BMX star Caroline Buchanan aims for Olympic Games gold after World Cup victory Caroline Buchanan with St Edmunds students James Lowry, Hugo Nobbs and Luca Morell to promote the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon. BMX star Caroline Buchanan has her sights set on Olympic Games retribution in 2016 and will try to make it back-to-back World Cup titles next year. Buchanan is in Canberra for a well-deserved off-season break after a hectic season culminating in an overall title in the BMX Supercross World Cup circuit. The 24-year-old dynamo emerged triumphant at the end of the five legs after winning round one in Manchester, round three in Berlin and finishing second in the final round in Chula Vista in the US. Caroline Buchanan has set her sights on Olympic Games retribution. The only blight on Buchanan's season was a ninth-placed finish at the world championships in the Netherlands in July, where she failed to defend the title she won in Auckland last year. Buchanan's performances in the World Cup has Australia well placed to secure two spots for women at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. "We're a year and a half out from the Rio Olympics, so now qualifying is at its peak and the lead-up to Rio is getting closer," Buchanan said. Australia's doing really well and this World Cup series win this year has been a big confidence boost. We've got to continue to stay in the top-four-ranked countries to qualify for Rio and for myself, a year from the Games is when my individual points start counting to which two girls will be selected. Buchanan was at St Edmund's College on Tuesday to promote next year's Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon, which is set to become the biggest under-16s triathlon series on the planet with more than 40,000 taking part worldwide. About 1500 Canberra juniors will swim, ride and run their way around a specially designed course at the AIS on February 15. Buchanan will enjoy her annual six-week break in Canberra before getting back on the track for the opening round of the national series on the Gold Coast in January. She will then head to Manchester to start the defence of her World Cup title in April before turning her focus to the world championships in Belgium in July. From then on, all roads lead to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Buchanan is keen to make amends for a disappointing performance at the London Olympic Games in 2012 where she missed the medals. "You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience," Buchanan said. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are. The goal is to clean up the mistakes I made in London and finish these two years of qualifying with a gold medal.