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Local Olympians

U.S. Biathlon team competes in Switzerland

The U.S. Biathlon Team competed in Lenzerheide, Switzerland for a IBU World Cup this past weekend. The event featured a sprint, pursuit and the first mass start of the season. After two solid days of racing in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, Deedra Irwin of Pulaski, Wisconsin and the Army ...

Team USA leaves mark in first World Cup

LA PLAGNE, FRANCE — Team USA made its debut appearance in the 2023/2024 IBSF World Cup this week in the French Alps. Events kicked off this past Friday with skeleton races. On the women’s side, Mystique Ro placed second overall in her second World Cup race of her career. Her final time ...

USA Luge claims three sprint World Cup medals

LAKE PLACID — On an emotional final day of the FIL Luge World Cup in Lake Placid on Saturday, the U.S. women closed out their successful weekend with three medals in the sprint division races. Sprint races feature the top 15 athletes in each discipline based on their finish in the ...

Summer Britcher earns bronze in women’s singles

LAKE PLACID — The last time U.S. luge Olympian Summer Britcher competed in a FIL Luge World Cup in Lake Placid, she missed the women’s singles podium by 0.269 seconds. Since then Britcher, the all-time USA Luge women’s singles leader for World Cup victories, has recorded just four ...

Kaysha Love wins World Cup debut as pilot in monobob

LA PLAGNE, France (AP) — U.S. Olympic bobsledder Kaysha Love won her World Cup driving debut on Saturday, rallying in the second heat to prevail in a women’s monobob event. Love was fifth after the first heat, then had the fastest time in the second heat. She finished two runs in 2 ...

Golden day for Di Gregorio, Hollander

LAKE PLACID — The men’s doubles team of Zachary Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander celebrated their first World Cup victory Friday on their home track at Mount Van Hoevenberg during the FIL Luge World Cup. The last World Cup win by a U.S. doubles team, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin, ...