LAKE PLACID — As this village awaits word on whether it’ll be picked as the Olympic sliding site for the 2026 Games, Ray Brook native Sophia Kirkby spent time in Italy checking out the nearly completed rebuild of the historic Eugenio Monti track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Kirkby, ...

With the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics less than a year away, organizing committee CEO Andrea Varnier said he has “absolutely no doubt” that sliding sports will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, after testing went well last week. There was concern that the venue for bobsled, luge and ...

Next year’s Olympic sliding races will be in Italy after all, international luge officials predicted Saturday in another ringing endorsement of the newly rebuilt track in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The International Luge Federation followed its bobsled and skeleton counterpart in declaring the ...

LAKE PLACID — Frank Del Duca has some of U.S. bobsled great Steven Holcomb’s tools in his possession. Actual tools, as in ones that Holcomb used to tune up his sleds when he was the world’s best bobsledder. When Holcomb died, the tools made their way to Del Duca. And maybe there’s ...

LAKE PLACID — For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two years ago and now, finally, she has gold. Bos is the new world champion of her sport, turning in ...

LAKE PLACID (AP) — The U.S. won the mixed skeleton world championship for the first time Saturday night, after not even medaling in the first four editions of the event. The team of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won at Mount Van Hoevenberg with a combined time of 1 minute, 54.53 ...