Raymond Castilloux (born November 23, 1934) is former

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, who was born in Canada. At age 14, he went to spend the summer in

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, 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

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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

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, New York. He then represented the United States in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics in

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. Ray also represented the United States in

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1934 births Living people Canadian male cyclists American male cyclists Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for the United States Sportspeople from Quebec {{US-cycling-bio-stub