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With the 2006-2007 season behind them USA Luge team members earned three medals at the Senior & Junior World Championships and several more at the World Challenge Cup levels. In the upcoming 2007-2008 season Lake Placid will host the first World Cup of the season in November and the Junior World Championships in January and February 2008.

Since the late 1800s Lake Placid has been a tourism hotspot, home to the Winter Olympics, Ironman USA and the Goodwill Games. Lake Placid's beautiful mountains, lakes and streams help attract over 1.8 million visitors yearly to this northeast corner of New York State. The 1932 and 1980 Olympic facilities, Santa's Workshop, Highfalls Gorge, and other destinations make this area a popular family vacation spot.

At the 1932 Winter Olympic games, Jack Shea from Lake Placid became the first athlete to win two gold medals at the same Olympics. Shea won the medals in speed skating. During the 1980 games the U.S. Hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in what is often referred to as "The Miracle on Ice."

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