CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — They chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and a few openly wept Sunday, Feb. 22 at Lake Placid’s Olympic Center, the same building where the “Miracle on Ice” happened exactly 46 years earlier. In Ohio, some waved flags inside a packed bar. And in Florida, a man ...

SARANAC LAKE — The meeting room of St. Bernard’s School rang with the sound of dozens of students screaming “USA! USA! USA!” as the kids had a watch party for the USA women’s hockey team’s gold medal game against Canada on Thursday, Feb. 19. They also had a special Olympic ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The U.S. women’s hockey team had just won Olympic gold, and veteran forward Kendall Coyne Schofield summed the moment up perfectly. “We did it!” she exclaimed. Plenty of American women — more than ever at a Winter Olympics — had the same sentiment ...

MILAN — Hilary Knight was in her last Olympics in Italy, wrapping up a stretch as the face of women’s hockey in the United States. Laila Edwards was in her first and could very well be Knight’s successor. The present and future of the sport combined on a spectacular tying goal late in ...

(Editor’s note: Richard Rosentreter is a former editor at the Lake Placid News, and currently the editor at the Malone Telegram.) LAKE PLACID — The 2026 United States men’s Olympic hockey team on Sunday, Feb. 22 beat Canada 2-1 in an overtime thriller and captured its first gold ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor has won World Cups, won world championships, already was the oldest woman to win an Olympic bobsled medal, recruited dozens of people to the sport and twice pulled off comebacks after becoming a mother. There was only one thing ...