IOC ruling shuts door on Katie Uhlaender’s sixth Winter Olympics after Lake Placid controversy

Katie Uhlaender’s dream of competing at a sixth Winter Olympics has come to an abrupt end. The International Olympic ...

How a Canadian skeleton coach shook up the Olympic field and sparked controversy

On Jan. 11, Katie Uhlaender of the United States and 22 other women’s skeleton athletes were in Lake Placid, New York, preparing for a race that, for some, would be their last reasonable chance to ...

ON THE SCENE: A third Winter Olympics in Lake Placid?

Lake Placid host another Olympics? Not alone, but worth exploring was the consensus of the well-attended panel discussion ...
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Commentary: Lake Placid’s other ‘miracle’ was that the 1980 Olympics happened there at all

U.S. Olympic hockey player Mike Ramsey checks the Soviet Union's Valeri Kharlamov, No. 17, during an upset victory for the U.S. at the Winter Olympic Games on February 22, 1980, in Lake Placid. The ...