 Chris Hoy has won four Olympic golds in his career
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Sir Chris Hoy will return to competitive cycling at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen.
It will be the Scot's first time back in the saddle since since winning three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.
Hoy is part of the British squad for the final round of the competition to be staged from 13 to 15 February.
Fellow Olympic champions Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Victoria Pendleton have also been selected with the team needing the points.
Britain lie a distant second in the overall team standings, 46 points behind leaders Germany, going into the last event in the series.
But British Cycling's track performance manager Heiko Salzwesdel is hopeful that the meeting will prepare the way for more success in the future.
"We are viewing the Copenhagen round as an important competition for us as it will be our final test before the World Championships in March," he said.
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"This will be the second time we enter a Track World Cup with a full squad - the first time being the opening round of the World Cup on our home ground in Manchester."
Britain swept into an early lead in that event, winning six out of nine of the men's race categories and all of the women's, but have found victories harder to come by in subsequent events in Australia, Columbia and China.
Since his Beijing triumphs Hoy has been awarded a knighthood and won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year.
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