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 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 ...

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 ...

Meylemans, 29, and Silveira, 31, made their 2026 Olympic debuts Friday in the first two heats of women's skeleton. Meylemans sits in eighth place, 0.84 seconds off the lead, while Silveira is in 12th, ...

Dan Barefoot, 35, grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and earned a degree at Penn State University in Landscape Architecture.In 2016, Barefoot was working for an engineering firm located in Florida ...

A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrator has denied Vladyslav Heraskevych’s appeal and the Ukrainian skeleton rider will not be reinstated to compete in the Olympics wearing what he has ...

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 ...

British sledder has high hopes for new mixed team event ‘We’re going to be one of the strongest sets of teams’ Matt Weston celebrated becoming the first British athlete to win a gold medal at these ...

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 ...

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 -- Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender at the Milan Cortina Games, was barred from racing Thursday after refusing a last-minute plea ...

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 ...