America's kids arrived in Lake Placid as unknown, uncelebrated collegians who seemed hopelessly overmatched. In a Madison Square Garden tuneup a few days before the Olympic flame was lit, the ...

Scott Hamilton gets goosebumps at the mention of Lake Placid. He was a 21-year-old Olympic newcomer and sitting in a darkened theater when he felt a tap on his shoulder. "Halfway through the movie ...

Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands ...

Lake Placid was picked as the just-in-case backup track last year, and with the Olympics less than a year away a decision could be looming on whether the Adirondack village will be called to serve ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority announced a line-up of events celebrating the 45th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, a milestone that holds ...

Mark Wells, the last player added to the 1980 United States hockey team that became known as the famed "Miracle on Ice" gang at the Lake Placid Olympics, has died. He was 66. The "Miracle on Ice ...

United States performed forgotten 'Miracle on Ice' 64 years ago 1960 team defied long odds to win Olympic gold for 1st time, 20 years before Lake Placid ...

This was the biggest day of all at the Lake Placid Winter Games, and one of the biggest in Olympics history—the day Al Michaels made perhaps the most famous call in sports history: “Do you ...

This postcard of Lake Placid's 1932 Olympic Arena was taken by local photographer Grover Cleveland in June 1941. (Editor’s note: This story is part of an “Olympic Legacy” series to celebrate the 90th ...

Sports ‘The most famous hockey game ever played’: The 1980 Miracle on Ice at the Lake Placid Olympics Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 6:00 a.m.

The first Olympics ever to use this weather surrogate were the Lake Placid Games of 1980, amid a fabled snow drought in an otherwise snowy locale.