"If you want Olympic gold - if no one else can help - and if you can find him- maybe you can hire... Sir Brad."

Sir Bradley Wiggins has revealed that he hopes to set up his own team aimed at winning team pursuit gold at Rio 2016 as part of a new contract with Team Sky.

"I have come off the back of winning the world time trial championship six weeks ago. That was sort of the final nail in the road coffin as it were," he said in the Daily Telegraph.

"Next year I would love to have my own team which we are in process of setting up. It will basically will be the guys I am going to try to win that gold medal with.

"Long term, post-Rio, obviously the word legacy gets thrown around a lot in the wake of the Olympics but I'd love to find the next Bradley Wiggins or Chris Hoy."