Who is riding the men's road race at the Paris Olympic Games?

The world's best road cyclists will finally converge this weekend at the men's and women's Paris Olympic Games road races, following an unaccustomed three-year wait since the last Games in Tokyo.

Among the big favourites are two riders from Belgium – Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert, who have both already won medals in the time trial, Evenepoel striking gold, Van Aert bronze. 

Evenepoel's win in that event was all the more impressive due to coming just a week after he finished third in the Tour de France.

The men who beat him in that race, Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia and Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, will not be in Paris though, having chosen to sit this one out. Pogačar's absence in particular has raised eyebrows, with the non-selection of his girlfriend Urška Zigart apparently playing a role in his decision not to attend.

The British assault features a strong four-man team including Tom Pidcock – who has already won mountain bike gold at Paris – and Josh Tarling, whose heartbreakingly unlucky puncture in the time trial cost him a medal. They will be accompanied by super-climber Stevie Williams and strong all-rounder Fred Wright.

Great Britain is one of only five teams who have qualified the maximum four riders for the event – the others being Belgium, France, Slovenia and Denmark.

The USA's three-man team features Tour de France star Matteo Jorgensen, accompanied by Magnus Sheffield and Brandon McNulty.

This race is not all about the same old big names from the same old major cycling nations though, and there will be 89 participants from a total of 52 countries from all over the world.

Paris Olympic Games 2024 men's road race start list

Belgium
EVENEPOEL Remco
VAN AERT Wout
STUYVEN Jasper
BENOOT Tiesj

Great Britain
TARLING Joshua
WRIGHT Fred
WILLIAMS Stephen
PIDCOCK Thomas

United States
MCNULTY Brandon
JORGENSON Matteo
SHEFFIELD Magnus

Slovenia
TRATNIK Jan
MEZGEC Luka
MOHORIČ Matej
NOVAK Domen

France
VAUQUELIN Kévin
MADOUAS Valentin
LAPORTE Christophe
ALAPHILIPPE Julian

Spain
ARANBURU Alex
AYUSO Juan
LAZKANO Oier

Netherlands
HOOLE Daan
VAN BAARLE Dylan
VAN DER POEL Mathieu

Italy
BETTIOL Alberto
MOZZATO Luca
VIVIANI Elia

Australia
CLARKE Simon
O'CONNOR Ben
MATTHEWS Michael

Switzerland
KÜNG Stefan
HIRSCHI Marc

Portugal
COSTA Rui
OLIVEIRA Nelson

Colombia
BUITRAGO Santiago
MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe

Norway
WÆRENSKJOLD Søren
FOSS Tobias

Germany
POLITT Nils
SCHACHMANN Maximilian

Austria
HALLER Marco
GROßSCHARTNER Felix

Ireland
HEALY Ben
MULLEN Ryan

Canada
WOODS Michael
GEE Derek

Kazakhstan
LUTSENKO Alexey
FEDOROV Yevgeniy

New Zealand
PITHIE Laurence
STRONG Corbin

Eritrea
GIRMAY Biniam

Individual Neutral Athletes
SYRITSA Gleb

Ecuador
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan

Poland
ANIOŁKOWSKI Stanisław

Hungary
VALTER Attila

Latvia
SKUJIŅŠ Toms

Morocco
ED DOGHMY Achraf

Czech Republic
VACEK Mathias

Mongolia
SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts

Japan
ARASHIRO Yukiya

Algeria
HAMZA Yacine

Slovakia
KUBIŠ Lukáš

Uzbekistan
BOCHAROV Dmitriy

Luxembourg
KIRSCH Alex

Venezuela
AULAR Orluis

Israel
EINHORN Itamar

Estonia
MIHKELS Madis

Turkey
ABAY Burak

Panama
ARCHIBOLD Franklin

Thailand
CHAIYASOMBAT Thanakhan

Argentina
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo

Ukraine
BUDYAK Anatoliy

China
LYU Xianjing

Iran
LABIB SHOTORBAN Ali

Hong Kong
LAU Wan Yau Vincent

Rwanda
MANIZABAYO Eric

South Korea
KIM Euro

Denmark
BJERG Mikkel
SKJELMOSE Mattias
PEDERSEN Mads
MØRKØV Michael

Brazil
RANGEL Vinicius

Uruguay
FAGÚNDEZ Eric Antonio

Sweden
SÖDERQVIST Jakob

South Africa
GIBBONS Ryan

Serbia
ILIĆ Ognje

Greece
BOUGLAS Georgios