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Winter Olympic Sports

USABS announces World Cup teams

LAKE PLACID — USA Bobsled and Skeleton recently announced its upcoming World Cup bobsled team. The team includes four women’s pilots, and six push athlete while the men’s team included three pilots and 11 push athletes. After taking maternity leave last season, Kaillie Humphries ...

USA Luge Association elects president

LAKE PLACID — USA Luge announced on Tuesday that its Executive Board has elected Robert “Bullet Bob” Hughes as president. Hughes succeeds two-time Olympian Erin Warren, who has served in the role since 2018. The national governing body announced Hughes had been elected to a two-year ...

Gold again

LAKE PLACID — North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik has co-sponsored a bill that would have the U.S. Treasury create three Congressional Gold Medals recognizing the “Miracle on Ice” hockey team, with one of the proposed locations for these awards being the Lake Placid Olympic Center. The ...

Bobsled, skeleton athletes compete in push champs

LAKE PLACID — USA Bobsled and Skeleton hosted its annual Push Champs at the indoor ice push track at Mount Van Hoevenberg last week. The competition was held on Sept. 30, Oct. 1, Oct. 3 and Oct. 5. In the women’s pilot race, Kaysha Love took first with a three-heat time of 11.33 ...

USA Luge start championships Sept. 13

LAKE PLACID — The nation’s top luge athletes will gather at the USA Luge refrigerated indoor start training complex on Friday, Sept. 13. At stake will be the annual start championship title. The competitions will take place at the USA Luge headquarters at 57 Church St. in Lake Placid at 6 ...

Buying tickets for 2026 Winter Olympics will be tricky

PARIS — It’s kind of like buying tickets for an aging rock band and hoping that the 80-year-old singers and guitarists will be healthy enough to put on the show months down the line. Only this time, the show might be moved from Italy to New York. Tickets are about to go on sale for ...