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Winter Olympic Sports

US collegiate, U18 hockey teams named

LAKE PLACID — USA Hockey announced the players selected for both the U.S. Collegiate Women’s Select Team and the Under-18 Women’s Select Team on Sunday. Both squads will face Canada in a three-game series on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday here. Those series games will take place at ...

Placid to host luge world champs in 2029

LAKE PLACID — This village will host the Luge World Championships in 2029, following an announcement made on Thursday during the 73rd Congress of the International Luge Federation in Tampere, Finland. “It’s official,” state Olympic Regional Development Authority Communications ...

US Biathlon team holds summer camp

LAKE PLACID — All 14 members of the U.S. Biathlon National Team were in town this week, taking part in their second training camp this summer. While there’s no snow on the ground, these camps are pretty important for the athletes, especially with the Olympics on the ...

Olympics slide away from Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID — This village’s chance of hosting a third Olympics seems out of the question ... at least for now. The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee received notification in mid-April that the Lake Placid-New York State’s Plan B bid to host the sliding events at the ...

Reliving the ‘Miracle’

LAKE PLACID — Steve Brescia of Medford Lakes, New Jersey, was in Utica for the IIHF Women’s World Championship in April 2024, when he ran into some fellow Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp attendees. Brescia hadn’t attended the camp in a few years, so some of those campers told him that ...

Ray Brook native caps of historic luge season

LAKE PLACID — Sophia Kirkby walked into Origin Coffee Co. on Tuesday, with her own mug. She made it herself and was glad to show it off. It was a complete contrast from nearly a year ago, when the Ray Brook native, who competes on the women’s national luge team, found out her father, ...