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Local Olympians

The Olympic experience

BEIJING (AP) — Another day, another German Olympic luge threepeat. The best sliding nation in the world is leaving absolutely no doubt at the Beijing Games. Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won the doubles title at the Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 9, their third consecutive gold medal in ...

Olympians Mazdzer, Egan help run their sports

LAKE PLACID — Of the roughly 2,900 athletes competing in the 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Beijing, China, only two have votes in how their sports are run — and both are local: Chris Mazdzer, a luger who grew up in Saranac Lake and lived for years in Lake Placid, and Clare Egan, a ...

OLYMPIC LEGACY: ‘Switzerland of America’

(Editor’s note: This story is part of an “Olympic Legacy” series to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the III Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid in 1932. What happened that year led to this village hosting the XIII Olympic Winter Games in 1980 and the continuing legacy of training ...

Olympic medalist Chris Mazdzer fired up for Beijing

SARANAC LAKE — Chris Mazdzer says the Olympics feel a little weird this time around. No kidding. After the former Saranac Laker won silver four years ago in South Korea — the first non-European male to win an Olympic medal in singles luge — he decided to raise the degree of difficulty. ...

Meyers Taylor tests positive for COVID

World Cup champion Elana Meyers Taylor’s quest to add to her Olympic medal total at the Beijing Games is in jeopardy after the veteran U.S. women’s bobsled pilot revealed Tuesday, Feb. 1 she has tested positive for COVID-19. USA Bobsled and Skeleton remains hopeful that Meyers Taylor ...

Luge moms ready for cowbells at watch parties

LAKE PLACID — The Winter Olympics kick off Friday, Feb. 4, and the #lugemoms are switching their schedules to Beijing time. Even though USA Luge athletes such as Emily Sweeney, Chris Mazdzer and Jonny Gustafson will slide through their luge competitions next week without the sound of ...