LAKE PLACID — Prior to the start of the FISU Winter World University Games, Van Ledger said his goal was to qualify for the men’s biathlon 15K mass start. Not only did Ledger, a Lake Placid native and chemical engineering student at Montana State University, qualify for the event — ...

May 10: 490 lbs. May 31 (surgery): 460 lbs. Jan. 24: 389 lbs. Total lost: 101 lbs. - I knew that covering the first day of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Winter World University Games — Thursday, Jan. 12 — would be a challenge, yet it wasn’t until the last day of the event that I would ...

LAKE PLACID — High school senior Bella Wissler said on Saturday, Jan. 21 that she had been at Mount Van Hoevenberg every day during the Winter World University Games, testing out the cross-country ski course and pointing out imperfections right before athletes hit it for ...

LAKE PLACID — With two hockey rivals vying for a gold medal in front of a packed crowd in the 1980 Herb Brooks Arena, Sunday’s men’s hockey final between the United States and Canada had all the making of an instant classic. That wasn’t the case as the Canadian men dominated the ...

LAKE PLACID — If Niklas Malacinski hadn’t already put the Nordic combined world on notice, he definitely did it at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Winter World University Games. Malacinski, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, won his fourth medal of the FISU Winter World University Games — a ...

LAKE PLACID — In the 10 long track speedskating races held during the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Winter World University Games, 10 track records were broken, including the 40.90 500-meter track record set by five-time Olympic gold medalist Bonnie Blair in 1987 and Eric Heiden’s 5,000-meter ...