The James C Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink is an outdoor artificial ice track for speedskating in Lake Placid, New York, United States (US).

During the time between the two Olympics events, the rink hosted Lake Placid High School football games.

Besides "speed drills", the arena was also used for the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, the starting- and end-point for cross-country exercises and dog racing (demonstration branch), and ice hockey matches.

[2] Two weeks after the 1932 Olympics, the 1932 World Allround Speed Skating Championship was held at the rink and the venue was subsequently reused for other sports.

The city was awarded the 1980 Winter Olympics in October 1974,[3] at a time when an artificial ice track was being constructed (which opened in late-fall 1977).