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.

Kaysha Love of the U.S. is the leader with one run left in the women's monobob world championship at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Love — bidding for her first world title — has a three-run time of 2 minutes,

Barely two years ago, Kaysha Love was finishing somewhere around last place in what would best be described as minor bobsled races.