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World Championships return to Lake Placid

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LAKE PLACID — The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Championship have officially kicked off and will begin racing today. Athletes from a total of 38 nations — the highest number of nations represented in IBSF World Championship history — will compete this weekend, ...

Ukraine athletes are sliding this weekend

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LAKE PLACID — The final race of the headfirst-sliding sport known as skeleton awaits Ukrainian athletes Vladyslav Heraskevych and Yaroslav Lavreniuk. After that, they’re going home. They don’t know what awaits when they get there. Heraskevych and Lavreniuk are the only athletes from ...

USA Luge wraps up Junior World Cup

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SIGULDA, Latvia — USA Luge’s junior men’s doubles team of Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa won the final two Junior World Cup events held outside of Riga. In the team event, the U.S. team, which featured Aidan Mueller, Talia Tonn and Mueller/Haugsjaa, won the bronze. The Junior ...

MC Motors wins pool league title

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SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Pool League concluded last week with MC Motors winning the best-of-five series championship 3-0 over Romanos. MC Motors won the first match 11-8, the second 11-5 and the third in a nail biting finish 11-10 to earn their second consecutive league ...

Third time’s the charm

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PLATTSBURGH — As the Clinton Community College gym court filled with a sea of red and white jerseys, Cedar Crist ran toward the bench, and jumped at his head coach and father Daryl. Relief had finally set in as Saranac Lake’s 27-year boys basketball title drought was finally ...

SLP boys fall to Eagles in semifinals

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PLATTSBURGH — Sometimes in the game of hockey, the puck just doesn’t bounce your way. For the Saranac Lake Placid boys hockey team, they found that out the hard way. The SLP boys suffered a 5-2 loss to the Beekmantown Eagles on Thursday at the SUNY Plattsburgh Fieldhouse, ending ...