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Team USA’s Elana Meyers Taylor wins monobob silver

LAKE PLACID — The IBSF women’s monobob World Cup season came to an end at Mount Van Hoevenberg on March 22 with a race for the sporting history books. In the eighth race of the season, Breeana Walker — with a two-heat combined time of 1 minute, 58.67 seconds — claimed the first ...

Mystique Ro earns skeleton gold

LAKE PLACID — Team USA’s Mystique Ro recorded her first-ever World Cup win in the women’s skeleton event on Thursday, March 21, the opening day of the IBSF World Cup, at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The win marked the first World Cup victory by an American skeleton athlete in eight ...

Bobsled, skeleton World Cup season wraps up in Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID — The IBSF World Cup season concluded on home ice this week with three days of competition this past weekend. In the two-man bobsled event on March 22, Team USA’s Frank Del Duca and Manteo Mitchell placed fifth in a two-run time of 1 minute, 50.96 seconds. Teammates Kris ...

Cornell tops St. Lawrence to earn ECAC hockey title

LAKE PLACID — A 14-year drought for the Cornell Big Red men’s hockey team ended on Saturday, March 23. The Big Red defeated the St. Lawrence Saints 3-1 at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena to earn its first Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference crown since 2010. As ...

Welcome, world, we’re ready for bobsled and skeleton

LAKE PLACID — The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation Bobsled World Cup season will conclude this weekend with the eight World Cup races at the Olympic Sports Complex at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The three-day competition, which starts on March 21 in Lake Placid, is the final ...