CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — They chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and a few openly wept Sunday, Feb. 22 at Lake Placid’s Olympic Center, the same building where the “Miracle on Ice” happened exactly 46 years earlier. In Ohio, some waved flags inside a packed bar. And in Florida, a man ...

SARANAC LAKE — The meeting room of St. Bernard’s School rang with the sound of dozens of students screaming “USA! USA! USA!” as the kids had a watch party for the USA women’s hockey team’s gold medal game against Canada on Thursday, Feb. 19. They also had a special Olympic ...

(Editor’s note: Richard Rosentreter is a former editor at the Lake Placid News, and currently the editor at the Malone Telegram.) LAKE PLACID — The 2026 United States men’s Olympic hockey team on Sunday, Feb. 22 beat Canada 2-1 in an overtime thriller and captured its first gold ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor has won World Cups, won world championships, already was the oldest woman to win an Olympic bobsled medal, recruited dozens of people to the sport and twice pulled off comebacks after becoming a mother. There was only one thing ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Germany left no doubt, again: It dominates the men’s bobsled world. Johannes Lochner left no doubt, either: In his farewell season, he’s going out as the most unbeatable bobsledder on the planet. Making it look as easy as one, two, three — or eins, ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Matt Weston doesn’t always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt — he’s the best skeleton racer in the world. Capping a four-year run that featured one remarkable finish after ...