Downward-facing skeleton riders do the same. Whether in a team of two or four, bobsled riders stay tucked tightly inside the sled to reduce the area available for air to smash into. Any body ...

Mystique Ro seems to know the Mount Van Hoevenberg sliding track better than anyone. The 30-year-old skeleton slider from ...

Behind every international sporting competition is an army of local volunteers working behind the scenes to make it happen.

Two luge athletes have died at the Olympic Games since 1964 – more than in any other Olympic events. About 20 skeleton and bobsled athletes have died in training accidents and during competitions ...

Team USA's 32-year-old Idahoan Andrew Blaser, in his first Olympics, finished 21st. The only American competing in men's skeleton, he did not advance to the fourth heat. One of the few openly gay ...

A skeleton competitor on the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland in 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) Imagine leaping onto a sled and plummeting head-first down a steep ...

IBSF Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., wrapped up last weekend with U.S. athletes on the podium.

It’s the French word for “sled.” Some thought the sled looked like a skeleton and it’s said that’s how the sport got its name. But others think the term skeleton comes from people ...