LAKE PLACID — Four Olympians and two aspiring Olympians — ranging from ages 16 to 65 — shared stories about their relationship to this village’s Olympic legacy Monday, Feb. 17 at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The event — “Lake Placid’s Olympic Legacy: An Athlete’s ...

LAKE PLACID — Sean McDevitt was a 16-year-old from Idaho on Jan. 31, 1980, when he began helping 51 other runners from around the United States bring the Olympic flame from Yorktown, Virginia, to Lake Placid for the XIII Olympic Winter Games. “There were three of us that were really ...

LAKE PLACID - When torch bearer Steve Simon arrived in Lake Placid last week, he realized that the village looked pretty much the same as it had in 1980, when he arrived here prior to the XIII Olympic Winter Games."It's very much the same, which is very gratifying," he said at the High Peaks ...

LAKE PLACID - Every time the U.S. hockey team scored a goal over the Soviets Feb. 22 during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, a cowbell was rung outside the door of the Russian News Agency TASS.Students were dismissed from school during the games, and the Lake Placid Middle-High School was ...

LAKE PLACID - "This show was all about telling their stories," said Paul Wylie, 1992 Olympic figure skating silver medalist and director of sport for the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, referring to the 1980 Olympic figure skating team - the "Dream Team" - and the "Dream On" gala ...

LAKE PLACID - Tuesday, Feb. 18, was certainly quite the day for skating in Lake Placid, even more than usual.That's because it featured two skating events - the Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer fundraiser to benefit the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation from 3 to 5 p.m. on the Olympic Speedskating Oval and ...