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Winter Olympic Sports

Sliding track off to fast start

LAKE PLACID — While big machines and trucks moved earth, stone and building material below, working on the project that’s totally transforming the Olympic Sports Complex, members of the United States luge team were higher up on Mount Van Hoevenberg Tuesday morning, trying out the ice for ...

Young skiers ready for snow after meeting Olympians

LAKE PLACID — This village has more than its share of Olympians, but a trio with seven Olympic Games under their belts has local Nordic skiers pumped to see some snow. Gold medalist Jessie Diggins, two-time Olympian Sophie Caldwell and three-time Olympian Simi Hamilton visited High ...

Van Ho track set to open

LAKE PLACID — With rising temperatures creating some thin ice, the opening of the fall luge season in Lake Placid has been delayed until Tuesday morning. The track at the Olympic Sports Complex, site of the second Viessmann World Cup race of the season from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, will try again ...

Diggins, Caldwell, Hamilton to have meet and greet at High Peaks Cyclery

LAKE PLACID — Olympic Nordic skiers Jessie Diggins, Sophie Caldwell and Simi Hamilton, all members of the US national ski team, will be at High Peaks Cyclery in Lake Placid on Sunday for a meet and greet with the public. The event begins at 3 p.m. and will be followed by a question ...

Phaneuf talks climate change at APA

RAY BROOK – Olympic biathlete Maddie Phaneuf, who lives in Lake Placid, spoke to the state Adirondack Park Agency board on Friday with a message about climate change. Phaneuf was a member of the 2018 Winter Olympic biathlon team, but developed strep throat and the flu and could not ...

USA Luge collects 2 golds, 1 silver

LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Five days into its first preseason camp of the fall, USA Luge athletes donned their race faces on Saturday, and dominated the annual Lillehammer Cup exhibition event on the 1994 Olympic course. The doubles team of 2018 Olympic silver medalist Chris Mazdzer, of ...