Laura Trott will represent Great Britain next week for the first time in the Olympic Velodrome since winning gold in 2012 to compete in the Track World Cup.

Though Trott has raced at the Velodrome four times since 2012, each time she returns memories flood back of that special summer two years ago.

“The feelings you get are exactly the same,” Trott said.

“When I went in for the Olympics I tried to take in as much of the atmosphere as I could, so that I had all the nice memories.

“It was my first Olympics and, as much as it’s a cliche to say, my dreams came true. I don’t think I’m ever going to forget that.

“Now when I go in there it still feels the same, it still feels like a special place.”

Her victory in the team pursuit — alongside Joanna Rowsell and Dani King — was followed by an impromptu rendition of Hey Jude by a 6,000  strong crowd which included Paul McCartney.

Not a lot of 20-year-olds would know the words, but Trott did, courtesy of her dad, Adrian.

Trott, who is an ambassador for a track which is fewer than 20 miles from her family home in Cheshunt, added: “I’ve been to a few of his concerts, my dad’s an absolutely massive fan.

“I didn’t know he was there until everybody started singing. Then I looked up and he was on the big screen.”

Since then, Trott has gone on to win world, European and Commonwealth titles and shows few signs of slowing.

On her most recent appearance at the Lee Valley VeloPark — as the Olympic Velodrome is now known — Trott claimed six wins from six events in the omnium at an event which also featured superstar Marianne Vos.

The team pursuit has always been the primary focus for Trott, but she is determined to reclaim the world omnium title she last won in April 2012, after Sarah Hammer of the United States won in Minsk in 2013 and Cali in 2014.

Trott won the six-discipline event at October’s European Championships in Guadeloupe and was part of another dominant showing in the four-woman, four-kilometre team pursuit in the first Track World Cup of the season in Guadalajara, Mexico earlier this month.

Now the 23-year-old wants to take on the world’s leading riders in London before next February’s Track World Championships in Paris.

“I would hope that we would win the team pursuit again, because we won it at the last World Cup we were at,” Trott added.