Learn how Olympic skeleton competition works — from the structure of heats and timing rules to how medal winners are ...
Luge is the fastest of the sliding sports, with competitors lying on their backs and steering with reflexes and body balance.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
UPDATE: Bend’s Biancha Emery is now ranked 11th in the world for youth women’s skeleton after Wednesday’s race in Pyeongchang. The top 19 youth skeleton racers qualify for the Youth Olympic Games next ...
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 ...
There is a level of intense concentration and calm as Pocatello native Andy Whittier tears down a frozen track accelerating to speeds of over 80 mph with his face centimeters from the ice.
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, ...