The road riders take center stage once again at the Olympic games with the time trial. Who can win gold and who is in with a shot of a medal? VeloNews takes a look at some of the contenders.

Anna van der Breggen and Filippo Ganna start last, respectively, in the official start times for Wednesday's time trial races.

Jolanda Neff rode a pitch-perfect race to take gold as the Swiss team swept up all three podium places, while the French team struggled through a difficult day.

The current MTB world champ talks Olympics, Kate Courtney, and her emotional roller coaster after 2016.

Expect a showdown from Team France and Team USA, as Pauline Ferrand Prevot, Loana Lecomte, and Kate Courtney position themselves for gold.

Here's what Mathias Flückiger, Chris Blevins, and others said after the multi-talented British rider won Olympic gold.

Newly crowned gold medalist Thomas Pidcock promises to race at cyclocross worlds in Arkansas, while German star languishes in Tokyo hotel following COVID diagnosis.

Five years ago, the Dutchwoman was in a hospital after a horror crash at the Rio Olympics. With silver in Tokyo, she's completed a chapter in her journey that saw her become one of the world's best riders.

Evie Richards enjoyed a breakthrough ride at elite level in 2020 and less than a year later she is making her debut at the Olympic Games, fulfilling a long-held dream.

For better or worse? The absence of race radios in Olympic competition shaped the outcome of the women's road race in a big way.

Pidcock’s Olympic gold medal adds fuel to a fierce fight across three disciplines with van der Poel.

Anna Kiesenhofer was far from the radar of the big favorites for the women's Olympic road race, but the Austrian took gold and did it strictly on her own terms. Who is the new Olympic road race champion?

Tour de France yellow jersey Mathieu van der Poel says he thought a ramp used during training on a big rock drop would still be there during the race.

Pidcock attacked the field off his wheel while van der Poel crashed heavily in first lap and eventually abandoned. Mathias Flueckiger secured silver.

From the Dutch disaster to Anna Kiesenhofer's sacrifice: Here's what the stars said after Sunday's road race shocker.

Annemiek Van Vleuten makes history with bittersweet silver, and Mathieu van der Poel revs up for mountain bike race.

Van Vleuten cheered a ‘victory’ as she crossed the line, unaware that Anna Kiesenhofer had already taken gold.

Austrian rider punched into day's early breakaway and dropped her fellow escapees before launching a 41km time trial into Olympic gold.

Richard Carapaz is Ecuador's second Olympic medalist, Brandon McNulty hits best US result since 2012, and how Tour de France riders fared in the Olympics.

From another costly crash by Geraint Thomas to Wout van Aert being out-maneuvered, here's what the starts said after extra-tough race around Tokyo.

Ecuadorian ace cements spot at top of the pro peloton with an Olympic medal that reconfirms a palmarès brimming with grand tour success.

Sixth place in elite men's road race best since Taylor Phinney was fourth in 2012 for USA Cycling.

Carapaz distances Brandon McNulty in final to triumph in Tokyo. Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogačar round out the podium.

The 29-athlete squad will compete across 12 different sports. Masomah Ali Zada and Ahmad Badreddin Wais are its two road riders.

There are only a few five-star favorites for the 2021 men's Olympic road race. We ranked 68 riders for Saturday's event.

And the 23-year-old is already looking to inspire the next generation.

The Australian time trial champion has had to come back from a huge setback to make her dream come true in Tokyo after she broke her collarbone, fibula, and elbow in a crash in April.

Tom Pidcock has been training in a tent in the spare room of his apartment to prepare for the heat of Tokyo in his bid for Olympic glory.

With prestige and national honor on the line, the Olympics count for lot more than they used to among the top pros.

Dumoulin will have big decisions to make about his future as a cyclist after racing for gold in the Tokyo Olympic time trial next week.

The Dutch riders are the overwhelming favorites for gold in Tokyo, but they will not get it all their own way and there are plenty of riders ready to upset the form book.

The Clif Pro Team rider has learned to embrace her bi-culturalism on and off the bike.

Coryn Rivera, Amber Neben, Ruth Winder, and Leah Thomas give us snapshots from the road cyclists' Olympic village.

Tokyo will be the fifth Olympic Games for Alejandro Valverde, and presents an ideal course for him to be considered a favorite for gold.

