Tests are underway at Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track. Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari was the first ...

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 ...

She began sliding internationally in skeleton in 2017, debuted on the top-level World ... Weston has won two of the three world titles since placing a disappointing 15th at the 2022 Olympics. He ...

Tim Reynolds delivered two exclusive stories from the bobsled and skeleton world championships in Lake Placid, New York, ...

was an alternate on the Canadian team for the 2022 Olympics yet never so much as made the trip to Beijing. She then spent a year with the American squad after members of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Matt Weston finished 15th in men's skeleton at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, something he considered wildly disappointing. He's been the best in the world ever since.

For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two years ago and now ...

It’s not new for moms to be competing as sliders. Curtis remembers the scene at the 2014 Olympics when U.S. skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus-Pace — then a mother of two — won a silver medal in ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two ...

NEW YORK - Trailblazing Ghanaian skeleton athlete Akwasi Frimpong hopes to open doors for more Africans in winter sports, as he eyes one last trip to the Olympics next year before calling time on ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- The U.S. won the mixed skeleton world championship for the first time Saturday night, after not even medaling in the first four editions of the event. The team of Austin ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Emily Sweeney is certain of having a home Olympics next winter. The USA Luge veteran is marrying fellow luge athlete Dominik Fischnaller later this year. He’s from Italy.