Flying face-first down an icy chute at speeds of up to 150km/h: skeleton certainly isn’t for the faint of heart. The death-defying Olympic sport also happens to be Team GB’s most successful, with ...

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 ...

Double Olympic skeleton champion Matt Weston is one of the most articulate athletes you could ever meet but, even five days on from becoming the only Briton to win two medals at the same Winter ...

After making its first Olympic appearance in the 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, skeleton became a permanent Olympic fixture with both men's and women's events in 2002. A new mixed team ...

When it comes to the Olympics, athletes can slide in different styles. There are three sliding sports as part of the Winter Olympic program: bobsled, luge and skeleton. Each discipline involves ...

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 ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Province of Belluno — The first-ever skeleton mixed team event had a surprising performance from the Americans. Americans Mystique Ro and Austin Florian did not medal, but they set ...

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

Mystique Ro used to dream of being on the U.S. Olympic track team. Now, she's a U.S. medal hope in skeleton. Robert Michael / dpa via Associated Press To hear Mystique Ro talk about the first time she ...