Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ...

CESANA PARIOL, Italy ” Skeleton racing in the Olympics is a lot more low-key than say, downhill. So not many of the thousands of people attending the Torino Games are aware of the fact that America’s ...

There’s no real way to describe what it’s like to be standing less than ten feet away from an icy track and having a bobsled go by you at 80 miles an hour. You stand there with your cell phone ready.

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – Supermom did it. Noelle Pikus-Pace, the mother of two who restarted her skeleton racing career after having a miscarriage in 2012, finished second in Friday’s final to win ...

Skeleton is a high‑speed winter sliding sport where individual athletes race head‑first and face‑down on a specially designed sled along a precisely engineered ice track. The process begins with a ...

For this first episode of In The Know: Extreme Lengths, we met with Olympian Anthony Watson, who, following a serious knee injury that ended his track and field career, never thought he'd have a ...

UPDATE: Bend’s Biancha Emery is now ranked 11th in the world for youth women’s skeleton after Wednesday’s race in Pyeongchang. The top 19 youth skeleton racers qualify for the Youth Olympic Games next ...

There is a level of intense concentration and calm as Pocatello native Andy Whittier tears down a frozen track accelerating to speeds of over 80 mph with his face centimeters from the ice.

Learn about the risks and how to survive skeleton racing.