Reside Unbound protection is again! After FloSport’s protection of the Life Time Grand Prixgot here to an abrupt finish halfway by means of the 2022 season, protection of the world’s premier gravel race, Unbound Gravel, was restricted to social media, the place followers may catch solely scattered glimpses and shaky sideline footage 30 seconds at a time. However this 12 months, that each one adjustments.
Now in its nineteenth 12 months, Unbound Gravel has grown into the world’s marquee gravel occasion, providing 5 race distances starting from 25 to 350 miles and drawing greater than 4,000 registered riders to the middle-of-nowhere, Kansas. The race attracts amateurs and elite professionals alike, together with Grand Tour winners, world champions, Classics victors and Olympians from across the globe, all chasing glory within the notorious Flint Hills.
Whereas competitors is fierce in each distance, the 200-mile race is the celebrated flagship occasion the place biking careers are solid (or prolonged) and winners grow to be legends. But regardless of the race’s rising standing, the battles within the Flint Hills have largely gone unseen. Till now
For the primary time ever, the elite males’s and girls’s 200-mile Unbound Gravel races might be broadcast dwell, in full, to a worldwide viewers with out paywalls or georestrictions.
The occasion’s producer, Life Time, has introduced it should stream seven full hours of dwell protection of the 2025 Unbound Gravel introduced by Shimano solely on the Life Time Grand Prix YouTube channel. The protection kicks off at 10:00 a.m. CT on Saturday, Could 31, with a pre-show earlier than leaping into uninterrupted race motion and post-race interviews.
“At Life Time, we’re targeted on elevating the game of biking at each degree, and bringing dwell, free-to-stream protection […] is a serious step in that journey. With real-time storytelling, professional commentary, and a worldwide viewers tuning in, we’re dedicated to creating this iconic race extra accessible and interesting,” stated Kimo Seymour, Life Time Senior Vice President of Media & Occasions, in an announcement.
2024 girls’s elite winner, Rosa Kloser, is welcomed dwelling by a mob of photographers
(Picture credit score: Life Time)
Commentary might be supplied by Life Time Grand Prix athlete Payson McElveen, who’s presently sidelined attributable to an harm he sustained on the collection’ opening spherical at Sea Otter, and Meredith Miller, a former U.S. street and cyclocross professional. Longstanding biking announcer Invoice Elliston will be a part of the 2 athletes within the commentary field, whereas Mountain Bike Corridor of Famer Nat Ross and former professional Lauren Corridor might be offering dwell updates from the course.
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Because the legend of Unbound Gravel continues to develop, this 12 months’s elite races are once more stacked with world-class expertise. Former Unbound winners Keegan Swenson and Sofía Gómez Villafañe have actually proven glorious type within the opening spherical of the Life Time Grand Prix, however the competitors at Unbound options quite a few out-of-series contenders. Defending girls’s champion Rosa Klöser from Germany is again to guard her crown, whereas Grand Tour stage winner Thomas De Gendt of Belgium will make his Unbound debut. And since final 12 months’s males’s winner Lachlan Morton has opted out of the 200-mile occasion in favour of a good greater problem, this 12 months’s males’s race guarantees a contemporary champion, and there are a lot desirous to seize the chance.
For these unable to observe the complete broadcast, prolonged highlights of each the lads’s and girls’s elite races might be posted on the Life Time Grand Prix YouTube channel within the days following the occasion.
