While all students in the United States had a day off from school on 16 January for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lake Placid Elementary School students are being dismissed all week. Instead of sitting in class, these youngsters are involved as spectators on site at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games – […]
For the second consecutive day, Japan’s Ryo Hirose and Finland’s Hilla Niemela topped the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games cross country skiing podium at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Winners of the men’s 10km and women’s 5km individual classic events on Tuesday, Hirose and Niemela dominated the pursuit races on the same distances on Wednesday, […]
Cross country skiing continued on Tuesday at Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games with the women’s 5km and men’s 10km individual classic races. Those events present hard challenges as the races are long enough to require strength and endurance, while also, of course, demanding that competitors ski fast. Spectators had to wait a long […]
“Watching that big screen in the stadium and seeing him getting that gap on the last uphill – I was a little giddy with excitement.” Evan Nichols (picture below) was waiting at the finish line with open arms, ready to embrace his teammate Niklas Malacinski (main picture above), who was pulling an incredible all-out performance […]
Less than 24 hours after claiming bronze in the alpine combined on her birthday, Leonie Flötgen of Germany secured a second medal at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games on Tuesday, only this time in the women’s giant slalom… and in the brightest colour of all! Flötgen won the women’s giant slalom at […]
It was a spectacular day at Gore Mountain on Monday for the ski cross competition of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. Following qualification and semifinal rounds, Lin Nakanishi of Japan and Nikola Fricova of Slovakia quickly broke away in the four-racer women’s final, with Nakanishi prevailing in the end. Elizabeth Filiatrault of […]
On Monday, on the second day of long track speed skating at the 2023 FISU World University Games, the Olympic legend’s track record in the men’s 5,000-metre, which had stood since his quintuple gold-medal performance in 1980, was finally broken at the James C. Sheffield Oval. Twice. Italy’s Riccardo Lorello was the first skater to […]
The Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games ski jumping competition kicked off on Monday with the men’s and women’s normal hill individual events at the Olympic Jumping Complex. On the men’s side, Kazakhstan’s Danil Vassilyev triumphed thanks to a two-round total of 257.3 points, ahead of Austrian teammates Maximilian Lienher (251.4) and Timon Pascal […]
