BEIJING — USA Luge’s Chris Mazdzer had X-rays on his aching right foot a few days ago, and the results were as expected. It’s still broken. With that, it became official: The U.S. men’s luge team was never fully healthy at any point this season. There were no medals for ...

Things don’t always go according to plan, but occasionally someone can exceed even her wildest expectations. Such was the case for Deedra Irwin of Pulaski, Wisconsin, who on Monday turned in the best Olympic performance ever by an American biathlete, finishing seventh in the women’s ...

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 ...