Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova will seek to enter the 100 m sprint finals at the Olympic Games after grabbing the European title in the same field earlier this year.

The heats will start on Friday evening.

"My ambition is to show on the track what I have learned and how I have prepared. My goal is to make it to the 100 m final, which will be a great achievement in itself. There are many powerful athletes at these games from the US, the Caribbean and all kinds of pirates. My ambition is to defend my title as the best European sprinter," said Lalova.

Lalova, widely known as the fastest white woman, has come back to her glory days before she broke her leg in a freak accident and underwent seven operations.

She won the European Title in the 100 m sprint at the European Track and Field Championship in Helsinki at the beginning of July.

Lalova will be competing for the third time in Olympic Games and says she has learned and grown up a lot since her first Olympic steps.

"I was a child at my first Olympics. At the second, I was a girl who had just made a comeback after breaking her leg. The change I have gone through is enormous, especially emotionally. I have accumulated valuable experience, I know what the game is and know how to play it."

At this Olympics she has already won one title – the female athlete with the second most beautiful body to compete in London, at least according to Mexican newspaper De10.

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