I understand you don’t like it, but are there any other sports sites that cover professional sports results that don’t show the results on the front page? I’m in the US, and I can’t think of any. Even the local TV stations and newspapers show it on the front page of their websites. I would never go to ESPN or even Twitter or Facebook or Instagram and expect there to be no scores shown.
I’m not saying your request isn’t valid, but I don’t understand why you’re implying it’s unusual.
GCN doesn’t spoil races, and they do lots of racing coverage. I agree that avoiding spoilers shouldn’t be the default for a news site, but providing a way to avoid spoilers for people wanting to do that is fairly straightforward and something they indicated that they would do on discord.
Being unable to reliably avoid spoilers on Flo Cycling is a key reason I cancelled my subscription.
I’ve been happy so far. Good articles, good podcasts. Glad to support them
Happy so far with the content - it validates my pre-100% membership
Now the website just needs RSS feeds to be perfect 
I think that is a bit of an Apples / Oranges comparison. GCN knows that much of their customer base doesn’t / can’t watch races live, so they avoid spoilers.
Going to a news site and not expecting to see the news is just not realistic.
And I am a HUGE proponent of not providing spoilers….but you have to be realistic. I follow a number of cycling accounts across different social platforms and I simply mute those accounts in season. To expect them not so tweet out results is just not realistic. Same for a homepage that provides cycling news and updates. In that case, I feel the onus is on the user to avoid spoilers.
Now, if there is an option for paid members to not have the results on their homepage, I think that is a great solution but I don’t feel it is incumbent on the page to provide that service.
Considering the Escape Collective is “for the people” I’m sure they’ll listen if people ask for change. I bet they have website plans for separation of racing and other 
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It took GCN a while to stop providing spoilers in the titles of their YouTube race highlight videos, and various Pod channels had the problem of putting the spoilers right in the title.
It’s not too hard to keep things one click away for people who don’t want to (or forget to) stay off of any device/website/service. Submit it to them, especially if you’re a member, as a suggestion.
As mentioned above, they’ve already announced that it’s coming.
Hiding the results bar is coming. I’d love to see spoiler free headlines and images too (or an option to hide race results articles), so I can start my day with the EC home page every day. I’ll submit my feedback to them.
Just went to submit that feedback and actually what they’ve announced is a “spoiler free landing page.” Sounds like that will cover my request.
I have no idea how anyone on this earth expects to go to a website that covers bicycle racing and not see the results of bicycle racing.
Those aren’t spoilers. This is fulfilling their mission. From their website:
"That means you’ll get great road racing coverage, lots of tech, tools, and equipment, a bit of gravel, and stories about bike culture in general. World-class coverage of women’s racing is a given, and we like to think we have played a part in making good women’s coverage the norm.
There are tangents, of course. There will be essays sometimes. Our editors will have feelings on occasion. We’ll annoy some dictators and probably the UCI. "
It’s essential for me, spoilers literally stop me visiting cycling sites that include some element of bike racing news.
Sites for other sports are getting better at this, here’s one random soccer/football example:
I backed the project and happy so far… great quality… nevertheless extremely high expectations to keep building on such level and staying ‘neutral’ and honest
This. Thank you. Here’s a novel idea…don’t want to see results, don’t access the internet in any way. Websites, twitter, forums!!, etc.
Exactly. This is the solution. Don’t visit a site that covers cycling news if you don’t want spoilers. A spoiler is when you go to a random site that DOESN’T cover cycling news and someone announces the result where you wouldn’t have expected. We EXPECT cycling sites to covers racing. I guess I am sensitive as I want Excape Collective to be successful and I have never seen this expectation/criticism on a Velonews or Cyclingnews.
Imagine the day after a huge race like Paris Roubaix - what would the headlines and stories be if they couldn’t spoil the race result???
Steephilltv(rip) had a default non-spoiler mode.
Agreed. Someone said GCN doesn’t do spoilers, so I went to their page and all the headlines were things like “see which sprinter won race X today”. To me that’s no different than just saying “Ewan won today”. I don’t see any difference at all.
This is where I disagree….using this forum as an example, the majority of the discussion here is not race result related. A “spoiler policy” makes sense here, as it allows everyone to always participate in the forum and discussions.
GCN (actually GCN_racing) pretty consistently show the end of the biggest races on thier Instagram stories. I quite like it, as I often want to know who wins and it’s nice to see the last mibute or so of the race.
If I don’t want a spoiler from a race, I tend to stay off all social media and cycling news sites until I’ve watched the race. My cycling buddies group chat also has a 12hr rule for spoilers (i.e. no talking about races until 12 hours after they’ve finished). It seems pretty simple to avoid.
This article alone was worth my $100….the most Ian article ever. 
