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Call it a hat trick, a trifecta, a three-peat, whatever you will, but we reckon Gina Lovell is set to make history this weekend. She won the Labour Day Classic on May first, the Ms. Body Figure on Sunday May 8th at the Princess and is considered the favorite to repeat in the female Cross Country this weekend.

Today we asked her how she parlays between cycling which requires strength and stamina on one weekend and then goes to a physique competition and shows form and grace the next, only to go back to cycling on the following weekend. The shy 24-year-old BDF cadet and St. John's Junior College student says its simple, she just sets impossibly high standards.

Gina Lovell, Athlete
"For my fitness competition it is just basically not muscles but just physique and for the competition now in cycling, well I can't have too much muscles and I can't have too much body weight as well so it comes along in that range so bears off.

My life is basically based on physical and sports so for the fitness now it comes easy because I am already fit and for the beauty part, well it they have a lot of ways to cover up bad spots. So as I said the physical part in my life and sports come easy.

Along with the Cross Country now, to prepare myself I work twice as hard as anybody else to ride this big event coming up. It is very important because people look up to me and as a Belizean going against the foreigners, there are so much and pressure is on me. My chances are probably the top 5. I am not sure what the other girls are capable of but I know for sure what I am capable of. As I said I will try my best and I will perform the best of ability."

Jules Vasquez,
Are you aware of your place in the society as a role model?

Gina Lovell,
"Yes I am aware of that. Every little I do, they look up to me and say they really want to be like me and how do I do it and what is my ambition and why do I do it. I say I do it because it is the way I was brought up. My dad is the biggest support and I love him very much and I grew in a family of nine and I have a little baby sister and so all of them give me a little motivation and with them, I give other good motivation as well and support."

Gina is the sister of Gabriel Lovell, also a cyclist who is studying medicine in Cuba. She is the daughter of retired Colonel George Lovell, who is an active cyclist and the sister of accomplished young cyclists George Jr. and Gregory Lovell.