The skeleton event highlights one of the 15 sports taking place in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but for many fans tuning in to the action in Beijing, the sport has sparked some questions.

but why is a sport where competitors slide headfirst down an icy track called skeleton? According to the official website for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the name originated in the 1800s in St ...

When you hear the word skeleton -- a sport is probably the last thing to cross your mind. But it is indeed an interesting name for a rather interesting sport. Skeleton made it's Olympic debut in ...

Skeleton is an apt name for what looks like the most terrifying Winter Olympics event. But despite the confusing name, the sport is pretty simple: Racers take a running start, and then hurtle down ...

Skeleton has a particularly interesting history when it comes to the Olympics. Per NBC Olympics, St. Moritz, Switzerland is the accepted birthplace of the sport, and it was originally called "cresta." ...

Before turning an obsession-like focus onto skeleton, Curtis used to compete in the related sport of bobsled. In 2013, during a break at graduate school and while training with her bobsled team ...

More than 90 current and retired Canadian bobsled and skeleton athletes are renewing their call for action from federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to help clean up what they say is a toxic ...

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has signed an agreement to join Abuse-Free Sport, the new federal program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport in Canada. Effective no later than Jan. 17 ...