CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Province of Belluno — Sliding face-first on an icy track at speeds up to 80 mph looks dangerous and terrifying. But that's what Olympic skeleton athletes choose to do, run after run ...

Everyone's favorite Olympic hype man, Flavor Flav, has a need for speed. On Monday, the New York native shared photos and a video of himself trying skeleton before making a special announcement about ...

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The Ukrainian skeleton Olympian cut from competition at the Milan Cortina Games because of his helmet remembering fellow athletes killed in the war with Russia has received a medal of a different kind ...

Venom was going for gold. The Marvel comic book character wasn’t competing in the Olympics, of course, but it sure looked like he was. His white eyes and sharp teeth glided down the ice at ...

Meylemans, 29, and Silveira, 31, made their 2026 Olympic debuts Friday in the first two heats of women's skeleton. Meylemans sits in eighth place, 0.84 seconds off the lead, while Silveira is in 12th, ...

A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrator has denied Vladyslav Heraskevych’s appeal and the Ukrainian skeleton rider will not be reinstated to compete in the Olympics wearing what he has ...

Austin Florian, a skeleton racer from Southington, finished the first two heats of Olympic competition in 13th place with a combined time of 1:54.53 at Cortina Sliding Center in Italy Thursday.

Southington native and Olympic skeleton racer Austin Florian set a new start record in the men's skeleton competition Thursday morning. During his second run, Florian was the fastest to accelerate, ...

Winter Olympics organizers barred Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing in the Milan Cortino games after he insisted on wearing a helmet featuring Ukrainian athletes killed ...

Uncovering how athletes steer skeleton sled's at the Olympics. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes. The whole body shimmy, yes. I've gone up to eighty three, but some people can go a little bit more.

MILAN — A Ukrainian skeleton athlete was barred from competing at the Winter Olympics just hours before his race on Thursday, after he refused to remove a helmet honoring compatriots killed in ...