Figure skating has always had an important home in Lake Placid. Early
on, the Sno Birds popularized this summer retreat, and Melville and
Godfrey Dewey won the campaign for the 1932 Winter Olympics. The Skating
Club of Lake Placid was formed, and after 1932, famous skaters trained
here with legendary coach Gus Lussi. When Lake Placid again hosted the
Olympics in 1980, skating dominated, with state-of-the-art facilities
that have continued to be used by stars like Dorothy Hamill and Sarah
Hughes, and helped give rise to Scott Hamilton's Stars on Ice. For more
than one hundred years, the Lake Placid community has worked together to
support figure skating and skaters in this quiet Adirondack village.
Local expert Christie Sausa tells this exciting story.