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Local Olympians

‘I can’t retire, I’ve never had a job’

LAKE PLACID — Like every winter Olympic Games since 1984, North Country native John Morgan will be on the call for NBC’s broadcasts of bobsled events at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Morgan, a native of Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, has had bobsledding in his blood from a young age, ...

At Olympics, Holcomb still an inspiration for USA Bobsled

BEIJING — By now, Steven Holcomb might have been part of the USA Bobsled coaching staff. Perhaps he would have been involved in research and development. Or maybe he would be recruiting and wooing the next generation of sliders. He’d be involved, somehow. Yet make no mistake: nearly ...

Historic sweep for Germany, taking 3 medals in Olympic 2-man

BEIJING — Eins, zwei, drei. In German, that means one, two, three. And for the German bobsled team, it also means history. Germany — unquestionably the world’s sliding superpower — became the first nation to sweep the medals in an Olympic bobsled race on Tuesday, grabbing gold, ...

Germany holds 3 of top 4 spots at two-man midpoint

BEIJING — There’s never been an instance of one nation sweeping the medals in an Olympic bobsled event. Germany has a chance to change that. The world’s sliding superpower grabbed three of the top four spots at the midpoint of the two-man competition at the Beijing Olympics on ...

History for Humphries and Meyers Taylor

BEIJING — Kaillie Humphries crossed the finish line, jumped from her sled and hoisted an American flag that someone had just handed her into the frosty air. “U-S-A! U-S-A!” she chanted. Four years ago, nobody would have seen that coming. The former Canadian bobsled heroine is an ...

USA Luge concludes Olympics with 7th place in team relay

On the final day of luge racing at the Yanqing National Sliding Center in Beijing, China, the United States foursome of Ashley Farquharson and Chris Mazdzer in singles and doubles team of Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander capped off their Olympic experiences with a seventh-place ...