Skeleton is a sport where athletes race headfirst on a small sled down an icy track, controlling the sled with subtle shifts in their shoulders, knees and toes. Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images ...

Athletes at the Olympics dive in headfirst for a chance at gold. That's quite literal when it comes to skeleton. The discipline, which started in 1887, features athletes sliding down an ice track face ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

A former athlete and bobsleigh brakeman, now Valentina Margaglio is a world class skeleton racer who helped Italy win a first world champs medal. We've all turned on the television to find ourselves ...

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 ...

Mystique Ro used to dream of being on the U.S. Olympic track team. Now, she's a U.S. medal hope in skeleton. Robert Michael / dpa via Associated Press To hear Mystique Ro talk about the first time she ...