Lake Placid may not be ‘plan B’ for long [Video]

In December, the Olympic Regional Development Authority announced Lake Placid’s Mount Van Hoevenberg had been chosen as the official “plan B” site for sliding events during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy if track updates aren’t completed in time. Now, as climate reports indicate Lake Placid may be one of the last remaining communities still able to host winter sports competitions, it’s possible more events could come back to New York within the next few decades. It wouldn’t be the first time an event was held outside of a host city. This past summer, surfing for the Paris Games was held 9,000 miles away in Tahiti. However, with a rise in global temperatures, some studies have indicated that only a handful of former host cities would still be viable to hold the games by 2050. Lake Placid is one of them. According to a 2018 study from the University of …