The sport is being staged at the Lee Valley VeloPark, a 2012 Olympic venue which lies more than 130 miles away from the Commonwealth Games host city.

It means Dame Laura, the Tokyo 2020 madison champion, will return to the venue where she won the first of her five Olympic gold medals.

She will compete for hosts England in the 25 kilometres points race, the 4,000 metres team pursuit and 10km scratch race in London, at a venue which is just 20 miles from where the 30-year-old grew up.

At Glasgow 2014, Dame Laura won the points race title and any victory in Birmingham would be emotional after she revealed in April that she had suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy.

Other names to watch in the women's competition include Canada's Kelsey Mitchell, who won the Olympic sprint title at Tokyo 2020.

In the men's events, England will look to Matt Walls who won gold in the men's omnium at Tokyo 2020 after being inspired by London 2012.

He will enter the 40km points race and the 15km scratch race.

Australia's Matt Glaetzer is aiming for gold at a third consecutive Commonwealth Games after bagging the keirin title at Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018.

Glaetzer also won the time trial title four years ago on home soil and returned at Tokyo 2020 after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2019. 

Four days of track cycling are scheduled in London, beginning tomorrow and ending on Monday (August 1).

A campaign to build a velodrome in Birmingham for the Games ultimately proved unsuccessful, with critics saying the project would be too expensive.