After all, this is New York’s Olympic Region. The North Country has sent at least one athlete to every Winter Olympics since the first one in 1924 at Chamonix, France. Lake Placid’s Charles Jewtraw, a speedskater, won the first gold medal of any Winter Olympics that year in the 500-meter race. Plus, Lake Placid hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and continues to train athletes from around the world at our local facilities, which also host international events.

We have an Olympic legacy to uphold, not just as a village, a region and a state — but as two local newspapers that have covered the Olympic movement in the Adirondacks since 1929, when Lake Placid was chosen to host the III Olympic Winter Games in 1932.

While the days of sending writers and editors to cover the Olympics in person may be behind us — we sent reporters to the 2002, 2010 and 2014 games — our editorial staff will again work from our newsroom to give readers the Olympic news important to the Adirondacks. We’re tracking local athletes and the teams that train here and call Lake Placid home: USA Luge, USA Bobsled & Skeleton, U.S. Biathlon and USA Nordic.

Our preview — a viewing guide to the Winter Olympics — will be included in the Feb. 4 and 5 issues of the News and Enterprise, respectively.

We’ll have local athlete profiles and previews of the U.S. teams. Before and after the games, we’ll use a combination of reports from local writers and editors, U.S. Olympic teams, the Associated Press and other media outlets to complete our coverage.

As Beijing is 13 hours ahead of the Adirondacks, that means our days between Feb. 4 and 20 will begin early and end late. The Enterprise will have at least two results pages daily during the games, starting on Monday, Feb. 7 and ending on Saturday, Feb. 19. The News will have Olympic coverage during the games — Feb. 11 and 18 — and in the following issue.

With 109 events in seven sports, we won’t be able to cover every competition, but we will give our readers a localized view of the games — news and results from an Adirondack point of view.

We’re proud to continue the Winter Olympic coverage we began 90 years ago in Lake Placid. And we’re proud of our local teams, which we cover every year — not just every four years. That’s what sets the News and Enterprise apart from other news outlets in the region. We follow our teams and athletes every step of the way, from the last Winter Olympics to the next Winter Olympics — and every World Cup and milestone in between.

Pick up copies of the News and Enterprise from now until the end of February to get the area’s best Winter Olympic previews and coverage from Beijing. Better yet, subscribe to both newspapers to get ongoing coverage of our local teams year-round and be a part of our Olympic legacy.