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The Latest: Road cyclists start time trials on wet roads

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

8:50 a.m.

The first riders are off in the women's and men's Olympic time trials, greeted at the Pontal area of Rio de Janeiro by hard rain and cold winds buffeting off the coast.

The miserable conditions should make a brutal course even more grueling.

Ireland's Dan Martin, who competed over part of it in the road race, tweeted that he was "not sure I'd want to ride down that descent in the wet nevermind race.