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.

The first skeleton track was built in 1884 by Swiss ... its own federation before appearing in the 1928 Olympics in the sport’s birthplace -- St. Moritz. It returned to the Olympics twenty ...

BEIJING, China — The names of many Olympic sports are self-explanatory, but why is a sport where competitors slide headfirst down an icy track called skeleton? According to the official website ...

Winter Olympics will be in Italy next February. Darryl Payne, Jr. hopes to make the roster for the USA Skeleton team. "It's a ...

Kelly Curtis is quick to acknowledge this sport is "crazy ... to represent the U.S. at the Olympics in skeleton. The 33-year-old is also the only member of the U.S. Air Force at this year's ...

Curtis remembers the scene at the 2014 Olympics when U.S. skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus ... Humphries — one of the most driven athletes in the sport — says the challenge just of getting ...

Jared Firestone gets a running start on the skeleton. (credit: DAVID ZIMAND) These are dangerous sports. Two luge athletes have died at the Olympic Games since 1964 – more than in any other ...

Winter Olympics will take place in February in Italy. Darryl Payne, Jr. hopes to make the roster for the USA Skeleton team ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 2026 Winter Olympics will be in Italy next February. Darryl Payne, Jr. hopes to make the roster for the USA Skeleton team. “It’s a winter sport similar to boblsed where ...