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Mystique Ro makes skeleton history

LAKE PLACID — Mystique Ro seems to know the Mount Van Hoevenberg sliding track better than anyone. The 30-year-old skeleton slider from Nokesville, Virginia dominated in the first three days of IBSF World Championships here last weekend. She brought home two world championships medals ...

Schomaker, Roberts win Youth B titles

PARK CITY, Utah — Talia Tonn and Ben Wingfield emerged as the winners of the 2025 Norton Youth A National Championships held at the Utah Olympic Park, the site of the 2002 and 2034 Olympic Winter Games. Youth A athletes are between the ages of 14 and 18. The Youth B Championships, for ...

Storm hoopers fall in state playoffs

CLIFTON PARK — Saranac Lake’s historic boys basketball season came to an end on Tuesday. Just 10 days after winning its first sectional title in 27 years, the Red Storm suffered a 70-42 loss to the Mechanicville Red Raiders in the NYSPHSAA Class B subregional round at Shenendehowa High ...

Three locals win girls hockey state title

Three local girls hockey players — Lake Placid’s Kendra Levitt and Harper Strack, along with Saranac Lake’s Emii Colby — who play for the played for the Massena River Queens 14U team were crowned state hockey champions on Sunday in Amherst. The River Queens beat the Clifton Park ...

Del Duca places fourth in two-man

LAKE PLACID — Frank Del Duca has some of U.S. bobsled great Steven Holcomb’s tools in his possession. Actual tools, as in ones that Holcomb used to tune up his sleds when he was the world’s best bobsledder. When Holcomb died, the tools made their way to Del Duca. And maybe there’s ...

Kaysha Love wins monobob world champ

LAKE PLACID — Barely two years ago, Kaysha Love was finishing somewhere around last place in what would best be described as minor bobsled races. She’s now the world monobob champion. Love’s meteoric rise to the top of her sport is now complete, after finishing a victory in the ...