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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
PARIS — The stream of threats, recriminations and anti-doping innuendo flowed freely again Thursday when tensions over a U.S. law designed to combat drugs in sports escalated on the eve of the Paris Olympics. It’s a fight that’s been simmering for a decade, sparked by Russia’s ...
LAKE PLACID — While four-time Olympic U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn leapt from her chair following the International Olympic Committee’s announcement that Salt Lake City, Utah was named the host for the 2034 Olympic Winter Games, in Lake Placid, local luge Olympian Ashley Farquharson waited ...