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LAKE PLACID — The IBSF North American Cup kicked off at Mount Van Hoevenberg, marking the first outdoor competition of the 2023/2024 sliding season for the stars and stripes. This event also coincided with USABS’ Bobsled Selection Races. “The athletes have waited a long time to get back...

LAKE PLACID — USA Bobsled/Skeleton Monday, Nov. 20 announced the members of the bobsled team for the 2023/2024 IBSF World Cup competition season. The athletes named are as follows: Lauren Brzozowski, Kaysha Love and Elana Meyers Taylor for female pilots; Azaria Hill, Jasmine Jones, Jestena Mattson, Sydney Milani and Emily Renna for female push athletes; Frankie Del Duca and Geoff Gadbois for male pilots; and Adrian Adams, Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, Jace Johnson, Darius Joseph, Manteo Mitchell, David Simon, Carsten Vissering and Josh Williamson for male push athletes.

LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority recently announced that the International Skating Union has selected the Olympic Center as the main event partner for the 2023 World Ice Skating Day event to be held Sunday, Dec. 3. The factors that made Lake Placid the ISU’s top...

LAKE PLACID — Ski centers in the Olympic Region are preparing for opening day as snowmaking efforts ramp up and many fingers are crossed for natural snow at venues that don’t have snowmaking capabilities. – Whiteface Mountain. – The state Olympic Regional Development Authority has announced that the Whiteface Mountain...

Lake Placid, New York, will host the 2024 Congress for the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation and the International Luge Federation. The New York Olympic Regional Development Authority will play a role in hosting and organizing the two International Federations and national bobsled, skeleton and luge federations that will attend.

The Mirror Lake Inn Resort and Spa in Lake Placid, New York, has revealed that guests will have the opportunity to ski with Olympic medalists Andrew Weibrecht and Andrea Henkel Burke this winter. This comes after the successful introduction of the 'Ski With Andrew' program in the winter of 2018-2019. Here, guests could ski the trails of Whiteface Mountain with Andrew Weibrecht, a Super G Olympic silver and bronze medalist.

If you’re traveling through the Adirondacks, you expect to see towering mountains and trees, but if you’re near Lake Placid, you might see something entirely different towering above you: the two concrete pillars belonging to the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex. This Olympic Ski Jumping Complex has been used...

The Rhythmic National Team gathered in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center November 17-19 in Lake Placid, N.Y., for the annual High Performance Training Camp in preparation for the 2024 competition season. Led by both high performance national staff and National Team coaches, 30 individual and group athletes came...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — It's that time of the year again in Lake Placid. The winter sports season has returned to the Olympic Village, kicking things off with the first event at Mt. Van Hoevenberg since last March: The North American Cup (NAC). The NAC is a development bobsleigh...

Skiing and Snowboarding Top to Bottom for the Second Straight Year. Wilmington, NY– The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (Olympic Authority) announces that Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington will open Friday, Nov. 24, conditions permitting, with skiing and snowboarding from the summit to the base lodge. The snowmaking...

LAKE PLACID — USA Luge athletes kicked off the sliding season with the 2023 Norton National Champions in Lake Placid on Saturday, Nov. 11. The championships, held at Mount Van Hoevenberg, consisted of four disciplines under cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-20s. Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander won...

The Lake Placid girls cross country team wrapped up the running season with a solid performance at the NYSPHSAA cross country championships on Saturday, Nov. 11. The Blue Bomber girls took eighth place overall in the Class D race at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School. Lake Placid was the lone school in...

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Two former Vermont high school basketball players are combining their talents at one community college in Northern New York. Trevon Bradley, a 2023 graduate from Winooski High School, and Sharif Sharif, a 2023 graduate from Rice Memorial High School, played basketball together for several years on Vermont Elite, an AAU basketball club based out of Burlington. When the opportunity came to team up again at North Country Community College (NCCC) in Saranac Lake it was a chance the pair said they could not pass up.

LAKE PLACID — A brand new collegiate men’s hockey tournament will debut in Lake Placid in December. The Adirondack Winter Invitational men’s hockey tournament will bring together some of the top NCAA Division I programs in the nation for a tournament on Dec. 29 and 30 at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena.