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Lake Placid to honor 2022 Olympians with parade

LAKE PLACID — The village will welcome its Olympic athletes home from Beijing next week with a parade on Main Street, free public skating at the Olympic Speedskating Oval and athlete speakers. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing ended on Feb. 20, and the state Olympic Regional Development ...

Four teams to battle for ECAC title

LAKE PLACID — After a two-year absence because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Eastern College Athletic Conference men’s ice hockey championship will return to the Olympic Center in Lake Placid on Friday and Saturday. Battling for not only the ECAC title, but an automatic bid to the ...

Norton USA Luge junior national titles won as race season ends

It was literally a march to the top this month for USA Luge’s Marcus Mueller. He was one of 29 athletes racing on Sunday, March 13 in comfortable low 30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature in the Wasatch Mountains. At stake was the 2022 Norton championship and status for next year. After ...

Bobsled and skeleton athletes celebrate historic season

LAKE PLACID — American bobsled and skeleton athletes collected a combined 71 medals on the World Cup, Monobob, Para Sport, Intercontinental Cup, European Cup and North American Cup tours and claimed three medals at the 2022 Beijing Games to cap off a historic season. “We are so proud ...

OLYMPIC LEGACY: A time of many firsts

(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 ...

Scanio wins individual state title

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and Keene Nordic ski teams competed at the Gore Mountain Ski Bowl on Feb. 28 and March 1 at the 2022 NYSPHSAA Nordic State Championships, but only one local was able to leave a state champion. Lake Placid’s Andrew Scanio captured the ...