PARALYMPICS legend Darren Kenny is determined to hit top form this summer – and he hopes that will be enough to enhance his remarkable Games record.

The Verwood-based cyclist is widely regarded as the most successful member of the GB para-cycling team and his glittering career was recognised with an OBE in 2009.

Kenny already has eight Paralympic medals, including six golds from Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, to his name going into London 2012.

He is aiming to gain selection for the individual pursuit and team sprint events where he would bid to defend two of the titles he won four years ago.

Despite gold being his ultimate ambition in the capital, Kenny insists his focus is on arriving at the Games in peak condition rather than thinking about any potential outcome.

The 42-year-old told the Daily Echo: “I don’t focus on the result, I focus on being the ultimate I can be and going there and being able to hit that particular day with the best form I can possibly have. That is a pathway to get to gold.

“If you think of it the other way round and think ‘I need to do this to achieve gold’ then you don’t really know what anyone else is capable of. You can make a good guess but you don’t know.

“So, you go there to be the best that you can possibly be – to take it as far as you can – and rely on the fact that is going to be enough to win gold.

“If it isn’t and if someone is better than you, they are better than you.

“There is nothing you can do about that but that is racing and that is why you do it.

“That is the enjoyable thing about it and it is also the downside when you get beaten. It is the thrill, if you like, of seeing if the best that you have got is good enough to beat the others.”

Kenny, who is a multiple world record holder, saw his able-bodied cycling career cut short at the age of 18 following an accident during the 1988 Junior Tour of Ireland.

He began racing again in 2000 and after winning the national disabled Circuit Championships and a silver medal at the National Track Championships in 2002, he was invited to join the GB para-cycling team.