I have to be honest. I was a bit confused when I heard there would be a combine for the US Bobsled and Skeleton teams this ...

When you hear the word skeleton -- a sport is probably the last thing to cross your mind. But it is indeed an interesting name for a rather interesting sport. Skeleton made it's Olympic debut in ...

Before turning an obsession-like focus onto skeleton, Curtis used to compete in the related sport of bobsled. In 2013, during a break at graduate school and while training with her bobsled team ...

The skeleton event highlights one of the 15 sports taking place in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but for many fans tuning in to the action in Beijing, the sport has sparked some questions.

A run in skeleton — a relatively new Olympic sport that, after featuring in the 1928 and 1948 games, hibernated for almost six decades before re-emerging in 2002 — begins with a burst of ...

It’s hard to imagine a more ominous name for a sport than skeleton. So what is behind the puzzling title? One-hundred forty years of history. Similar to its sledding sisters, luge and ...

but why is a sport where competitors slide headfirst down an icy track called skeleton? According to the official website for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the name originated in the 1800s in St ...

Or the speeds produced by skiers, lugers and skeleton racers. Make no mistake, however. What athletes in several Winter Olympic sports do could kill them. No hyperbole, no exaggeration.