Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

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 ...

Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, 3,500 people have ...

There is a certain brand of madness reserved for those who choose to hurtle down a winding corridor of jagged ice with nothing but a thin sheet of fiberglass between ...

For those not familiar with the sport of skeleton, where the solo sledder lies flat on their stomach, head first, Akwasi Frimpong sums it up: "You're on a cookie sheet sled and it's like 'dude, good ...

British sledder has high hopes for new mixed team event ‘We’re going to be one of the strongest sets of teams’ Matt Weston celebrated becoming the first British athlete to win a gold medal at these ...

Matt Weston has won the first Team GB medal of the Winter Olympics with a gold in the men's skeleton. Weston, the current skeleton world champion, had the overnight lead, and produced a track record ...

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, ...

'Matt Weston, take a bow!' - Team GB win first medal with men's skeleton gold No ice track, and yet the most successful nation in Olympic skeleton history. Make it make sense. But as Matt Weston won ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Matt Weston doesn't always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt -- he's the best skeleton racer ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- This time, Janine Flock finished the job. And a gold medal finally sways from her neck. Flock -- the Austrian slider who came into these Milan Cortina Games winless in 16 ...