The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Olympic gold medallist, Laura Trott are to launch the official RideLondon route for 2013.
Plans for the two day cycling festival were announced just after the Olympics last July.
It will feature a series of rides for anyone from young amateurs to the world's elite cyclists.
Now she was one of the star's of the Olympics, winning double Gold in cycling, and today Laura Trott was back at the Essex hospital where she was born to open a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit..
20 year old Laura was a month premature when her Mum gave birth at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Harlow and was seriously ill but staff at the Unit ensured she made a full recovery as Russell Hookey explains
Double gold-winning Olympian Laura Trott is due to open a new neonatal unit in the hospital which saved her life more than 20 years ago.
This morning the Essex track cyclist will return to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.
Double gold medal winner Laura Trott said today she still feels like "a 10-year-old kid" despite her Olympic success.
The 20-year-old, from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, said taking both the titles was "surreal" and that she had been unsure whether her win at the Track Cycling World Championship in Melbourne earlier this year was just by chance.
She said: "It still feels totally surreal for me, I still can't believe this is happening, I'm just a 10-year-old kid.
"I didn't know whether I just fluked it in Melbourne and whether I could beat them all again. So it's just amazing, especially to do it in front of a home crowd."
Cyclist Laura Trott's family have spoken about how they find it hard to believe she has become a double Olympic gold medalist
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"I couldn't have done it without them.
"The amount of money they had to put in when I was younger, taking me here, there and everywhere, and my dad gave up his cricket."
– Laura Trott, Team GB cyclist"I came into today not feeling as good as yesterday, and I was losing my head a bit between events because they weren't going the way I wanted them to.
"To finish off with that 500m, I can't believe it. I'm really happy.
"It's all thanks to the coaches really, and my family and friends are here too, and the support of the crowd."
Great Britain's Laura Trott has won her second gold of the London 2012 Olympic Games with victory in the women's omnium.
The Hertfordshire cyclist won team pursuit gold on Saturday but has now won an individual title to add to her Olympic success.
She joins an elite club of British females to have won double gold at a single Games, including Dame Kelly Holmes and swimmer Rebecca Adlington.
Sarah Hammer of the United States won silver in the omnium, and Australia’s Annette Edmondson won bronze.
Laura Trott has won the women's cycling omnium, securing her second Gold medal for team GB at London 2012.
Great Britain's Laura Trott was in silver medal position with one event remaining in the women's omnium, as Team GB hoped to continue their Olympic gold rush at the velodrome.
The 20-year-old team pursuit champion was in second place, one point behind Sarah Hammer of the United States, entering the 10-kilometre scratch race, with the duo's nearest rivals seven points behind.
