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Winter Olympic Sports

Summer Britcher earns bronze in women’s singles

LAKE PLACID — The last time U.S. luge Olympian Summer Britcher competed in a FIL Luge World Cup in Lake Placid, she missed the women’s singles podium by 0.269 seconds. Since then Britcher, the all-time USA Luge women’s singles leader for World Cup victories, has recorded just four ...

Kaysha Love wins World Cup debut as pilot in monobob

LA PLAGNE, France (AP) — U.S. Olympic bobsledder Kaysha Love won her World Cup driving debut on Saturday, rallying in the second heat to prevail in a women’s monobob event. Love was fifth after the first heat, then had the fastest time in the second heat. She finished two runs in 2 ...

Golden day for Di Gregorio, Hollander

LAKE PLACID — The men’s doubles team of Zachary Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander celebrated their first World Cup victory Friday on their home track at Mount Van Hoevenberg during the FIL Luge World Cup. The last World Cup win by a U.S. doubles team, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin, ...

Italy still hoping to have a home bobsled track for ’26 Olympics

MILAN — Italy’s sports minister is “more than confident” that ice sliding events at the 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Cortina d’Ampezzo, despite the IOC’s insistence that organizers should seek an existing venue outside the country. Organizers of the Milan-Cortina ...

Olympian Kaillie Humphries announces pregnancy

Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries has announced that she is missing this season because she and her husband, former bobsledder Travis Armbruster, are expecting their first child. Humphries made the revelation Monday, saying the baby is due in June. “Baby on board,” she wrote. The ...

Tucker West wins luge start competition

LAKE PLACID — Three-time U.S. Luge Olympian Tucker West earned first place at the luge Kick-off Start Competition on Friday evening at USA Luge Start Facility in Lake Placid. West and his USA Luge teammates competed against world-class athletes from around the world. The event, which ...