As Lake Placid awaits word on the Milano Cortina sliding track, officials have started planning in case the small village is asked to host 170 athletes in 2026

If Lake Placid is the site, it would be an obvious edge for American sliders since they know their home track better than anyone else. Other tracks closer to Italy — like ones in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands and France — would come with serious home-ice advantages for other countries.

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,

Three years ago, converted track sprinter Kaysha Love became an Olympian as a brakewoman in the back of a bobsled. Now she's a world champion driver. Love won the monobob at the World Championships in Lake Placid,