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Winter Olympic Sports

Sexual harassment on US Biathlon team leads to sanctions

U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician while racing on the elite World Cup circuit, a watchdog group that oversees sex-abuse allegations in Olympic sports found. When the two-time Olympian complained, she says she was told ...

Location of 2026 Olympic sliding events to be decided soon

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — A standoff between the IOC and 2026 Winter Games officials in Italy about using a sliding track for bobsled, skeleton and luge in another country should be resolved by the end of the month, the Olympic body said on Jan. 18. The International Olympic Committee has ...

Location of 2026 Winter Olympics sliding track to be decided within 2 weeks

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — A standoff between the IOC and 2026 Winter Games officials in Italy about using a bobsled track in another country should be resolved within two weeks, the Olympic body said Thursday, Jan. 18. The International Olympic Committee has repeatedly insisted that an ...

Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby take bronze in Igls World Cup

INNSBRUCK, Austria — For the fourth consecutive World Cup event, USA Luge had athletes standing on the podium. Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby won the bronze in the women’s doubles competition in Innsbruck, Austria — the home of the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Winter Games. Ashley ...

Jamaican bobsledders eye Saranac Lake training HQ

SARANAC LAKE — The village of Saranac Lake and town of Harrietstown are supporting a potential partnership between Franklin County and the Jamaican bobsled team, in which the county would put up $135,000 of bed tax dollars to make the Hotel Saranac the team’s home away from home while they ...

‘He made me feel special’

LAKE PLACID — USA Luge Marketing Manager and Ukraine expatriate Dmitry Feld ended many of his emails “Big Hug” or simply “D.” As a community leader, D had big hugs for everyone ... until Wednesday, Jan. 10, when he died at a Burlington hospital at the age of 68. Having grown up ...