information

For the first time, there are nine stages of this race. We start in the hills as the riders travel from the Grandes Departs in Vannes to Plumelec. From there, we have three flat stages, which should interest the sprinters. Those are Brest to Quimper, La Gacilly to Angers and Saumer to Poitiers.

After that, the race heads to the mountains. Stage five is Chasseneuil du Poitou Fututroscope to Guéret, with stage stage six going from Clermont Ferrand to Ambert. Stage seven is a hilly one going, from Bourg en Bresse to Chambéry.

The final weekend is in the mountains. Chambéry. to Saint Francois Longchamp and Praz Sur Arly to the final finish in Chatel.

In total there are two flat, two medium mountain, two high mountain and three hilly stages.

A map of the Tour de France Femmes race route.

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Tour de France Femmes 2025 Stages

  • Stage 1: Vannes - Plumelec
  • Stage 2: Brest - Quimper
  • Stage 3: La Gacilly - Angers
  • Stage 4: Saumur - Poitiers
  • Stage 5: Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Futuroscope - Guéret
  • Stage 6: Clermont-Ferrand - Ambert
  • Stage 7: Bourg-en-Bresse - Chambéry
  • Stage 8: Chambéry - Saint François Longchamp - Col de la Madeleine
  • Stage 9: Praz-sur-Arly - Châtel

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