She did not enjoy the clerical work and applied to the Department of War Transport when she saw an advert for women trainees to man canal barges.

[4] Kevelos was one of the women who during the Second World War were recruited from 1943 to 1945 to work narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal between Birmingham and London,[5] as part of the Boatwomen's training scheme.

After the Second World War Kevelos studied in Paris but returned to the Midlands[2] and later moved to King's Sutton in Northamptonshire.

[1] In 1950 Kevelos won her gold medal, riding a 500cc Norton Manx in the International Six-Day Trials in Wales.

[1] Olga Kevelos eventually gave up racing and for 26 years helped her younger brother Ray to run his pub, the Three Tuns, at King's Sutton, south Northamptonshire.