LAKE PLACID — USA Bobsled and Skeleton is looking for new athletes who are interested in trying out for the sports in the hope of someday competing in the Olympic Winter Games. The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation posted a press release on its website May 18 promoting ...
LAKE PLACID — Aron McGuire was on the job as USA Bobsled and Skeleton CEO less than a month before he had to make a huge decision. Should the organization cancel the U.S. national championships set for March 20-21 at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid due to the coronavirus pandemic? The ...
SARANAC LAKE — We have all experienced the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in great and small ways. At this time, it seems like things are beginning to “look up” while the state and country begin to reopen and our summer is slowly and cautiously regaining the shape we so quickly lost ...
PAUL SMITHS — The Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center is going to be holding its Summer Trail Run series starting this Wednesday, and continuing until July 28. There will be a new course marked and left marked for the whole week starting on Wednesdays. The VIC also be ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Watershed Alliance, in cooperation with the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, has decided to cancel the 2020 Adirondack Canoe Classic, originally scheduled for Sept. 11-13. The decision is based on the uncertainty of the direction of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ...
PAUL SMITHS — The Paul Smith’s College women’s hockey team will have an uptick in student-athletes on the ice next season. Eleven players, who represent eight different states from across the nation have been recruited for the purpose of competing in the Presidential Division of ...
LAKE PLACID — USA Luge announced Wednesday the repositioning of its coaching staff. Bill Tavares, who started as a national team coach in 2010 and took over as head coach in 2017, has relinquished his position, but will remain with the team as it enters the upcoming winter World Cup and ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Watershed Alliance, in cooperation with the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, has decided to cancel the 2020 Adirondack Canoe Classic, originally scheduled for Sept. 11-13. The decision is based on the uncertainty of the direction of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ...
LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid News Editor Andy Flynn interviewed CAN/AM Hockey Group Director Eric Chapman on May 14 about how the cornonavirus pandemic has affected his business and what it means for the future. CAN/AM Hockey has been organizing hockey tournaments for youth and adults in Lake ...
LAKE PLACID — The CAN/AM Hockey Group based in Wisconsin is regrouping after canceling its final events at the Olympic Center this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Director Eric Chapman. Speaking by phone Thursday, May 14, Chapman talked about how the pandemic has ...
LAKE PLACID — So many things have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world. With the required shutdowns of recreational facilities to curb the spread of the virus, and the cancellation of major sporting events including Lake Placid’s ECAC Hockey Championship and ...
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 ...