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About Jimmy Shea: Jim Shea, Jr., an American skeleton sledding champion, was born on June 10, 1968, winner of a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Jim Shea was a third-age Olympian. His grandfather, Jack, a local of Lake Placid, New York, read the Athletes' Oath at the 1932 Lake Placid Games and after that won two gold medals in speed skating (500m and 1,500m). Jim's father, James, partook in cross country skiing and in Nordic joined at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck. In spite of his family, Jim Shea Jr had taken a difficult way towards his own Olympic debut. In the wake of choosing to take up the skeleton, he had traveled around Europe on the most impenetrable of spending plans, working on tracks to gain a bit of money and furthermore

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