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Olympic CEO thinks sliding will be in Italy

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 ...

Registration opens for SL Youth Baseball and Softball

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Youth Baseball and Softball Association is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 season. Parents/guardians can register their kids for T-Ball, Rookie, and Majors and Minors softball and baseball online at www.slybsa.org. The ...

Back-to-back champs

LAKE PLACID — Cornell men’s hockey coach Mike Schafer was ready to retire last spring. But when one his assistants, who he hoped would take over the helm, left to coach Princeton’s hockey team, he felt he couldn’t leave just yet. “I knew I had a year left in me,” Schafer ...

ECAC hockey returns this weekend

LAKE PLACID — Quinnipiac, Clarkson, Dartmouth and Cornell are headed here after securing quarterfinal victories to advance to the ECAC Hockey Men’s Championship round set for Friday and Saturday in the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena. The defending Whitelaw Cup champion ...

USA luge athletes claim Junior National titles

PARK CITY, Utah — The Junior National Championships brought the competitive season to an end for the young athletes of USA Luge. Ellie Kleinheinz won the Junior — ages 19-21 — women’s division, Aidan Mueller won the men’s and the double team of Nathan Bivins and Wolfgang Lux won the ...