Around the world, there are perhaps 800 skeleton racers, known as sliders. In this country, the number is below 200. LeaAnn Parsley, a 33-year-old firefighter who is one of two women representing ...

A toxicology report provided to USA Bobsled & Skeleton this summer showed Holcomb ... Valdes said he and other sliders on the team believe Holcomb’s death was a tragic accident.

Irish skeleton slider Sean Greenwood went airborne after a crash at the Olympics, but was somehow able to continue his run after a quick recovery. He was traveling at 75 mph, so it all happened in ...

Take a look at some of the best helmets skeleton sliders have brought to the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Akwasi Frimpong of Ghana Frimpong is the only athlete representing Ghana at ...

It takes a lot of courage to compete in Skeleton at the Olympics because it can go wrong so fast. Sliding head first down an icy chute at incredible speeds isn't the safest thing mankind ever came ...

Katie Tannenbaum, a skeleton slider from the U.S. Virgin Islands, struck a broom at high speed in a World Cup run in Igls, Austria, on Friday. Tannenbaum’s helmet collided with the broom while she was ...

The tracks are typically around a mile long, and sliders usually blast through them in about a minute. (Google a video of skeleton, and you may find yourself holding onto your chair.) A recent ...

After completing his third run in the men's skeleton event at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre on Friday night the 23-year-old briefly flashed a paper sign reading "NO WAR IN UKRAINE", he said ...

The California native competes in skeleton for the U.S. Virgin Islands ... She thought she qualified for the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, but sliders from other nations were chosen instead to fill ...

But watching skeleton sliders on TV, it's immediately apparent that a) the athletes go really fast, b) this sport looks really dangerous, and c) this also looks really, really cool. We're sure you ...