Wiggins calls for Hoy knighthood

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Wiggins won double Olympic gold in China, to take his career total to three, while Hoy now has four golds after picking up a hat-trick of wins in Beijing.

Wiggins told The Guardian: "It's got to be Sir Chris hasn't it? We've grown up together and the guy's a legend. We've got some exceptional men and women in the team but Chris did the business. It would be a knighthood for the whole of British cycling."

Reflecting on his own chances of receiving the honour, he added: "Sir Brad? Who knows? I'm an OBE already. If I'd got one gold in Beijing it would have been a CBE but I got two golds. I'd love it if they thought it might be worth a knighthood.

"I'm quite patriotic in that sense. I like that Queen and country thing. Having grown up in London, with Kilburn two miles down the road from the Palace, it means something.

"There is also the fact that knighthoods mean a lot to a specific sport when, like cycling, it's outside the mainstream."