Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is a bobsled champion again, winning her third world title Saturday, Feb. 22 to put an emphatic cap on her comeback season. Humphries teamed with Lauren Gibbs to finish four runs over two days in Altenberg, Germany with a time of 3 minutes, 45.49 seconds. ...
The rally appearance, the red “Keep America Great” hats — none of it was planned, according to Mike Eruzione. On Friday, Feb. 21, members of the “Miracle on Ice” U.S. Olympic hockey team who stunned the world with a win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake ...
USA Luge pulled its team out of the World Cup luge races in Winterberg, Germany, adding to a chorus of athletes from many nations protesting what they were calling unsafe ice conditions. Austria also withdrew its team from the events Feb. 21-23, and even several sliders from Germany said ...
LAKE PLACID — It was a Monday, Aug. 11, 2003. New York Daily News Sports Writer Wayne Coffey had an appointment to interview 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey Coach Herb Brooks on the phone that evening for an upcoming book, “The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 ...
LAKE PLACID — John Rosen was sipping coffee while watching the sunrise, soaking in retirement with his wife, Nancy Rosen, at a campground in Oregon. It was July 2019, and the furthest thing from Rosen’s mind was the sliding sports of bobsled and skeleton. That is until he got a call ...
OBERHOF, Germany — USA Luge ended the Junior World Championships on Saturday, Feb. 22 in warm and windy Oberhof with a fourth-place result in the team competition, while doubles teams Sean Hollander and Michael O’Gara took sixth, Dana Kellogg with Duncan Segger were eighth, and Maya Chan ...
LAKE PLACID — With the international luge season winding down in the coming days, attention turns to the annual domestic races in March that close the competitive season for USA Luge. Koenigssee, Germany is the site of the World Cup finals Saturday, Feb. 29 and Sunday, March 1, as the ...
LAKE PLACID — The benefits of a miracle have been reaped in Lake Placid for 40 years. The plan now is to keep those miracles — and miracle-seekers — coming. Parts of Lake Placid’s sports landscape are largely under construction again these days, a plan that walks a tightrope ...
LAKE PLACID — Four Olympians and two aspiring Olympians — ranging from ages 16 to 65 — shared stories about their relationship to this village’s Olympic legacy Monday, Feb. 17 at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The event — “Lake Placid’s Olympic Legacy: An Athlete’s ...
LAKE PLACID — Sean McDevitt was a 16-year-old from Idaho on Jan. 31, 1980, when he began helping 51 other runners from around the United States bring the Olympic flame from Yorktown, Virginia, to Lake Placid for the XIII Olympic Winter Games. “There were three of us that were really ...
LAKE PLACID - Combining the thrill of NASCAR racing, the precision of cycling and the speed and agility of hockey, short track speedskating is one of the most extreme sports on skates. Fifty competitors representing three countries - the United States, Canada and Hong Kong - sped into the ...
LAKE PLACID - Sean McDevitt was a 16-year-old from Idaho on Jan. 31, 1980, when he began helping 51 other runners from around the United States bring the Olympic flame from Yorktown, Virginia, to Lake Placid for the XIII Olympic Winter Games."There were three of us that were really young: ...
LAKE PLACID - When torch bearer Steve Simon arrived in Lake Placid last week, he realized that the village looked pretty much the same as it had in 1980, when he arrived here prior to the XIII Olympic Winter Games."It's very much the same, which is very gratifying," he said at the High Peaks ...
LAKE PLACID - Every time the U.S. hockey team scored a goal over the Soviets Feb. 22 during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, a cowbell was rung outside the door of the Russian News Agency TASS.Students were dismissed from school during the games, and the Lake Placid Middle-High School was ...
LAKE PLACID - "This show was all about telling their stories," said Paul Wylie, 1992 Olympic figure skating silver medalist and director of sport for the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, referring to the 1980 Olympic figure skating team - the "Dream Team" - and the "Dream On" gala ...
LAKE PLACID - Tuesday, Feb. 18, was certainly quite the day for skating in Lake Placid, even more than usual.That's because it featured two skating events - the Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer fundraiser to benefit the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation from 3 to 5 p.m. on the Olympic Speedskating Oval and ...
SARANAC LAKE - The first-year combined Saranac Lake Placid boys hockey team is Section VII's regular season champion.SLP clinched the title on home ice Friday, Feb. 14, defeating Northeastern Clinton 2-1 in overtime at the Saranac Lake Civic Center.In an up-and-down the ice battle between the ...
LAKE PLACID - The Lake Placid Speed Skating Club racing series continued Feb. 9-10 with the Jack Shea Sprint Championships attracting nearly 40 skaters from throughout the United States and Canada. In addition to 500- and 1,000-meter races both days to determine the age category and overall ...
LAKE PLACID - At the Olympic Center during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, cheese sticks were a currency.North Elba Park District Manager Gene "Butch" Martin, 68, served as operations manager at the Olympic Center at the time. He remembers those games as a blur of rapid-fire activity, endless ...