Jocelyn Charles Bjorn Lovell was a Canadian and World cycling champion.
45 Facts About Jocelyn Lovell
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Jocelyn Lovell won dozens of Canadian national titles for track and road cycling in the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games.
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Jocelyn Lovell moved to Europe, for about six months, becoming the first Canadian to regularly compete for a European trade team.
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Jocelyn Lovell returned to Canada in July 1974 where he won five gold medals at the Canadian men's national cycling championships in track and long-distance cycling.
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Jocelyn Lovell continued to race as an amateur into the early 1980s.
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Jocelyn Lovell was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on 23 August 1985.
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Jocelyn Lovell was in the inaugural class of inductees for the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame with a ceremony held on 10 October 2015 at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre in Milton, Ontario.
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Jocelyn Charles Bjorn Lovell was born in Norwich, England, on 19 July 1950.
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Jocelyn Lovell's parents were Margit and Anthony Lovell.
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Jocelyn Lovell was a free-spirit and that caused him to have a combative relationship with some of the team's coaches and administrators.
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Jocelyn Lovell had a tense relationship with some of his teammates.
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Jocelyn Lovell raided the pantry and took a box of cookies.
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Jocelyn Lovell shared the cookies with his teammates, but one of them objected to his behaviour.
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Not only did it deny Jocelyn Lovell from defending his Commonwealth titles, but Team Canada would not win a medal in men's cycling at those games.
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The suspension made Jocelyn Lovell actually consider becoming a professional racer in Europe.
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Jocelyn Lovell did travel to Amsterdam in late January 1974 and trained as an amateur, preparing to join a professional club.
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Jocelyn Lovell became the first Canadian ever to ride regularly for an amateur European trade team.
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Jocelyn Lovell won some races in Europe, but got turned off of becoming a professional because of the small amount of money involved and the drug-doping that the pros were doing.
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Jocelyn Lovell felt he had something to prove to CCA officials after his six-month suspension.
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Jocelyn Lovell was the class of the 1000-metre sprint preliminaries, winning his heat easily.
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The wins in the 1000-metre time trial and the individual pursuit qualified Jocelyn Lovell to be on Team Canada in those events for the UCI world championships in Montreal the next month.
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Jocelyn Lovell completed the 14 laps in five hours, six minutes, 18.5 seconds.
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Jocelyn Lovell was a length ahead of Calgary's Hank Konig who placed second, while third went to Gilles Durand of Quebec.
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Jocelyn Lovell held back from the initial leaders, then, with a pack, made a move to the front on the ninth lap.
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That's when Jocelyn Lovell made his move and sprinted past him near the finish line to win.
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Jocelyn Lovell was on tap after the championship's official opening ceremonies that evening in the 1,000-metre time trial event.
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Jocelyn Lovell was Canada's best hope for a medal but it was not to be, and the host country did not win any medals at the championships.
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Jocelyn Lovell was amazed at Klaus-Jurgen Grunke's winning time of 1:05.927, which was almost three-full seconds faster than Lovell's 1:08:852 time.
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The third race ended in a tie as Jocelyn Lovell made a tactical mistake.
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Jocelyn Lovell posted a new Commonwealth record time of 1:06.00 and won the gold medal in the event.
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Jocelyn Lovell followed up his gold performance by teaming up with Singleton in the Tandem Sprint.
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Later that day, Jocelyn Lovell again competed in the games final track event, the 10-mile scratch race.
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Jocelyn Lovell stayed in the pack, behind the leaders until the final three laps.
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Jocelyn Lovell began his move to catch the leaders by breaking away from the pack and catching up to the leaders.
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Jocelyn Lovell took the lead in the final two laps and won his third gold medal of the games.
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Just over a week after the Commonwealth Games, on 17 August, Jocelyn Lovell was in Munich, West Germany, to participate in the 1978 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
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Jocelyn Lovell raced in the 1000-metre time trial event, posting a time of 1:06.28.
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Thoms took home the gold medal and Jocelyn Lovell got his first silver medal at a world championship.
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Jocelyn Lovell used these bicycles through much of his middle and later career.
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Once Jocelyn Lovell started focusing more on road racing in the early 1980s, as a sign of gratitude, he gave the bicycle back to Marinoni.
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At this reunion, Jocelyn Lovell gave Marinoni his five gold medals from the 1974 Canadian Cycling Championships.
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Jocelyn Lovell started and presided over the Jocelyn Lovell Foundation to help fund research into repairing spinal-cords.
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Jocelyn Lovell was married to speed skater and competitive cyclist Sylvia Burka in 1981.
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Jocelyn Lovell lived in Mississauga, Ontario with his second wife, Neil.
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Jocelyn Lovell died in Toronto on Friday, 3 June 2016.