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 ...

Setback for Team GB’s Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt Great Britain’s skeleton team have been banned from wearing its new aerodynamic helmets at the Winter Olympics after the court of arbitration for ...

The Winter Olympics feature a variety of sledding sports. Two of the most well known are bobsled and luge. And then there's skeleton. From the name to the sport itself, skeleton is a bit more of an ...

Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for “refusing to adhere” to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athlete expression guidelines ...

Athletes at the Olympics dive in headfirst for a chance at gold. That's quite literal when it comes to skeleton. The discipline, which started in 1887, features athletes sliding down an ice track face ...

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, ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 4 - British officials have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a ban on a new helmet design for skeleton athletes that the sport's governing body has ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. U.S. skeleton athlete Mystique Ro seeks to become just the second American woman to earn an Olympic medal in the ...

With the 2026 Winter Olympics officially starting Friday afternoon, Feb. 6, fans have about a month's worth of intense competition ahead, including skiing, ice skating, curling and sports that may be ...

The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says he is ready to be disqualified on Thursday because he does not want to betray his country’s dead athletes. In what is likely to be an ...