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Winter Olympic Sports

40th anniversary parade canceled due to weather

LAKE PLACID — A Main Street parade expected to kick off the opening ceremony of the 40th Anniversary Celebration tomorrow has been canceled, the chair of the organizing committee said Wednesday. The parade was planned to be part of a torch run from Fitness Revolution on Saranac Avenue to ...

Team USA luge athletes return to Sochi

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — The international luge season’s main event has descended upon the Sochi region as the 2014 Olympic site is ready to host the 2020 International Luge Federation (FIL) World Championships Friday through Sunday. It’s the first time Russia has hosted the FIL’s ...

Olympian Tim Burke plays snow games with Tupper youth Nordic club

TUPPER LAKE — As a duck call carried over the rolling hills of the Tupper Lake Golf Club’s cross-country ski trails on Tuesday, four-time Olympic biathlon competitor Tim Burke and 20 kids slapped their ski poles into the snow and hopped. The duck call had been blown by ski instructor ...

Miracle on ink: Eruzione’s new book about ’80 Olympics is a best-seller

LAKE PLACID — There were 10 minutes left in the game when U.S. hockey team captain Mike Eruzione shot what would become the deciding goal in a game that made history. At first, he didn’t realize what he’d done. In his new book about the legendary 1980 Olympic match between the ...

U.S. Biathlon sets rosters for World Championships

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine— The U.S. Biathlon International Competition Committee has announced the rosters for the upcoming IBU Biathlon World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, Feb. 13-23, as well as the teams competing at the IBU Open European Championships in Otepaeae, Estonia, Feb. ...

11 days of events planned for Olympic 40th anniversary

LAKE PLACID — While celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 13 to 23, residents will be focused on the Olympic legacy of this village: past, present and future. Yet organizers on the 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee didn’t want just one or ...