Keely Hodgkinson delighted to embrace mantle of Team GB’s poster girl
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Keely Hodgkinson is ready to embrace the pressure of being Team GB’s poster girl by winning Olympic gold. She also arrives in Paris with a prediction: that Britain has some of its “most talented and mentally driven” competitors.
The brilliant 22-year-old is a free spirit off the track and an extraordinary force on it. This week she has been walking around the British prep camp with Chanel sunglasses and a Louis Vuitton handbag – and while some staff have pointed out that it’s not official GB kit, she has shrugged it off. But when it comes to her performances, no one would question her ability.