CESANA PARIOL, Italy ” Skeleton racing in the Olympics is a lot more low-key than say, downhill. So not many of the thousands of people attending the Torino Games are aware of the fact that America’s ...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – Supermom did it. Noelle Pikus-Pace, the mother of two who restarted her skeleton racing career after having a miscarriage in 2012, finished second in Friday’s final to win ...

There’s no real way to describe what it’s like to be standing less than ten feet away from an icy track and having a bobsled go by you at 80 miles an hour. You stand there with your cell phone ready.

SUMMIT COUNTY – If landing a spot on an international competition circuit is what Breckenridge’s Katie Uhlaender is capable of with a broken foot, imagine what the 20-year-old will be able to do when ...

For this first episode of In The Know: Extreme Lengths, we met with Olympian Anthony Watson, who, following a serious knee injury that ended his track and field career, never thought he'd have a ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Matt Weston finished 15th in men's skeleton at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, something he considered wildly disappointing. He's been the best in the world ever since.

Skeleton is a high‑speed winter sliding sport where individual athletes race head‑first and face‑down on a specially designed sled along a precisely engineered ice track. The process begins with a ...

Skeleton racer Matt Antoine adopted Dixie the golden retriever after making a big move in 2015 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

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Austin Florian of Southington was on the ski racing team at Clarkson University. Twice a week, in his junior and senior years, he would go to Lake Placid to practice at Whiteface Mountain. Later on, ...

ALTENBERG, Germany (AP) — Germany took three of six possible medals in World Cup skeleton racing, including a sweep of the golds with Tina Hermann winning the women’s race and Axel Jungk getting the ...