LAKE PLACID — Ukrainian luge athlete Oleksandra Mokh has spent this past week preparing for her first-ever FIL Luge World Cup on U.S. soil. Back home, her brother is fighting in the Ukrainian army, which is fending off a Russian invasion that started nearly two years ago. Mokh, 19, ...
WHISTLER, BRITISH COLOMBIA — Team USA slid on three different tracks in three different countries this past week: Whistler, British Columbia, Lillehammer, Norway and Bludenz, Austria. The two-day action began on Nov. 29 with the North American Cup women’s monobob and two-man bobsled. ...
LAKE PLACID — Three-time U.S. Luge Olympian Tucker West earned first place at the luge Kick-off Start Competition on Friday evening at USA Luge Start Facility in Lake Placid. West and his USA Luge teammates competed against world-class athletes from around the world. The event, which ...
Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries has announced that she is missing this season because she and her husband, former bobsledder Travis Armbruster, are expecting their first child. Humphries made the revelation Monday, saying the baby is due in June. “Baby on board,” she wrote. The ...
LAKE PLACID — U.S. luge Olympian Chris Mazdzer spent this past Saturday working on his sled at the USA Luge training facility. “It’s the thing that no one sees,” he said. The four-time Olympian and 2018 luge silver medalist who grew up in Saranac Lake has spent countless hours ...
LAKE PLACID — More than 400 residents and visitors participated in the 14th annual Adirondack Health 5K Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving day, Thursday, Nov. 23, making their way around Mirror Lake. “This is our largest year,” race organizer Andrea Chamberlain said after being told before ...