A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team.

While the focus is rightfully on the countdown to Paris, some interesting news regarding the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy, has surfaced in the past couple of months.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued an alert for a 17-year-old girl missing out of Lake Placid and considered endangered.

An apparent mortgage account mix-up with the DEO’s Homeowner Assistance Fund nearly forced a single mother and her family out of their Lake Placid, Florida home.

The Winter Olympics are about to begin. This week on Forecasting Change we look at the warming in the Winter Olympic locations in the last 50 years. Over that period, the 19 different host cities have warmed 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit. That is about three times the global average!

Three years after Andrew Weibrecht retired from the U.S. Ski team, the two-time Winter Olympic medalist is back on his skis for a unique fundraising event.

USABS already has gotten dozens of serious candidates involved, through Zoom video conferences with coaches and established athletes and past bobsled and skeleton Olympians. “COVID or no COVID, we’ve got to be thinking about ways that we can be more efficient and really get a greater reach,” McGuire said. Dionne said it’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone who comes into the program this fall could still find themselves on the 2022 U.S. Olympic bobsled team. And this season, it's unclear how much U.S. national team athletes will be overseas because of the pandemic. “And we’re also trying to fill the pipeline for bobsled and skeleton drivers more than anything.

This season’s bobsled and skeleton world championships were awarded to Altenberg, Germany, and moved out of Lake Placid, New York, on Tuesday because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and potential travel complications. The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said it made the move “to protect the health of athletes and spectators across the globe.” Lake Placid will be awarded the 2025 world championships instead. The IBSF plans to release the updated schedule for the entire bobsled and skeleton season, including World Cup races, later Tuesday. Most of the athletes in the world championships would be coming from Europe. Altenberg played host to bobsled and skeleton worlds this past season as well; Germany won gold medals in men’s skeleton, women’s skeleton, two-man bobsled and four-man bobsled.

MARION COUNTY – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said an 84-year-old man that went missing Saturday afternoon has been found. Deputies were searching for David Walsh, who was last seen on surveillance video at a Publix in Lake Placid on Saturday before being located Sunday. Walsh, who was wearing a blue polo shirt, blue-green dress pants and white tennis shoes, suffers from dementia.