LAKE PLACID — The 2017 summer skating series wraps up tonight with the Saturday Night Ice Show at the Olympic Center in the 1932 Rink Jack Shea Arena. American men’s singles skater Ryan Bradley will headline the show. Always a crowd favorite with his back flip, Bradley is a three-time ...
VIENNA (AP) — Marcel Hirscher’s preparations for the upcoming season were hindered Thursday after the six-time overall World Cup champion broke his left ankle in practice during his first day back on skis. The 28-year-old Austrian will be in a cast for six weeks, and there was no ...
LAKE PLACID — The United States rode a three-goal opening period to a 4-1 victory over Canada on Thursday to kick off a three-game series between each country’s under-18 women’s national ice hockey teams at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid. The U.S. took a 3-0 lead by burying ...
Not only will Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and most of the best hockey players in the world not be going to the Olympics, neither will anyone on an NHL contract. The league has decided that players with active NHL contracts, even those in the minors, will not be allowed to ...
LAKE PLACID — The summer skating series continues tonight in the 1932 Rink Jack Shea Arena with the Saturday Night Ice Show at the Olympic Center. The ice dance team of Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue headline the skating show. Hubbell and Donohue, who train in Montreal, Quebec, ...
PLYMOUTH, Mich. — Tony Granato was honored to get a call, offering him a chance to coach the U.S. men’s hockey team at the 2018 Olympics, the first without NHL players since 1994. When the Wisconsin coach heard and read some of the players he may lead in South Korea, he got even more ...
LAKE PLACID — First it was the alpine skiers, then biathletes, and finally, luge athletes were on hand to meet and talk with the public. On Thursday at the Olympic Museum in Lake Placid, the month-long Meet an Olympian series wrapped up with an appearance by members of USA Luge who are ...
Lake Placid native Nina Lussi captured the bronze medal Saturday at the 2018 U.S. Ski Jumping Championships on the HS134 meter hill at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah. Will Rhoads, of Park City, Utah, and Nita Englund, of Florence, Wisconsin, came away with gold in one of the most ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles has reached an agreement with International Olympic leaders that will open the way for the city to host the 2028 Summer Games, while ceding the 2024 Games to rival Paris, officials announced Monday. The deal would make LA a three-time Olympic city, after ...
CALGARY, Alberta — Elana Meyers Taylor and Justin Olsen were dominant Friday, wining their respective pilot titles in the 2017 USA Bobsled National Push Championships in Calgary’s Ice House with the fastest times of the competition. Meyers Taylor, a two-time Olympic medalist, topped ...
LAKE PLACID — A small crowd of kids and parents mingled about, wondering if it was OK to go up and touch the shiny things on the table. This being a museum, most people were hesitant. But Andrew Weibrecht didn’t mind, and soon kids were able to put their hands on genuine, hard-earned ...
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Steven Langton and Aja Evans came home with medals from the Sochi Olympics, and are now well on their way to getting the chance to compete for more hardware in Pyeongchang this winter. Langton and Evans were the winners of the U.S. bobsled push championships ...
CALGARY, Alberta — With the Olympic Games on the horizon, USA Bobsled and Skeleton is back on ice this week for the first official competition of the 2017-2018 season. The USA Bobsled National Push Championships will take place Thursday through Sunday in the Indoor Ice House in ...
LAKE PLACID — A pair of three-time Olympians highlighted last Thursday’s Meet an Olympian program at the Lake Placid Olympic Museum as U.S. biathletes Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke visited the museum to talk about their sport, pose for pictures and sign autographs. Last winter, the 35 ...
Lake Placid will host the International Children’s Games in 2019 and the Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in 2021, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday. Cuomo announced the news at the Adirondack Summer Challenge rafting trip in Indian Lake, and then tucked a written announcement at ...
LAKE PLACID — In an ideal world, every new season should bring hope and promise for good fortune and success. Especially if the previous year didn’t go very well. That’s the approach Lake Placid native Andrew Weibrecht is taking as he heads into a winter of alpine skiing that ...
LAKE PLACID — Ten USA Bobsled & Skeleton athletes were honored at the annual USABS awards banquet on Saturday at the Lake Placid Olympic Conference Center, capping the weeklong 2017 National Team Camp. The induction of Steven Holcomb to the USABS Hall of Fame both highlighted and ...
CONCORD, N.H. — Tom Corcoran, an Olympic skier who founded the Waterville Valley ski resort in New Hampshire that became popular with racers and celebrities, has died. He was 85. Former assistant Jan Stearns said Corcoran died Tuesday at his home in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, ...
WILMINGTON — Beatty Schlueter will assume the role of the New York Ski Educational Foundation’s Winter Term program director for the upcoming 2017-18 season. She has served as the development director and U10/12 head alpine coach at NYSEF for the last five years. Schlueter takes the ...
LAKE PLACID — Visiting officials from the World University Games on Wednesday lauded the Adirondacks’ potential to host its event and also noted that Lake Placid is the only host city they are currently considering for the 2023 games. Milan Augustin, director of the International ...