Raymond Castilloux is former racing cyclist, who was born in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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At age 14, he went to spend the summer in Buffalo, NY while visiting his relatives. He eventually started school there and worked as steel-worker in the open-hearth.

At age 18, he was interested in ice

Ice

Ice is water frozen into the solid state. Usually ice is the phase known as ice Ih, which is the most abundant of the varying solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions...

 speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 and in the summer he took up cycling. He participated in different races, and became a professional cyclist. He became a US citizen and became the No.1 cyclist in the 1964 classification for the Olympics of 1964 in Central Park, NY. He then represented the USA at the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

 in Tokyo, Japan.
Ray also represented the U.S.A. in Mexico