Cycling-Venezuelan 8-year-old BMX cyclist dreams of Olympic Games

Venezuelan BMX champion Camila Iachini, 8, uses bicycle rollers during a training session on the terrace of the building where she lives with her family, in Los Teques, Venezuela April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez ViloriaShe has been riding since she was three, when she got a bike as a Christmas gift."Bikes are too much fun," said Iachini, the older of two sisters, in an interview in the living room of her home in Los Teques, about 30 kilometers southwest of Caracas.

"When she saw those women coming off the starting gate, she said 'Dad, I want to be an Olympian, I want to be an Olympian,'" said her father, Mario Iachini, a 34-year-old merchant." is a very competitive sport, a second in BMX requires a lot of discipline and perseverance."

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