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 ...

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he ...

Skeleton athletes are basically a hybrid between a weight-lifter and a sprinter,” says Britain’s 28-year-old gold medalist ...

In many ways, skeleton is a sport of subtlety: Lifting one's shoulder half an inch or slightly shifting weight from one side of the hip to the other can determine the 0.31-second difference that ...

With the 2026 Winter Olympics underway, here's a guide on the high-speed sledding sports: luge, skeleton and bobsleigh.

The Sporting News brings you a full explainer of skeleton at the Olympics and what you should know as a viewer.

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 ...