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Sifiso Skizo Nhlapo wants to use his professional status to promote BMX racing in the country.

I am a professional BMX racer and 20Olympian.

A multiple national and continental BMX champ, he crashed out of the Olympic final after finishing first in his heat and second in his.

South African BMX racing champion Sifiso Nhlapo has secured his spot at the Olympic Games in London.

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The quietly-spoken year-old from Brackendowns in Gauteng has rocketed to global stardom and at home he is instantly recognised and showered.

Bringing back the cool factor – that also first got him interested in BMX – is what he wants to do.

Injuries, breaks and bruises are all part of the game. If you don’t crash then you aren’t learning.

Two weeks before the 2008 games no one knew that South Africa has a professional BMX racing champion, and since then the BMX Olympian has achieved superstar status.
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South African BMX racing champion Sifiso Nhlapo has secured his spot at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

But for Nhlapo his participation in the Olympics is about more than the adrenalin rush and winning medals, his dream is to get more kids onto bikes by developing the sport in South Africa.

When Nhlapo, better known as Skizo (a childhood name used to distinguish him from another boy at school with the same name) was