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 ...

After four long years, the Winter Olympics are coming back. From the mountains to the ice to the track, it's been a while ...

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 ...

Team USA held a combine in St. Louis at the Parisi Speed School. The workouts featured a 40-yard sprint, frog jump, 10-yard ...

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 ...

Former Winter Olympics skeleton bronze medallist Laura Deas has announced her retirement from the sport. The 36-year-old Wrexham-born competitor's career highlight came at the 2018 Pyeongchang ...

Because the thing about our sport, really ... in St Moritz earlier in 2023. Her Olympic bronze medal continued Team GB’s outstanding record in the skeleton since the women’s event was added ...

Before the Olympics, the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation and International ... Varnier said it is important that the sliding sports be held in Cortina to improve the experience ...

The newest Winter Olympic sport will debut in Milan Cortina with ... Bobsled, luge and skeleton are all similar sliding sports, but they have their differences. Beyond the various sled types ...