IBSF President and IOC Board member Ivo Ferriani lights the Olympic Cauldron during Wednesday’s IBSF Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. The World Championships kicked off Thursday with skeleton events and will continue through Sunday. The event will then pick back up on March 15 and 16. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

IBSF President and IOC Board member Ivo Ferriani lights the Olympic Cauldron during Wednesday’s IBSF Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. The World Championships kicked off Thursday with skeleton events and will continue through Sunday. The event will then pick back up on March 15 and 16. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)