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Bobsled, skeleton World Cup season wraps up in Placid
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LAKE PLACID — The IBSF World Cup season concluded on home ice this week with three days of competition this past weekend. In the two-man bobsled event on Friday, Team USA’s Frank Del Duca and Manteo Mitchell placed fifth in a two-run time of 1 minute, 50.96 seconds. Teammates Kris Horn ...
Cornell tops St. Lawrence to earn ECAC title
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LAKE PLACID — A 14-year drought for the Cornell Big Red men’s hockey teams ended on Saturday. The Big Red defeated the St. Lawrence Saints 3-1 at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena to earn its first Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference crown since 2010. As sticks and ...
Mystique Ro earns skeleton gold
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LAKE PLACID — Team USA’s Mystique Ro recorded her first-ever World Cup win in the women’s skeleton event on Thursday, the opening day of the IBSF World Cup, at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The win marked the first World Cup victory by an American skeleton athlete in eight years. Ro won ...
Elana Meyers Taylor wins monobob silver
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LAKE PLACID — The 2023/2024 IBSF women’s monobob World Cup came to an end at Mount Van Hoevenberg with a race for the sporting history books. In the eighth race of the season, Breeana Walker — with a two-heat combined time of 1:58.67 — claimed the first bobsled World Cup victory for ...
’Round the Mountain Weekend set for May
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SARANAC LAKE — The annual ’Round the Mountain Canoe & Kayak Race is set for Saturday, May 11. Hosted by the Northern Forest Canoe Trail with support from over a dozen partners, ’Round the Mountain Weekend features the traditional Saturday race as well as the Freshet Film Festival, ...