Learn how Olympic skeleton competition works — from the structure of heats and timing rules to how medal winners are determined across men’s and women’s events at the Winter Games of Milan Cortina 2026.

With the 2026 Winter Olympics underway, here's a guide on the high-speed sledding sports: luge, skeleton and bobsleigh.

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 ...

The British skeleton team appeal after their new helmets for the Winter Olympics are ruled unsafe.

Team Canada has been found to have manipulated North American Cup points to deny USA's Katie Uhlaender Milan Cortina Olympics qualification for skeleton competition.

Kelly Curtis '12, a Springfield College alum will compete for Team USA in the Women's Skeleton competition at the Olympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.

Great Britain have lost their appeal against a ban on new helmets they had hoped to use in the Olympic skeleton competition in Cortina next week.

Ilia Malinin overcame a stumble to post Team USA's best score in men's singles. It was enough to lead the Americans to gold.