Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ...

Katie Uhlaendar may not be a household name, but she's starred in each Winter Olympics for the past 16 years. Thursday night, the 37-year-old veteran will slide into her fifth Games. By competing in ...

Skeleton is a high‑speed winter sliding sport where individual athletes race head‑first and face‑down on a specially designed sled along a precisely engineered ice track. The process begins with a ...

After two heats of men's skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics, a clear gold medal favorite has emerged: Germany's Christopher Grotheer. He established a big lead with his first run, which lasted a ...

It’s been in the Olympics since 1928, but took two long hiatuses and returned to the program in 2002.