Italy’s Winter Olympic sliding track ready for testing; Lake Placid is backup plan
The IOC has said that the three sliding sports would be moved to Lake Placid if the track in Italy isn’t ready in time for ...
It's not just Jamaica with a 'Cool Runnings' story. There are sliders from all over the world now
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — It doesn’t snow in Jamaica. Or Malta. Or Ghana. There’s been a maybe dusting reported on rare occasions ...
U.S. wins skeleton’s mixed team event at worlds ahead of Olympic debut; Mystique Ro earns individual silver
Mystique Ro goes into the Olympic season as the first American to win a world championships medal in skeleton since 2013. And Ro and Austin Florian will go into the Olympic debut of the mixed team ...
US wins gold in mixed skeleton race at world championships, with Britain 2nd and China 3rd
The U.S. won the mixed skeleton world championship for the first time Saturday night, after not even medaling in the first ...
Skeleton-Briton Weston scorches Lake Placid to win second world championship
Briton Matt Weston picked up his second men's skeleton World Championships win in Lake Placid, on Friday, winning by 1.90 ...
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In Lake Placid, a pair of athletes are sliding for Ukraine. They hope better days are ahead
"And then, the air raid system happened." Ukraine has never won a sliding sport medal — not in luge, bobsleigh or skeleton — at the Olympics. Heraskevych may have a chance at the world ...