LAKE PLACID — Of the roughly 2,900 athletes expected to compete in the imminent Winter Olympics, only two have votes in how their sports are run — and both are local: Chris Mazdzer, a luge racer who grew up in Saranac Lake and lived for years in Lake Placid, and Clare Egan, a biathlete who ...

BEIJING — China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invited the world back Friday — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Games, this time as an emboldened and more powerful nation whose government’s authoritarian turn provoked some countries’ ...

LAKE PLACID — It was Jan. 10, and the U.S. luge athletes at the Zoom press conference had just made the Olympic team — but they were far from celebratory. Except for some laughs and jokes from Summer Britcher, the mood was weary. “This has definitely been a very tough year,” ...

BEIJING — Difficult as it was hearing Brianna Decker crying out in pain while laying prone on the ice, Kendall Coyne Schofield understood the U.S. women’s hockey team still had a game to finish. After the Americans wrapped up their 5-2 win over Finland to open the Beijing Games, ...

BEIJING — The Russian women’s hockey team held its first pre-Olympic practice Thursday after three days in isolation because of positive coronavirus tests and appears on track to play its tournament opener. The Russians practiced without five members of their 25-player roster, leaving ...

LAKE PLACID — The U.S. luge team has sent athletes for two doubles sleds every year since the sport debuted on the Olympic roster in 1964 at Innsbruck, Austria — except 1968 and 2022, when they sent only one sled. This year, that sled is being occupied by Lake Placid’s Sean Hollander ...