A look at the MTB course for the Tokyo Olympics

USA Cycling brings two starters against a field packed with European 'superpowers' for the elite men's road race.

Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates are both confident they've overcome their Tour de France injuries to lay it on the line in the men's Olympic road race.

Tour de France stars, last-chance veterans and rising phenoms headline the three teams to watch in Tokyo on Saturday.

Hungarian road race, time trial, mountain bike, and cyclocross champion Kata Blanka Vas is a future cycling star and the 19-year-old was snapped by SD Worx earlier this year.

Dan Craven diagnosed with COVID-19 after struggling for months to secure a vaccine, and finally got call two hours after virus positive puts frustrating end to Olympic dream.

Team director sees advantages in Geraint Thomas, Simon Yates and Tao Geoghegan Hart's crash-riddled Tour as GB aims at the Olympic podium.

Haley Batten's meteoric rise has been a decade in the making.

We sit down with Kate Courtney to talk Olympics, and the people and processes that got her there.

Japanese champion Eri Yonamine has been racing for a decade, six of those as a professional, but the 2021 Olympics will be her first international race on home soil.

The Dutch women made history when they won back-to-back Olympic road race titles in London and Rio. Can they do it again with a third straight victory? There are few who would bet against it.

‘There was a level of maturity in understanding how to actually go, that it’s not just a dream.’

Here's your guide for this weekend's Olympic road races.

Bike racing at the Olympics starts with the July 23 men's road race and continues through track events on August 8. Here is the full TV schedule.

The 46-year old will compete in the individual time trial in Tokyo.

Chloé Dygert is on track for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, says U.S. coach Gary Sutton. Dygert heads into the U.S. time trial championships next week.

Winder, Leah Thomas, Coryn Rivera, and Chloe Dygert will race on the road in Tokyo.

Physicians predict a full recovery from a non-displaced fracture of the ulna for the cross-country pro.

Howes hopes to finally make the U.S. Olympic team after several close calls.

After less than three years of racing on the track, Lily Williams sets her sights on the USA's Olympic team pursuit squad.

Despite a climber-friendly Olympics course in Tokyo, Sepp Kuss took himself out of consideration to focus on the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.

A win at the race is an automatic qualifier for the Tokyo games.

After the 22-year old finished third at the Albstadt World Cup, Tokyo doesn't seem so far away.

Ruth Winder heads into the U.S. Olympic selection process with a healthy perspective on how Tokyo 2021 fits into her professional goals.

Neben, a two-time world champion in the individual time trial, believes she still has what it takes to win.

How I went from a late start in the sport to making the USA Cycling Olympic long team.

Reports of a pre-Games quarantine would complicate a Tour de France or Giro Rosa start for Olympic-bound cyclists.

Grewal, Carpenter-Phinney, Hegg, and Gorksi scored gold, with 10 others getting on the podium.

Marquardt was diagnosed with diabetes at age 16 and was told she would never compete at a high level again.

Top two countries get to send a trio of XC athletes to Japan next summer. But with nearly 9 months remaining in the Olympics chase, Team USA can’t afford to be complacent

The final two medal rounds on the Rio velodrome offered ample drama Tuesday as Germany's Kristina Vogel delivered a saddle-breaking bike throw.

Great Britain's Laura Trott repeats as gold medalist in the women's track omnium, and American Sarah Hammer earns another silver in Rio.

Lennard Zinn answers questions about the U.S. pursuit team's baggy gloves, the fastest way over a bump in the road, and Bookwalter's TT crash.

Britain's dominant track cycling team remained on course to match its previous seven-title Olympic hauls on the final day of the Rio Games.

Italian Elia Viviani won the Olympics men's track omnium Monday despite a crash in the points race caused by sprint rival Mark Cavendish.

A handful of the top pro road cyclists are also vying for Olympics medals. Elia Viviani, Fernando Gaviria, and Mark Cavendish are racing the omnium.

This week, Lennard Zinn takes a closer look at American Mara Abbott's near-miss in the women's Olympic road race.

The American track program was revamped for the Rio Games, with the team pursuit squad winning the 2015 world title.

The Australian women's team pursuit squad crashes while training Monday at the Rio Olympics, casting doubt on their odds for a medal.