There is a certain brand of madness reserved for those who choose to hurtle down a winding corridor of jagged ice with nothing but a thin sheet of fiberglass between ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, 3,500 people have ...

Sliding face-first on an icy track at speeds up to 80 mph looks dangerous and terrifying. But that's what Olympic skeleton athletes choose to do, run after run. And since there's very little to ...

Matt Weston has won the first Team GB medal of the Winter Olympics with a gold in the men's skeleton. Weston, the current skeleton world champion, had the overnight lead, and produced a track record ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych took his case to sport's highest court on Friday, detailing the reasons why he wanted to race at the Milan Cortina Olympics ...

For a multitude of reasons, skeleton helmet art is making waves on social media. Just take this SportsCenter post about the United States' Austin Florian, which has over 2.5 million views and counting ...

Southington native and Olympic skeleton racer Austin Florian set a new start record in the men's skeleton competition Thursday morning. During his second run, Florian was the fastest to accelerate, ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics, held in Northern Italy in the cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, are here. If you're tuning into the action this February, odds are you're going to see some bobsled, luge ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Pocatello native Andy Whittier was as close to making the U.S. Olympic Team as you can get without procuring a ticket to Italy. Whittier, a former Pocatello High School and Idaho ...

The Team GB skeleton helmets will remain banned at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal against the ruling from the British ...