It’s on right now, in Australia you can watch it on SBS. Here’s the starting list. Lot’s of great riders who would be familiar to Tour de France fans. The Spanish team looks very hard to beat with 2008 Tour winner Sastre, 2007 winner Contador plus Freire, Valverde and Sanchez. There are plenty of other strong looking teams though, such as the USA, Germany, Italy, Russia and Australia. Also notable are the Luxembourg trio of the two Schleck brothers plus Kim Kirchen.

UPDATE: As expected Spain took the gold with Sanchez coming first in what was a great finish with six riders in a sprint to the finish. There was some great riding from Andy Schleck, and particularly Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara who came out of nowhere to catch up to the main group, bringing a couple of other with him (including Australia’s Michael Rogers) to boost the lead group from three riders to six. Cancellara ended up with bronze behind Italy’s Rebellin who got silver.

Lots more cycling to come with the women’s road race tomorrow, and both women’s and men’s individual time trials on Wednesday.