KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Andrew Weibrecht’s wait for another top-three result in a super-G reached the two-year mark on Friday. But struggling with persistent knee problems and finishing 24th in the last World Cup race before the Pyeongchang Olympics haven’t dashed the Lake Placid ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — The Wonder Woman suit. The red cape with a big "J'' printed on it. The plastic tiara. Julia Mancuso's outlandish costume for her retirement ski race was a reminder of what made her so great: she was a free-spirited Californian who consistently beat the ...
LAKE PLACID — Let the show begin. The top aerials skiers on the planet will soar above the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex as the World Cup freestyle tour makes its regular January visit to Lake Placid today and Saturday. There will be quite a bit more on the line this time around for ...
SARANAC LAKE — The North Country Community College women’s soccer team was one of 10 college and university soccer programs across the country to be selected for the 2017 Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Platinum Award. The United Soccer Coaches Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award ...
SARANAC LAKE — After posting three victories in a row and winning five out of their last six games, skaters on the Saranac Lake Placid girls hockey team may have been dealt a harsh dose of reality when Beekmantown came to visit on Wednesday for a league matchup. With senior Kiersten ...
Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and bobsledder Nick Cunningham continued their social media conversation about a possible trip down the track at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid on Tuesday. Earnhardt, a two-time Daytona 500 winner who was named as NASCAR’s most popular ...
PLATTSBURGH — The Saranac Lake girls and boys indoor track teams traveled to SUNY Plattsburgh on Wednesday night for a midweek meet. Saranac Lake’s Anderson Gray and Tyler Martin each won individual events and were part of the winning 4x800-meter relay team that finished in 9 minutes, ...
Preview story coming Friday. More photos coming Saturday.
Laura Schuler always wanted to coach hockey. A member of Canada’s first women’s national team, she just never thought she would get the chance to coach her nation’s team on the world’s biggest stage. She was wrong. Schuler is the first former national team player to coach the ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The Olympic downhill is little more than a month away and Lindsey Vonn is finally ready to start attacking at 100 percent again. Forget that unusual image of the 78-time World Cup winner skiing cautiously amid difficult weather conditions in Austria last ...
LAKE PLACID — Tucked away in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2018-19 state budget proposal Tuesday is a huge gift for the Lake Placid area — $62.5 million in capital funding for the state Olympic Regional Development Authority. Details are scarce at this point, but state Sen. Betty Little said ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Lake Placid girls basketball team made the short trip to Saranac Lake Tuesday night and returned home victorious after topping the Red Storm 31-24. Both teams started off slow, with Lake Placid finally putting some points on the board about midway through the first ...
SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said. The agreements still ...
PARK CITY, Utah — Gus Kenworthy’s life has changed, and unlike most athletes who make it big at the Olympics, it’s only partly because of the medal he won. When he left Sochi four years ago, Kenworthy was known as the silver medal-winning, dog-saving freestyle skier who was part of ...
LAKE PLACID — Breaths froze instantly, filling the air with a light haze that was quickly burned off by the rising sun Monday morning as local boys claimed five of the top 10 spots in the Section VII Invitational skiathlon at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Lake Placid’s Scott Schulz and Saranac ...
MASSENA — The Saranac Lake Placid girls hockey team continued its recent hot streak, and at the same time, displayed some impressive firepower during a 10-3 win Monday at Massena. With Tess Stanton netting a natural hat trick in the opening period, SLP rolled out to a 4-0 lead and tacked ...
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Olympic great Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has failed to make Norway’s biathlon team for the Pyeongchang Games, missing out on a chance to compete at his seventh Olympics. With 13 medals, including eight gold, Bjoerndalen is the most decorated Winter Olympian in ...
Justin Olsen has an Olympic bobsled gold medal as a brakeman, and now gets the chance to pursue one as a driver. Olsen, Nick Cunningham and Codie Bascue were announced today as the three drivers on the U.S. men’s Olympic bobsled team for the Pyeongchang Games. Each will compete in the ...
Katie Uhlaender is going to the Olympics for the fourth time, still looking for her first medal. That is, unless she’s seeking a second. Uhlaender was nominated today to the U.S. Olympic skeleton team for the Pyeongchang Games, making her the first American to be a four-timer in ...