Tom Pidcock doubles up at Paris 2024 as GB announce cycling squad

The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced on Monday (24 June) the first 20 cyclists who will represent Team GB at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Thursday 4 July saw the final 12 cyclists announced that will make up the 30-strong squad across BMX freestyle and BMX racing, road racing, track cycling, and mountain bike.

Tom Pidcock leads the way, nominated for two cycling disciplines – defending his mountain bike title from Tokyo 2020, and also taking on the men's road race. He'll have had quite the training sessions leading up to the XXXIII Olympiad, having just finished the three-week-long Tour de France on Sunday 21 July.

The opening ceremony commences on Friday 26 July, with mountain bike taking place from 28-29 July, and the road race on 3 August.

Presumably the 24-year-old, who turns 25 in the break between his two Olympic events, will take the longest of holidays to recover post-Games.

Joining him will be three other Olympic medallists and 10 debutants from track, road, and mountain bike disciplines.

The announcement on 4 July, includes seven Olympic medallists and five debutants including defending champions Charlotte Worthington in BMX freestyle, and Beth Shriever in BMX racing.

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Mountain bike and track cycling Team GB athletes for Paris 2024

The GB mountain bike team have secured the maximum four entries for the first time when they take to Elancourt Hill, the highest point in the Paris region, at an altitude of 231 metres (750 feet). From atop the course, riders will be able to spy the Eiffel Tower before turning their focus to careering down the run at pace.

Commonwealth Games champion and seventh-place finisher in mountain bike at Tokyo 2020, Evie Richards, will be joined by rising star and Olympic debutant Ella Maclean-Howell in the women’s discipline, with under-23 world champion, Charlie Aldridge, joining Pidcock in the men's event.

In the men's road race, a trio of Olympic first-timers will join Pidcock, with 2023 national road champion Fred Wright, Stevie Williams, and Josh Tarling, taking to the streets of France's capital for the 273 km-long race.

Tarling will also feature in the men's time trial discipline, a gun-to-tape charge that drains every reserve of energy a rider thinks they might have, before drawing on untapped deeper reserves. The European champion and world bronze medallist will be joined by Ethan Hayter who will then take to the track to join the men's endurance squad.

Hayter, an Olympic silver medallist in the madison in Japan, will be joined by Ollie Wood, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and debutant Dan Bigham at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, with the quintet set to vie for a medal in the men's team pursuit.

The first GB women’s sprint trio to feature at an Olympic Games since London 2012 sees the experienced Katy Marchant head to her third Olympics. Her aim is a second Olympic medal after winning bronze in the women's madison at Rio 2016.

World and European individual sprint champion, Emma Finucane, who looks set to break into the wider Olympic consciousness in the UK come the end of Paris 2024, will make her Olympic debut alongside Sophie Capewell.

Tokyo silver and bronze medallist Jack Carlin heads up the men’s edition at his second Games, alongside debutants Hamish Turnbull and 20-year-old Ed Lowe.

After a delay to the announcement of the endurance riders on the track due to the unfortunate injury to Katie Archibald, the riders have now been announced.

Elinor Barker will compete at her third Games, while Neah Evans and Josie Knight return for a second time. Anna Morris and Jess Roberts will make their Olympic debuts and join the team who secured a team pursuit silver medal in Tokyo.

Lizzie Deignan returns for a fourth Olympic Games

The women's road race will be contested by three-time Olympian, Lizzie Deignan, a silver medallist in the individual event at London 2012. Three-time national champion Pfeiffer Georgi, and Morris will all be vying for podium places, while Anna Henderson, will take on the time trial.

Shriever, who has claimed two world crowns since her history-making moment in Tokyo, will defend the women’s BMX racing title having recovered from a recent collarbone injury. While Olympic silver medallist Kye Whyte, who formed the second part of memorable scenes in Japan when he picked up an exhuasted Shriever at race end, also returns.

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Worthington will be back to defend her Olympic BMX freestyle title alongside men's world champion Kieran Reilly, an Olympic debutant.

Full Team GB cycling squad for Paris 2024

Men’s BMX Freestyle Park
Kieran Reilly
Women’s BMX Freestyle Park
Charlotte Worthington
Men’s BMX Racing
Kye Whyte
Ross Cullen (travelling reserve)
Women’s BMX Racing
Beth Shriever
Emily Hutt (travelling reserve)
Women’s road
Lizzie Deignan
Pfeiffer Georgi
Anna Henderson (TT)
Anna Morris
Women’s track endurance
Elinor Barker
Neah Evans
Josie Knight
Anna Morris
Jess Roberts
Meg Barker (travelling reserve)
Men’s mountain bike
Charlie Aldridge
Tom Pidcock
Women’s mountain bike
Ella Maclean-Howell
Evie Richards
Men’s road
Ethan Hayter (TT)
Tom Pidcock
Josh Tarling (TT/RR)
Stevie Williams
Fred Wright
Men’s track endurance
Dan Bigham
Ethan Hayter
Charlie Tanfield
Ethan Vernon
Ollie Wood
Mark Stewart (travelling reserve)
Men’s track sprint
Jack Carlin
Ed Lowe
Hamish Turnbull
Joe Truman (travelling reserve)
Women’s track sprint
Sophie Capewell
Emma Finucane
Katy Marchant
Lowri Thomas (travelling reserve)