A New Coach, a New Home and a Great Season: 2000
The 2000 season turned out to be the start of one of Lori-Ann’s
best seasons to date. However, as fate would have it, in late
October 1999 she plunged 20 feet off a cliff in an unfortunate
mountain biking accident. Luckily nothing was broken or torn,
but it took almost 2 months to recover before she could focus
on training. During this recovery period she built a camaradarie
with Steen Madsen who would later become her coach and training partner.
As well, Lori-Ann was adopted by the members of Edmonton’s Juventus Cycling Club.

Lori-Ann would go on to win a Bronze medal at World Cup #2 in Cali, Colombia, and then
win the Olympic qualifying race at the Canadian National Track Cycling Championships in the Standing 500Metre event. This race was contested in Bromont, Québec and with her win it secured her participation at the Olympic Games held in Sydney, Australia.

One week prior to participating in the Standing 500Metres she caught the dreaded Aussie flu which knocked her off of her feet for 7 days. Two days before her scheduled event on Day 1 of the Games she was able to resume her final preparation as best as she could. The experience at the Olympics was extremely short as her event took only 35.846 sec. (50.215kmph from a dead start!) and placed her 13th - a personal best! She said, “the experience is one that I will never forget. It was unbelievable! Fantastic! Incredible!” At the World Track Cycling Championships six weeks later, Lori-Ann would take 5th in the Standing 500Metres in a time of 35.711sec. (50.405kmph), bettering her time by over 1/10th of a second – faster than at the Olympics.

Moving Right Along: 2001
The 2001 season was another good year that started off with World Cup Bronze medals in Poland and Mexico City, and then double Gold medals at the last World Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia. From Ipoh she flew 16 hours to Brisbane, Australia to be part of a composite team at Ted Turner’s last “by-invitation-only” Goodwill Games. Here she finished with a Silver medal in the Match Sprints and set a new Australian Outdoor Record in her qualifying Flying 200 Metres.

At the Alpenrose Challenge in Portland, Oregon Lori-Ann took 1st place in the Standing 500 Metres and set a track record that had not been beat since 1995. Lori-Ann added 3 more titles at the Canadian National Championships, making it now a total of five.

At her final race of the season at the World Track Cycling Championships in Antwerp, Belgium she took 3rd in the Match Sprints, and was 4/1,000ths of a second off of the Canadian Record in the Standing 500Metres. In the Standing 500Metres she took 2nd place in a time of 35.151sec. (51.208kmph) bettering her time from the previous year by over 6/10ths of a second!