AN East Cornwall judo player has been selected as reserve in the under-66kg category for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics Games.

Lewis Keeble, who grew up in St Germans and attended St Germans Community School and Torpoint Community College, has been impressing on the world stage, winning a bronze medal at the last month's Pan-American Judo Confederation (PJC) World Cup Judo Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

But the 21-year-old admits that the call-up came as a surprise to him.

'If I was asked two years ago "where do you see yourself in the Olympic team closer to the games?"

I would have said that being number three or four leading up to the event would have been realistic,' he said.

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