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Can-Am Rugby turns 50

SARANAC LAKE — One of the largest rugby tournaments in the United States is set to return to the Tri-Lakes this weekend for three days of action, all while celebrating its 50th anniversary and expanding to Tupper Lake. The tournament, which started in 1974, will start on Friday, July 26 and ...

25th Ironman may have been his last

LAKE PLACID — Rich Donnelly, a 61-year-old copy editor at People magazine who lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, chose to be the last one in the water on Sunday, July 21 for the 25th Ironman Lake Placid triathlon. He’d competed at every Ironman race in Lake Placid since the first one ...

IOC awards 2034 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City

PARIS — What was expected to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City as the 2034 Winter Olympic host turned into complicated Olympic politics Wednesday, as the IOC pushed Utah officials to end an FBI investigation into a suspected doping coverup. The International Olympic Committee is ...

Ironman champions: Foley breaks record

LAKE PLACID — Despite trailing for most of the July 21 Ironman Lake Placid triathlon, Trevor Foley of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida kept preaching one word to himself over and over: Patience. “You’ll win the last 10 minutes of the race and that’s all that matters,’” Foley said. ...