Championships, Gold Medal, 1971 Pan American Games, Jocelyn Charles Bjorn Lovell (19 July 1950 – 3 June 2016) was a Canadian and World cycling champion.

[2] In 1973 he was suspended from Team Canada during “the cookie incident.” His suspension caused him to miss the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand.

[14] The officials used this incident, and a scuffle with a teammate – that happened around this time – to force him to go back to Canada before the rest of the team.

[15] The coaching staff then started disciplinary proceedings against him through the sport's oversight body, the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA), partially to retaliate against him for his insubordination.

[16] Not only did it deny Lovell from defending his Commonwealth titles, but Team Canada would not win a medal in men's cycling at those games.

[20] He won some races in Europe,[12] 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.

[17] When the ban was up, he returned to Canada in July, and maintained his amateur status to compete at the 1974 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in August, held in Montreal.

[21] Lovell came back from Europe to compete at the Canadian senior cycling championships at Vancouver's China Creek Velodrome during the final weekend of July.

[23] In attendance that weekend were CCA's executive director Ken Smith and newly hired national men's team head coach, Don Sutherland.

[26] In the men's 4000-metre pursuit, Lovell posted a best time of 5:11.02, while Roy Fondse of Winnipeg placed second and Brian Keast of Vancouver was third.

[27] The wins in the 1000-metre time trial and the individual pursuit qualified Lovell to be on Team Canada in those events for the UCI world championships in Montreal the next month.

[30] Lovell held back from the initial leaders, then, with a pack, made a move to the front on the ninth lap.

[31] This victory gave Lovell his fifth gold medal, and a sweep of all the individual events, at the 1974 Canadian Senior Cycling championships.

[35] At 1:10.11, he finished 13th, well back of the Soviet Union's Eduard Rapp's time of 1:07.61, that gave the Russian cyclist the first gold medal of the championships.

The team then consisted of Lovell, Hugh Walton of Toronto, Adrian Proser of Hamilton and Ron Hayman of Vancouver.

[40] The following month, he and team Ontario won more medals at the 1976 Canadian Track Cycling Championships held at Montreal's Olympic Velodrome.

In the tie-breaker forth race, Lovell won, but the young challenger Singleton proved much with his silver medal finish.

[42] The Ontario pursuit team, anchored by both Lovell and Singleton, took the gold medal for the second year in a row.

Other veteran racers David Weller from Jamaica, and Trevor Gadd from England were given the remaining late seeds.

[44] There were two surprise breakout performances at this event from newer racers: Gordon Singleton from Canada and Kenrick Tucker from Australia.

The English team crashed on the track during the finals and could not continue, giving the Canadians the gold by default.

[46] Later that day, Lovell again competed in the games final track event, the 10-mile (15 km) scratch race.

[46] Just over a week after the Commonwealth Games, on 17 August, Lovell was in Munich, West Germany, to participate in the 1978 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

[50] Marinoni used this bike, at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre velodrome, to attempt breaking the one-hour record for his age group in 2017.

At the time, it was one of the few medical research schools in Canada working on regenerating nerve fibres and repairing spinal-cords.