It has also bid for the 2014 European swimming championships and the 2015 Track Cycling world championships.

BBC: Mo Farah

He was also one of the winning team pursuit cyclists at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and has been given his honour for services to cycling.

BBC: Chief constable, cyclist and welfare officer honoured

As well as being Olympic team pursuit champion, Clancy won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark last year, and he also picked up the men's omnium - the "pentathlon" of cycling - in the second round of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia.

BBC: Olympics stars in Aberystwyth cycling road race

The "Colne Cyclone" has twice been part of a world-record breaking team this year - in the team pursuit final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and on Thursday, as part of the Great Britain Olympic team, setting a new world-record time during the men's team pursuit track cycling qualifier.

BBC: Olympic gold medallist Steven Burke given civic honour

One of the legends of track cycling has said that Newtownards cyclist Martyn Irvine's gold medal at the World Track Championships should lead to more investment in Irish cycling.

BBC: Northern Ireland