LAKE PLACID — USA Luge closed out the season this past weekend with the Masters Start Competition at the USA Luge Start Facility. The National Team celebrated its 14 World Cup medals and seven overall World Cup results in the top 10. Season highlights included podium finishes at the 2024 ...

LAKE PLACID — Last June, David Snypes Jr. was attending a para skeleton camp at the indoor push house facility at Mount Van Hoevenberg when someone told him that he should try pushing the bobsled off to the side. “I said, ‘Why not?’” Snypes said. “I took one push, and it felt ...

LAKE PLACID — U.S. para bobsled athlete and Veteran David Christopher loves the thrill of riding in a bobsled. After a motorcycle accident left Christopher paralyzed from the chest down nearly 10 years ago, bobsled has been a huge passion of his. “You kind of get that thrill,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...