Defending champions BMC Racing will roll out as favourites for the 38.8km men’s team time trial having dominated in the discipline throughout the season.

Spearheaded by Rohan Dennis, and with the fit-again Taylor Phinney also in their ranks, BMC Racing will face stiff competition from Etixx-QuickStep, Orica-GreenEDGE and Movistar among others.

It’s the American team which has the form, however, having won team time trials at the Criterium du Dauphine, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana this year.

Meanwhile, Orica-GreenEDGE were victorious at the Giro d’Italia and, having finished third in 2012 and second in the last two years, the Australian team will be keen to go one better this time out, with Svein Tuft, Michael Hepburn and Luke Durbridge among the TT specialists at their disposal.

Tony Martin will lead the Etixx-QuickStep charge, while Movistar boast the national champions of Spain, Italy and Great Britain in Jonathan Castroviejo, Adriano Malori and Alex Dowsett respectively.

Dowsett is not the only Brit who could be in action, either, with Ian Stannard and Luke Rowe on the Team Sky longlist and American team Astellas naming teenager Dan Gardner in their number.

Lizzie Armitstead, meanwhile, is on Boels-Dolmans longlist, looking to stop Velocio-SRAM’s three-year winning streak (all under their former guise as Specialized-lululemon).

Orica-AIS are no strangers to the women’s podium and will be among the favourites to improve on that this year.