Born in
Rimouski,
Quebec, he won three gold medals in cross-country skiing in the 1979
Canada Winter Games. First competing as a cyclist at the
1976 Summer Olympics in
Montreal, Harvey finished 24th in the
individual road race. He was also a silver medallist in the Road Race at the
1978 Commonwealth Games in
Edmonton. Competing in cross-country skiing from 1982 to 1988, Harvey's best finish at the
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 16th in the 15 km event at
Oslo in 1982. He would earn a total of three victories in his career, including a victory in the 50 km event at the
Holmenkollen ski festival in 1988. As of 2010, he is the only Canadian to win any event at that prestigious competition. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Harvey's job in the
cycling road race was to act as
wind breaker for his teammate
Steve Bauer, who went on to win Olympic silver. At the
1988 Winter Olympics in
Calgary, he took the
Athlete's Oath and finished 14th in the
30 km event. He won the prestigious 54 km Birkebeinerrennet ski marathon in Norway in 1987, the first non-Scandinavian to do so. == Membership ==