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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 ...

US wins gold in mixed skeleton race at world championships

LAKE PLACID (AP) — The U.S. won the mixed skeleton world championship for the first time Saturday night, after not even medaling in the first four editions of the event. The team of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won at Mount Van Hoevenberg with a combined time of 1 minute, 54.53 ...

Germany sweeps the 2-man world podium

LAKE PLACID — The greatest ever just keeps getting better. Francesco Friedrich is a world champion again, winning the two-man race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sunday in a down-to-the-wire finish — holding off German teammate Johannes Lochner by the razor-slim margin of 0.03 seconds over ...

Britain’s Weston dominates in men’s skeleton world champs

LAKE PLACID — Matt Weston finished 15th in men’s skeleton at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, something he considered wildly disappointing. He’s been the best in the world ever since. The 28-year-old from Britain is the world champion once again — and just like his first world title ...