Winter Olympics: What is skeleton and how does it work? - Everything you need to know about Britain’s most successful winter sport

South Korea claimed two stunning medals in sliding sports on home soil at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Yun Sung-bin captured the men's skeleton title for the country's first Olympic medal in any sliding event,

Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands and Matt Weston of Great Britain will go into the Milan Cortina Games as reigning world champions in skeleton. Mystique Ro goes into the Olympic season as the first American to win a world championships medal in skeleton ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a helmet. Daly laughed. “If I knew that, I probably ...

Mystique Ro, a Nokesville native who competed in track and field at Queens University of Charlotte, was invited to a rookie camp in 2016 and was told she “was a little small for bobsled” and should try skeleton. Ro graduated from Brentsville District ...

As Olympic athletes competing in skeleton have to keep their heads down, a way to keep creativity, interest and fun high has been with creative helmet designs. Some, like Ander Mirambell of Spain, slid down the ice with a laser-inspired helmet design.

Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.