Ukrainian skeleton sled racing athlete Vladyslav Herskevych drew attention to his sport after being disqualified for wearing a controversial helmet at the Winter Olympics. The sport of skeleton sled ...

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, ...

Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, 3,500 people have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILAN — A Ukrainian skeleton athlete was barred from competing at the Winter Olympics just hours before his race on Thursday, after he refused to remove a helmet honoring compatriots killed in ...

Weston, the men’s gold medalist on Saturday, saw his teammate Tabitha Stoecker lose time at the end of her run and proceeded to use his sheer on-track excellence to claw back several tenths of a ...

Matt Weston leads the men's skeleton at the halfway stage of the competition at the Winter Olympics as he aims to win Team GB's first gold medal of the Games. Weston set a track record at ...

First British man to win individual winter gold since 1980 And on the seventh day, Great Britain finally won their first medal of these Olympics. At nine o’clock on Friday night Matt Weston, the man ...