Shea given USOC's highest award

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Jack Shea, the late patriarch of the only family to produce three generations of American Olympic athletes, was honored Sunday with the U.S. Olympic Committee's highest award.

The Olympic Torch Award was given posthumously to Shea, a double gold-medalist in speedskating at the 1932 Winter Games. Shea was killed in an auto accident just before the start of the Salt Lake City Olympics.

His son, Jim Shea Sr., accepted the award from USOC president Sandy Baldwin.

Jim Shea Sr. was a skier in the 1964 Winter Games, and his son, Jim Jr., is a skeleton racer on this year's team.

 

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