Paris 2024 Olympic Games cycling schedule: when to watch the racing

Schedule for every single cycling event at the Olympics

The men's peloton in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics road race
The men's peloton in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics road race
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The 2024 Paris Olympics are almost upon us already, with 22 gold medals on offer across the fortnight for people on bikes.

Cycling takes place almost all the way through from start to finish with road cycling one of the opening events of the Games.

The day after the opening ceremony the men's and women's time trials take place on a 32.4km route into Paris, before the road races take place the next weekend.

There is also a lot of  track cycling, which takes place between 5 August and the final day of the Games on 11 August. There are six track events: the team pursuit, the omnium, the Madison, the sprint, the team sprint, and the keirin.

Elsewhere, there'll be the women's and men's cross-country mountain biking races, which take place on Sunday 28 July and Monday 29 July, respectively.

Finally there's the two BMX events, making their return for the second time, Freestyle and the Racing. The Freestyle takes place on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 July, with the Racing on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 August.

Paris 2024 Olympics cycling schedule (France time)

Road races

  • Saturday 3 August, men's road race, 10am-5:15pm CEST, (273km)
  • Sunday 4 August, women's road race, 1pm-5:45pm CEST (158km)

Time trials

  • Saturday 27 July, men's and women's individual time trials, 2:30pm-6:30pm CEST (both 32.4km)

Track - Monday 5 August, 5pm-7:40pm CEST

  • Women's Team Sprint, qualifying
  • Men's, Team Pursuit, qualifying
  • Women's Team Sprint, first round
  • Men's Team Sprint, qualifying
  • Women's Team Sprint, finals

Track - Tuesday 6 August, 5:30pm-7:55pm CEST

  • Women's Team Pursuit, qualifying
  • Men's Team Sprint, first round
  • Men's Team Pursuit, first round
  • Men's Team Sprint, finals

Track - Wednesday 7 August, 12:45pm-3.30pm CEST

  • Men's Sprint, qualifying
  • Women's Keirin, first round
  • Women's Team Pursuit, first round
  • Men's Sprint, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals, and 1/8 finals and repechanges
  • Women's Keirin, first round and repechages
  • Men's Team Pursuit, finals
  • Women's Team Pursuit, finals

Track - Thursday 8 August, 5:30pm-7:55pm CEST

  • Men's Omnium, Scratch Race 1\4
  • Men's Sprint, quarter finals
  • Women's Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals, and finals
  • Men's Sprint, quarter finals
  • Men's Omnium, Tempo Race 2\4
  • Men's Omnium, Elimination Race 3\4
  • Men's Omnium, Points Race 4\4

Track - Friday 9 August, 2:30pm-3:45pm CEST

  • Women's Sprint, qualifying
  • Men's Sprint, semi finals, and finals
  • Women's Sprint, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals and repechages
  • Women's Madison, final
  • Women's Sprint 1/16 Finals

Track - Saturday, 10 August, 5:00pm-7:55pm CEST

  • Women's Sprint, 1/8 finals, and quarter finals
  • Men's Keirin, first round and repechages
  • Men's Keirin Repechages
  • Men's Madison, final

Track - Sunday, 11 August, 11:00am-2:15pm CEST

  • Women's Omnium, Scratch Race 1/4
  • Women's Sprint, semi finals and finals
  • Men's Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals and finals
  • Women's Omnium, Tempo Race 2/4
  • Women's Omnium. Elimination Race 3/4
  • Women's Omnium. Points Race 4/4

BMX

  • Tuesday 30 July, BMX Freestyle Qualification, 12:25pm
  • Wednesday 31 July, BMX Freestyle Finals, 12:10pm
  • Thursday 1 August, BMX Racing Qualifiers, 7pm
  • Friday 2 August, BMX Racing Finals, 7pm

MTB

  • Sunday 28 July, Women's Cross Country, 1pm
  • Monday 29 July, Men's Cross Country, 1pm

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW in 2021 he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to riding bikes.