LAKE PLACID — With the luge season right around the curve, some of the nation’s top luge athletes will gather at the USA Luge refrigerated indoor start training complex on Friday, Sept. 13. At stake will be the annual start championship title. The competitions will take place at the ...

LAKE PLACID — As USA Luge’s new Marketing Manager Yuliia Tyshevych sat at her desk inside the organization’s office Tuesday, everything was neat and orderly. It’s an unusual sight for the USA Luge office. The former marketing manager, Dmitry Feld, who died on Jan. 10, wasn’t ...

LAKE PLACID — Elizabethtown native Max Van Wie was all smiles speeding down the upcoming Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Biking World Series course on Friday, Aug. 23 at the Olympic Sports Complex, at Mount Van Hoevenberg. While Van Wie, who built and designed the course, has ...

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake resident Sydney Aveson enjoys hiking, paddling or going on picnics after work — the typical Adirondack outdoor activities. But more than a decade ago, Aveson was leading the Plattsburgh State women’s hockey team between the pipes to its third NCAA Division ...

LAKE PLACID — After hosting back-to-back men’s FIS ski jumping World Cups, this village is slated to add a women’s ski jumping World Cup to its preexisting men’s competition this winter. The event has been a big priority for USA Nordic and the state Olympic Regional Development ...

JAY — Around 125 entrants competed in the Team Placid Planet’s West-Woodward Memorial Time Trial — the 2024 New York State Time Trial Championships — on Aug. 18. Sunny skies greeted the racers, but so did a stiff headwind on the out leg. The event, which was held on state Route ...