Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - On the eve of his country's historic election, Faisal Ghazi Faisal broke the one-minute mark in the America's Cup skeleton race yesterday, taking a major step toward his dream of being the first Iraqi Winter Olympian. "I didn't expect that," said a beaming Faisal, surrounded by well-wishers and wrapped in the red, green and white Iraq flag. "It just felt great. I couldn't believe it when I saw 59. I was checking if that was really my time. I was asking around, `Was that really mine?

A look at how host countries have fared in total medals in the Winter Olympics, with increase over previous games and the medal leaders for those games, starting in 1960: Year ........... Host site ........Host country/ .................Medals..........Change .............................................Medal leader 1960 ...........Squaw Valley .....United States.......................10 ...........+3 ..............................................Soviet Union .......................

Lake Placid, N.Y. -- Villains in American sport date back at least 100 years when scoundrels such as Ty Cobb roamed the basepaths as though hunting season had just begun. Later, we had the Raiders, the Pistons, the hockey goon and just about any Soviet athlete during the Cold War. s blog at baltimoresun.com/maeseblog Point after -- Rick Maese The luge looks like a lot of fun, doesn't it? It's like when you were younger and you went down a twisty slide at the park. Only this slide is made of ice. And it's highly probable that you'll suffer permanent injury.

On July 18, 2004 CATHERINE H. BEATTY (nee Riley), beloved wife of the late Edmund J. Beatty; devoted mother of Gerald A. Beatty; loving grandmother of Anthony and Christopher Beatty and Sandra Wagner; great grandmother Kelly Beatty. A Catholic Prayer service will be held at Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, on Wednesday 11 A.M. Visiting hours on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.away after a long illness. Born in Leominster, MA, January 17, 1925, died July 18, 2004.

The world-class ice dancer accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl surrendered himself to New York State Police and was released on $50,000 bond, according to his attorney. Genrikh Sretenski, 50, a Russian-born Olympic competitor who has trained Olympic skaters, appeared in New York Friday morning and was arraigned on sex abuse and related charges stemming from sexual abuse allegations from a July 2011 incident in Lake Placid. The indictment lists the victim at 16-years-old at the time of the alleged abuse.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - An apparent drunken-driving accident Monday afternoon ended what was expected to be one of the feel-good stories of the Winter Olympics. Jack Shea, who won two gold medals in speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics, died early yesterday from injuries he suffered in a car accident less than a mile from his home. As the senior member of three generations of Winter Olympians - a first - the 91-year-old had become a media star in his hometown, the scene of his athletic triumph.

Amanda Agnew isn't quite old enough to get a driver's license, but she is comfortable moving 70 mph.All she needs is a small sled and an icy track.The Aberdeen High School sophomore is one of the United States' brightest young stars in luge.A member of the U.S. Junior National Luge Team that trains from Latvia to Lake Placid, Agnew lies on a flat sled and races down slick, winding tracks for much of the fall and winter.At speeds of up to 70 mph, it only takes her about 42 seconds to reach the bottom of a 1,200-meter run. She goes so fast even she doesn't look where she's going, but not because she's afraid.

AS A NOTED FILM critic, I assume that you are eager to read my impressions of "Eyes Wide Shut," the controversial much-discussed final film in the "oeuvre" of Stanley Kubrick, or, as he was known to those of us who considered him a close personal friend before he died, "Stan."What is one to make of "Eyes Wide Shut"? Is this the "chef doeuvre," the "piece de resistance," if you will, of this legendary cinematic "auteur"? Does it possess the penultimate exigency, the insouciant "escargot," the "frisson de voiture" of Stan's earlier work?

Two dozen spectators dressed for arctic exploration stand and shiver on Mount Van Hoevenberg on the outskirts of Lake Placid, N.Y. Snow drops from the slate gray sky. The temperature dips to single digits.The fans listen for the distant thunder that turns into a winter storm. They watch for the flash of color and light that whips off an icy curve at 80 mph.They wait for one of their own.Duncan Kennedy comes sliding down the track, a tumbling human ice cube dropping into a frozen drink. He lies rigid on a sled that is part seat, part rocket.

YOU RECALL, no doubt, the piece here three Sundays ago about Ryan Harrigan, the 13-year-old soap-box car racer waiting to hear if he'll be selected for the next national level of training in luge - competitive sledding. But if someone asked what a columnist on amateur athletics in Howard County, Md., would never write about, luge would be right there. Ditto bobsledding. Today, meet Courtney Zgraggen, Ellicott City resident since August, Mount Hebron High School freshman, JV soccer goalkeeper, bobsled driver.