Lake Placid, Francesco Friedrich and bobsled

Francesco Friedrich of Germany wins 16th world bobsled championship, taking 4-man in Lake Placid
Friedrich capped another year when he was the best bobsledder in the world, winning medals in all 17 of his major international races (15 World Cups, plus the two-man and four-man events in Lake Placid). He won 10 golds, also best in the world this year, with six silvers and one bronze.
Francesco Friedrich gets 16th bobsled world title with 4-man win
Francesco Friedrich won every championship he could in bobsledding this season. The German great is now a world champion for the 16th time, capping off his seventh four-man world title Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg on the final day of the international bobsled season.
Elana Meyers Taylor, Kaillie Humphries take bobsled returns to world champs in Lake Placid
Meyers Taylor, plus fellow American Kaysha Love and Australian Bree Walker combined to win the last four World Cup monobob races. Meyers Taylor’s triumphs on Jan. 24 and 25 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, marked her first World Cup victories since having Noah.
Friedrich leads 4-man world bobsled title race as weather takes its toll on Lake Placid track
Friedrich — a 15-time world champion, with nine two-man golds and four two-man golds on his resume along with two more Olympic golds in both disciplines — was going to be the leader anyway. His one-run time is 54.23 seconds, with Lochner (54.52) second and Britain's Brad Hall (54.54) third.
Strength and skill on display at Bobsled & Skeleton World Champs in Lake Placid
Lake Placid is hosting the World Championships for bobsled and skeleton. Races started last weekend and continue on Friday and Saturday.
Francesco Friedrich adds to bobsled legend with another World Championships sweep
German Francesco Friedrich won a record-extending 16th men's bobsled world title, while Laura Nolte led a German medals sweep of the two-woman event to end the World Championships in Lake Placid, New York.
Friedrich leads 4-man world bobsled title race
Germany’s Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsled title. And that was about the only predictable development in the four-man world championship race that started Friday at Mount Van Hoevenberg.
Kaysha Love wins women's monobob world championship at Lake Placid
Barely two years ago, Kaysha Love was finishing somewhere around last place in what would best be described as minor bobsled races. She’s now the world monobob champion. Love’s meteoric rise to the top of her sport is now complete,
Friedrich wins 16th bobsleigh world title, taking 4-man in Lake Placid
Germany's Francesco Friedrich is now a world champion for the 16th time, capping off his seventh four-man world title Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., on the final day of the international bobsleigh season.
Adirondack-style feijoada: Brazilian bobsled team gets taste of home country in Saranac Lake
Members of the Brazilian bobsled team, in town for the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid, filled Fiddlehead Bistro on Wednesday for a taste of home. Local metalworker Dan King and Fiddlehead ...
Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt
Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world ...
Del Duca finishes fourth in 4-man competition at Bobsled World Championships
Heat 4 saw Del Duca's fastest start time at 5 seconds flat. The top American team ended with a time of 55.55, but were able to move ahead of one of the German teams for a 4th place finish overall. Del ...
Partnership with Pyeongchang: Lake Placid, Pyeongchang pledge ‘respect, unity and collaboration’
LAKE PLACID — Pyeongchang, Korea joined the ranks of former Olympic cities to sign an official partnership with Lake Placid this weekend during the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation World ...
It's not just Jamaica with a 'Cool Runnings' story. There are sliders from all over the world now
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — It doesn’t snow in Jamaica. Or Malta. Or Ghana. There’s been a maybe dusting reported on rare occasions in parts of Thailand and Malaysia. And nobody thinks of Spain, Colombia ...
This private college near Lake Placid could house Olympic sliding athletes
As Lake Placid awaits word on the Milano Cortina sliding track, officials have started planning in case the small village is ...