O’Keeffe has spent the past six weeks at the World Cycling Centre, Switzerland as part of her pathway towards achieving her Olympic dream, however there was just no way she was about to miss the opportunity to perform on an international stage in front of her home crowd for the second time in just eight months. “For as long as I live I will never forget the crowd support when I won the Junior Elite Cruiser race at the Pietermaritzburg Worlds last year. There is nothing better than to perform on home soil and especially being South African, our crowds are the best in the world!” said O’Keeffe.
The schoolgirl from Thomas More College in Kloof last year has had to step up another gear as she enters the tough open Elite Women senior category.
“I am quite a bit smaller than most of the woman but we are working on that. Some serious squat sessions are in my near future!” she chuckles. “The plan is that by 2016 I will be at my peak so that is definitely my goal and focus at this stage but I’m very excited to be racing on home soil again,” she added.
The UCI BMX Supercross World Cup takes place at Alexander Park, Pietermaritzburg on 8 and 9 April 2011.
More information can be found at www.bmxworldcupsa.co.za
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