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Figure and fancy skating champs return

LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority announces that the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships will return to the Olympic Center from Oct. 9 to 13 for the second consecutive year. The event will include a Brushes to Blades of Steel pop-up museum. All ...

Nordic nationals take place this weekend

LAKE PLACID — Elite-level Nordic combined athletes and ski jumpers from the U.S. will compete here this weekend at the United States Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined National Championships during the Flaming Leaves Festival. Athletes will jump at the Olympic Jumping Complex on Saturday, ...

Blue Bomber girls run to McQuaid Invitational win

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid girls cross country running team continued its dominating season Saturday, Sept. 28, winning the Division 2 race at the 59th annual McQuaid Invitational at the Genesee Valley Park in Rochester. The girls Division 2 race featured 341 finishers across 33 ...

Lake Placid native takes on UCI Mountain Bike World Series

LAKE PLACID — As hundreds of elite mountain bike riders descended on Lake Placid this past weekend, among them included Lake Placid native Beckett Ledger. Ledger competed early in the morning on Sept. 29 in the Union Cycliste Internationale Marathon World Cup men’s elite division. The ...

French, Austrian bikers win final World Cup at Mount Van Ho

LAKE PLACID — The Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Bike World Series at Mount Van Hoevenberg wrapped up on Sunday, Sept. 29 with back-to-back exciting races in the men’s and women’s elite division’s cross-country Olympic World Cup. France’s Victor Koretzky won the men’s ...

Welcome, world

LAKE PLACID — As the Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Biking World Series is slated to kick off on Friday, Sept. 27 at Mount Van Hoevenberg, this village is gearing up for a big weekend. The UCI Mountain Bike World Series, which is being put on by UCI and Warner Bros. with the help ...