Finucane and Pidcock headline Team GB cycling squad

World champion sprinter Emma Finucane and reigning Olympic upland motorcycle golden medallist Tom Pidcock header Team GB's first cycling squad for Paris 2024.

Pidcock will compete successful some nan upland motorcycle arena and nan roadworthy title successful Paris.

The 24-year-old became nan first Briton to triumph an Olympic badge of immoderate colour successful upland biking successful Tokyo 3 years agone - though he has nan mini matter of nan Tour de France to title earlier defending his title successful Paris.

Finucane, who is besides Britain's first female European sprint champion, will make her Olympic front successful nan French capital, wherever nan 21-year-old is expected to title 3 events connected nan track.

Team GB is sending its biggest cycling delegation successful its Olympic history to nan 2024 Games, though nan afloat squad has yet to beryllium confirmed.

Other Olympic medallists announced for nan Games see Ethan Hayter, who won madison metallic 3 years agone and will thrust connected some way and roadworthy successful Paris, while Jack Carlin, a two-time medallist successful Tokyo, leads nan men's sprinters astatine nan Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome.

Alongside Finucane successful nan women's sprint line-up are Katy Marchant, who won individual bronze astatine nan Rio 2016 Olympics, and debutant Sophie Capewell.

Earlier this year, nan trio won Track Nations Cup golden - nan first golden badge won by a British women's squad sprint squad since precocious 2012. It is nan first Games since London 2012 that GB has fielded a women's squad sprint and they will spell into nan Olympics apical of nan world rankings.

In nan men's endurance team, Dan Bigham joins Tokyo Olympians Ethan Vernon, Ollie Wood and Charlie Tanfield arsenic GB bid to regain nan men's squad pursuit title they mislaid 3 years ago, having antecedently dominated nan arena successful nan erstwhile 3 Games.

The women's roadworthy and way endurance riders, arsenic good arsenic nan BMX racing and freestyle parkland squads, will beryllium announced connected 4 July.

Last week, two-time Olympic golden medallist Katie Archibald said she would miss nan Paris Games done injury.

Archibald, who had been expected to title nan women's squad pursuit, omnium and madison, collapsed 2 bones successful her limb and tore ligaments disconnected nan bony aft tripping complete a measurement successful her garden.

Based connected nan wide number of medals, Great Britain is nan astir successful federation successful nan history of Olympic cycling.

They person won 100 medals crossed each disciplines, including 38 golds. At nan Tokyo Olympics 3 years ago, Team GB won 12 medals, six of which were gold.

Stephen Park, British Cycling's capacity director, said: "We’re blessed pinch an incredibly talented, passionate and quiet squad of riders, and we are now afloat focused connected supporting their last preparations truthful they tin beryllium astatine their very champion travel Paris."

Men's way endurance: Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon, Ollie Wood, Mark Stewart (travelling reserve)

Men's way sprint: Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull, Joe Truman (travelling reserve)

Men's road: Ethan Hayter (time trial), Tom Pidcock (road race), Josh Tarling (time proceedings and roadworthy race), Stevie Williams (road race), Fred Wright (road race)

Women's way sprint: Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant, Lowri Thomas (travelling reserve)

Women's upland bike: Ella Maclean-Howell, Evie Richards

Men's upland bike: Charlie Aldridge, Tom Pidcock