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 Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.

USA Luge returned to Lake Placid on Friday from Lillehammer, Norway, and is awaiting the resumption of fall sliding on its home track. The American team will spend a week here, before heading to Whistler, British Columbia, and then coming back to Lake Placid to prepare for the Norton National Championships, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2.

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¯ Wedding bells are in the future for 2018 Olympic silver medalist Chris Mazdzer, of Saranac Lake, and fiancée Mara Marian. After the camp in Lillehammer, Mazdzer journeyed home to Salt Lake City where he celebrated Mara’s birthday and proposed. She proudly displayed the ring on social media, and told USA Luge Monday, “I’m over the moon.” At that precise moment, Mazdzer asked his bride-to-be for a verbal confirmation “because she couldn’t take her hands away for her mouth.”

¯ Women’s World Cup luge just got a bit more interesting with the announcement that Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger, approaching 50 World Cup race victories, is expecting her first child in April and will not compete this season. “My husband and I are very pleased to announce, that we are able to fulfill our wish of a complete family,” Geisenberger was quoted on the FIL website. Geisenberger has won four Olympic gold medals and seven consecutive overall World Cup titles.

Teammate Dajana Eitberger is also expecting and will miss the season, while Tatjana Huefner, a winner of all three Olympic medals, has retired. The women’s team will now be led by Julia Taubitz, World Cup runner-up last year. USA Luge’s Summer Britcher finished right behind Taubitz. Anna Berreiter, third in last season’s Junior World Cup standings, could get a chance to race with the German World Cup team.

¯ Sandra Robatscher, of Italy, is out of the race lineup until January. The winner last year in Altenberg, Germany, Robatscher hurt her shoulder and was forced to undergo surgery, according to the FIL. “After the second shoulder operation I now have to rehab so that I can come back even stronger in January,” Robatscher wrote on Facebook.

  ¯ With less than 100 days to go to the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, the Olympic Channel has announced coverage plans for the third edition of the winter YOG to be held from Jan. 9-22, including live and on-demand event streaming, a dedicated YOG Channel and daily live shows. The Winter YOG are a multi-sport competition for young elite athletes from around the world between 15 and 18 years old and will feature an equal number of male and female athletes. USA Luge will enter a YOG team to compete in St. Moritz. The team raced on that hand-built track last winter. Women’s doubles will be included in the program.