LAKE PLACID — The cold air that moved into the Adirondacks over the weekend made for fast ice at the Mount Van Hoevenberg track Saturday and Sunday for the Viessmann Luge World Cup. Track records were set, the U.S. luge team walked away with five medals, and the U.S. doubles sled ...
KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin’s winning margins in World Cup slaloms just get more remarkable. One weekend after finishing 1.78 seconds ahead of her opponents in Finland, Shiffrin was a massive 2.29 seconds clear of her biggest rival, Petra Vlhova, in the United States on ...
LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Health 5K Turkey Trot drew a large crowd Thursday as 233 runners/walkers congregated at the Olympic Speedskating Oval for the annual charity race. Brian Woods was the first overall finisher to cross the line, recording a time of 17 minutes, 33.7 seconds on a ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Bitters & Bones Turkey Trot just keeps getting bigger and better. On Thursday, the 5k race was held for the fifth straight time on Thanksgiving Day in Saranac Lake, and unlike a year ago when the temperatures were in negative digits, the weather turned out to be ...
LAKE PLACID — Two-time Olympian Summer Britcher gave the United States National Luge Team its first medal of the season at the first World Cup in Innsbruck/Igls, Austria this past weekend, and the team is looking forward to spending Thanksgiving week on their home track training for World ...
LEVI, Finland (AP) — Coming off a record-breaking season with 17 race wins, Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t need much time in the new campaign to reach yet another milestone. The American set the all-time World Cup record for most slalom wins by any skier on Saturday, after earning her 41st ...
LEVI, Finland (AP) — Henrik Kristoffersen has finally triumphed again in a men’s World Cup slalom after 22 months, winning the first race since the retirement of his longtime nemesis Marcel Hirscher. Competing in foggy conditions and snowfall, Kristoffersen edged first-run leader ...
SOCHI, Russia — In only her second career Intercontinental Cup event, Kelly Curtis led USA Skeleton with sixth- and eighth-place finishes on the 2014 Olympic track in Sochi, Russia over the weekend. Sara Roderick, who just began competing last season, posted a 10th-place finish for another ...
The Saranac Lake boys cross country team turned in another outstanding performance Saturday with a third-place finish at the New York State Federation Cross Country Championships at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls. The Red Storm, who repeated as Class C state champions last week, were ...
LAKE PLACID — Community Bank, N.A. will return as the Title Sponsor of the Empire State Winter Games for the next three years (2020-2022). The extended partnership begins in January when the ESWGs celebrates 40 years of competition in the Adirondack region. “We’re excited to ...
PAUL SMITHS — Stephanie Tyski has a competitive desire that for a long time she could not satiate. She used to play volleyball, but after suffering a serious concussion, sports were a no-go. She spent the rest of her high school career and some of her college years missing that sense of ...
LAKE PLACID — The USA Bobsled National Team for the 2019-2020 season was named Thursday following the conclusion of a series of trials races. Six athletes were named to the women’s team. Brittany Reinbolt earned her spot at the helm of USA 1 with her USA Bobsled National Championship ...
Whether you had a gold medal hanging from your neck, were just learning how to stand on a snowboard, or were one of those flustered skiers wondering where all the kids in the baggy pants were coming from, you knew the name “Burton.” Jake Burton Carpenter, the man who changed the game ...
LAKE PLACID — Hunter Church, Dakota Lynch, Blaine McConnell and Adrian Adams finished out USA Bobsled National Team Trials as the top American sled after a silver medal performance in Thursday’s four-man bobsled competition in the Lake Placid North American Cup. Katie Uhlaender ...
The closest that an American woman has come to winning the overall World Cup luge championship was in 1992, when Cammy Myler finished second to Germany’s Susi Erdmann by a single point in a chase that was decided by less than one-tenth of a second. Things could change this ...
LAKE PLACID — Nearly nine months has elapsed since the last Viessmann World Cup luge race was held. Fast forward to the new 2019-2020 season, and the tour finds itself reconnecting on the familiar ice of Igls, Austria where the campaign gets underway Saturday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. ...
LAKE PLACID — Codie Bascue and Josh Williamson led the men’s field in USA Bobsled Team Trials after a gold medal performance in the opening two-man bobsled North American Cup race of the season Monday, Nov. 18. Team Bascue finished almost a quarter of a second ahead of reigning ...
U.S. bobsledder Steven Holcomb is getting one last victory celebration. A long overdue one. More than 2 1/2 years after his death — and almost six years removed from the bobsled races in question — Holcomb and his team are about to finally be presented the silver medals that they ...
PLATTSBURGH — It wasn’t even close. With an opportunity to claim their second straight state title, Saranac Lake’s boys turned in a dominating performance Saturday to win the Class C crown at the NYSPHSAA Cross Country Championships at SUNY Plattsburgh. The Red Storm placed ...
PLATTSBURGH — While the Saranac Lake’s boys team was enjoying glory in the spotlight for the second year in a row, other runners from the Tri-Lakes were also competing on New York’s biggest stage Saturday in the NYSPHSAA Cross Country Championships at SUNY Plattsburgh. As the ...