John Kelly

U.S. Olympic Committee President John B. Kelly Jr. died of a heart attack while jogging, the medical examiner said Monday. Kelly, 57, a former city councilman, businessman and athlete, collapsed on a downtown street Saturday. Dr. Marvin Aronson also said that Eugene Conlan, who was married briefly to Kelly's sister, Margaret, also died of a heart attack a few hours later while walking several blocks from where Kelly collapsed. Aronson said there was no connection between the two deaths.

The particular irony in the death while jogging of U.S. Olympic Committee President John B. (Jack) Kelly Jr. is that in many respects he had come to epitomize the growing interest in physical fitness among older persons. At 57, Kelly, who was elected USOC president for the 1985-88 quadrennial just three weekends ago, exercised every day, either jogging or rowing. He had been rowing since youth and like his father, John B. Kelly Sr.

John B. Kelly Jr., U.S. Olympic Committee president, Olympic rowing medalist and brother of the late Princess Grace of Monaco, died Saturday while jogging, police said. He was 57. Police Lt. James Cahill said Kelly's body was found at a Center City intersection. Identification was delayed because Kelly had nothing with him. Bob Waters, an investigator at the Medical Examiner's Office, said no cause of death would be released pending completion of toxicology tests.