LAKE PLACID — All sports have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps one of the hardest hit is figure skating and other ice-based sports. As non-essential businesses, most rinks have been closed, and social distancing requirements would preclude skaters from practicing ...
LAKE PLACID — Overnight youth soccer camps operated by Lake Placid Soccer Centre have been canceled for this summer. The eight-day camp at St. Lawrence University was scheduled for July18 to 25. Lake Placid Soccer Centre opened its first summer camp in 1976, and the 43 years since then ...
LAKE PLACID — The Ironman Lake Placid triathlon, originally scheduled for July 26, was postponed on Friday and is hoped to be held later in the summer season. In a 27-second video clip on the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism Facebook page Friday afternoon, ROOST’s Lake Placid ...
LAKE PLACID — Olympic bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic took his life on Sunday, May 3 at the age of 43. The Toms River, N.J. native started the sport of bobsled in 1997. He went on to win a World Championship bronze medal in 2004, and to finish seventh in both the two-and four-man events at ...
LAKE PLACID — A string of 50 years in a row has come to an end. On Thursday morning, the board of the Lake Placid Horse Show Association unanimously voted to cancel the two-week-long equestrian events that had been scheduled to take place at the North Elba Show Grounds from June 23 to ...
In 1976, the “Dorothy Hamill Skating Special” celebrated then-current Olympic and World champion Dorothy Hamill with a biographical song crooned by Gene Kelly. “Soon her family heard that she much preferred to become proficient on skates, and she saw the trick of arithmetic doing ...
Chris Mazdzer was supposed to be in Thailand this past weekend. The 2018 Olympic men’s luge silver medalist was going to be getting married there on Saturday, May 2, before resuming training for another World Cup sliding season. The wedding is postponed, just pushed back a year. The season ...
LAKE PLACID — The future of USA Luge, numbering 76 athletes at various levels, was announced Friday, May 1 as the national governing body released the names of its 2020-2021 Junior National Team and Junior C and D teams. Zack DiGregorio, of Medway, Mass., is the lone member of the Junior ...
SARANAC LAKE — Some great ideas have arisen from these tough times dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. North Country Radio and Bike ADK have teamed up to come up with one of those concepts, and it’s a win-win situation for all involved. The plan, conceived about three weeks ago, is ...
Jayson Terdiman, a two-time Olympic luge athlete who lives in Lake Placid, added another memento to the shelves in his home where he keeps the many medals and trophies he has won around the world. But his latest addition to the collection has nothing to do with sliding on ice. Instead, ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Marathon and Half will be moved from June 14 to Aug. 23 due to uncertainty over the current stay-at-home restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to owner Greg Borzilleri. The decision came Wednesday after Borzilleri and other major Tri-Lakes ...
LAKE PLACID — Usually at this time of year, John Burdick could probably be seen in the afternoon at a high school baseball game or a track meet. As the director of athletics, as well a longtime coach for the Lake Placid Central School District, Burdick has been a familiar face at Blue ...
Sophie Kirkby first hopped on a luge sled 10 years ago, and it’s been steady progress ever since. A decade into her career, Kirkby, who lives in Ray Brook, said she’s had some great experiences traveling in Europe and she’s seen some success climbing up the competitive ladder, but she ...
SARANAC LAKE — After being ordered closed earlier this month, golf courses across New York state are permitted to reopen. In warmer parts of the state, many courses had already opened for the season before the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping across New York and the nation. As a result ...
The spring sports season for local schools and other activities are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that does not mean Lake Placid and Keene central schools are not working hard to keep their kids healthy. They are, yet the activities are not competitive and filling newspaper ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Marathon and Half is helping local health care workers and first responders with an essential piece of their wardrobe during the COVID-19 pandemic: footwear. Greg Borzilleri, owner of the Lake Placid Marathon and Half, recently ordered 142 pairs of Skechers ...
LAKE PLACID — The past winter sports season will always be one to remember. Perhaps, one of the most, if not the most lasting memories by individual athletes and teams alike will be having their seasons cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. But before that happened, plenty of fond ...
LAKE PLACID — As cabin fever continues to ravage the world, the Lake Placid Marathon and Half is helping people stay active by offering the 2020 Virtual Around-the-Lake event, which began Tuesday, April 14 and will continue through May 1. All proceeds will benefit the Lake Placid ...
LAKE PLACID — The Ironman Lake Placid triathlon has a new owner, an American media company. Held every summer since 1999, the Lake Placid race is the longest running Ironman 140.6-mile distance event in North America, outside of the World Championships in Hawaii. Lake Placid also added a ...
LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority is currently looking into how the governor’s shutdown of all non-essential construction will affect its venue upgrades. “We are looking at that right now, and we’ll know exactly what that implication is,” said Scott ...