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Winter Olympic Sports

Canada won’t host luge world championships

Canada will not host the luge world championships next year, with officials announcing Wednesday that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic left them no choice but to consider another site. The biggest impediment was the 14-day quarantine that would be required of any foreign athlete entering ...

World Cup ski tour to skip US, Canada

The road to another World Cup overall title won’t include any sort of home-snow advantage for Mikaela Shiffrin. The governing body for ski racing announced Thursday that it will skip the traditional North American loop due to safety concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On the ...

Senate passes bill to overhaul USOPC

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s board of directors and would more than double the federation’s funding for the U.S. Center for SafeSport passed the Senate unanimously Tuesday. The bill was written in ...

Lake Placid Olympic venues to open slowly

LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority is gradually opening the doors to Lake Placid’s Olympic venues. The Lake Placid Olympic Museum and the ORDA Store, both located within the Olympic Center on Main Street, reopened on July 18. A new zipline at the Olympic ...

5 new faces on ORDA board

LAKE PLACID — Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed five new members to the state Olympic Regional Development Authority’s Board of Directors on Thursday. The governor’s new appointments include a new chairperson, Kelly Cummings. She takes over for Arthur Lussi of Lake Placid, who served as ...

Little appointed to ORDA board

LAKE PLACID — On Thursday the state Senate confirmed Sen. Betty Little as one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s five nominees to sit on the state Olympic Regional Development Agency board. Little, R-Queensbury, is retiring from the state Senate at the end of this year, but she starts this ...