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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Britain's Matt Weston is the reigning world champion and considered a heavy favorite in the event. Weston topped the second, third and fourth training runs before opting out of the final two ...

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 ...

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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 ...