Lake Placid (pps) Poland’s Ewelina Staszulonek, the Canadians Jorgen Krause and Grant Albrecht/Eric Pothier took the victories at the Nations Cup at Lake Placid. Ewelina Staszulonek won in 44,909 seconds followed by USA’s Brenna Margol (44,944) and Canada’s Alex Gough (45,220). In double’s race Albrecht/Pothier (44,811) won in front of Japan’s Hayashibe/Toshiro and Radu/Lazarescu (ROM). Canada’s Champion Jorgen Krause (56,112) captured the victory in men’s race followed by Japan’s Takahisa Oguchi and Kaspars Dumpis from Latvia. .