- Art Devlin (ski jumper)
Arthur "Art" Donovan Devlin (
September 7 ,1922 –April 22 ,2004 ) was an Americanski jumper who competed during the 1950s. A native ofLake Placid, New York , he finished fifth in the individual large hill at the1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships which were held in Lake Placid. Devlin also made five Olympics teams, competing in the 1952 and1956 Winter Olympics , where he finished 15th and 21st in the individual large hills, respectively.Prior to the 1950s, Devlin also flew fifty combat missions over
Europe duringWorld War II as aB-24 pilot, earning threePurple Heart s and numerous other military honors.While in
ski jumping , Devlin went into thehotel business, opening up Art Devlin's Olympic Motor Inn in 1953, a hotel he would run until he retired and passed it onto his son, Art, Jr., in 1992. He also was acolor commentator forABC Sports during the 1964 and1968 Winter Olympics , becoming lifelong friends with sportscasterChris Schenkel .Devlin,
Jack Shea , and Vern Lamb were also important in bringing the1980 Winter Olympics back to Lake Placid as well, including lobbying acrossEurope to present their case to theInternational Olympic Committee .Devlin married and had three children. His first wife died in 1989 and he would remarry several years later. He died of
brain cancer in 2004.External links
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* [http://archive.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2004/04_2004/042420042.htm "(Plattsburgh, NY) Press-Republican" April 24, 2004 article on Devlin's passing.] - Accessed March 25, 2007.
*findagrave|8673336 Retrieved on2008-07-24 References
*"Art Devlin's Olympic Motor Inn". (1999). In "AAA New York Tour Book: Good through 4/2000". Heathrow, FL: AAA Publishing. p. 280.
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