LAKE PLACID — Last June, David Snypes Jr. was attending a para skeleton camp at the indoor push house facility at Mount Van Hoevenberg when someone told him that he should try pushing the bobsled off to the side. “I said, ‘Why not?’” Snypes said. “I took one push, and it felt ...

LAKE PLACID — The IBSF World Cup season concluded on home ice this week with three days of competition this past weekend. In the two-man bobsled event on Friday, Team USA’s Frank Del Duca and Manteo Mitchell placed fifth in a two-run time of 1 minute, 50.96 seconds. Teammates Kris Horn ...

LAKE PLACID — Team USA’s Mystique Ro recorded her first-ever World Cup win in the women’s skeleton event on Thursday, the opening day of the IBSF World Cup, at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The win marked the first World Cup victory by an American skeleton athlete in eight years. Ro won ...

LAKE PLACID — The 2023/2024 IBSF women’s monobob World Cup came to an end at Mount Van Hoevenberg with a race for the sporting history books. In the eighth race of the season, Breeana Walker — with a two-heat combined time of 1:58.67 — claimed the first bobsled World Cup victory for ...

Deedra Irwin of Pulaski, Wisconsin rounded out the U.S. Biathlon season’s pursuit races with a 12th place finish on Saturday in the IBU World Cup in in Canmore, Alberta. Irwin was one of two athletes in the pool of 60 to shoot a perfect 20 for 20. She jumped 14 places from bib 26 and ...