SIGULDA, Latvia — Latvia swept a pair of luge World Cup races on home ice Sunday, and Emily Sweeney of Lake Placid won her team-high fourth medal of the season by helping the Americans finish third in a team relay. Kristers Aparjods won gold in the men’s singles race, his third career ...

IGLS, Austria (AP) — The opening weekend of the World Cup luge season was perfect for Austria. It was pretty good for Emily Sweeney, too. Austria claimed gold medals in all five races Sunday to cap a perfect 8-for-8 weekend for the host nation, which also swept wins in three races ...

LAKE PLACID — During a virtual press conference on Monday, USA Luge singles athletes Summer Britcher, of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, and Emily Sweeney, of Lake Placid, announced that they will join forces in doubles luge. Britcher is a three-time Olympian and has five World Cup career ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced on Wednesday that Elana Meyers Taylor, a four-time Olympian and five-time medal winner in the sport of bobsled, has been elected by the USOPC Athletes’ Advisory Council to serve as an athlete ...

Jayson Terdiman is done with sliding. He’s not done with luge. The two-time Olympian has been hired as a junior national team coach, USA Luge announced Thursday, while also making his retirement from competitive racing official. Terdiman said last December that he was retiring and ...

LAKE PLACID — If flying down a luge track at a near 70 mph wasn’t risky enough, imagine doing that without the possibility of making the Olympics. That’s what Sophie Kirkby, of Ray Brook, risked when she switched over from singles luge to doubles during the early stages of the ...