BEIJING — Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney have won World Cup races. They’ve each medaled at the world championships. They’ve each won national championships. Their careers have already been, by any measure, a success. And now both are facing the same decision — keep sliding, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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. ...

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 ...