Skeleton offers a high‑adrenaline blend of speed, precision and sheer courage as athletes hurtle head‑first toward victory. Athletes race down an ice track lying on a small, flat sled, with their face ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, headfirst, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender is pressing forward in her fight for a sixth Olympic berth, saying Saturday that she is appealing a decision by international officials that seemed to cost her a ...

In her fourth Olympic games, Austria's Janine Flock has captured that elusive first medal after winning the women's skeleton event. She finished the four-heat event with a total time of 3:49.02, 0.30 ...

Canadian skeleton coach Joe Cecchini defended his controversial withdrawal from Olympic qualifier that blocked Katie ...

The Ukrainian skeleton Olympian cut from competition at the Milan Cortina Games because of his helmet remembering fellow athletes killed in the war with Russia has received a medal of a different kind ...

Chasing hundredths of a second on the track can lead to years of brain fog, says a group of retired athletes who this week ...

The U.S. Olympic women's bobsled and skeleton racers spent this week going through their final preparations in advance of arrivals this weekend at the Milan Cortina Games. They were running, lifting ...

Vladyslav Heraskevych was shunned by the Olympics, then invited to the United Nations. He never expected that would happen.