There is a certain brand of madness reserved for those who choose to hurtle down a winding corridor of jagged ice with nothing but a thin sheet of fiberglass between ...

After making its first Olympic appearance in the 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, skeleton became a permanent Olympic fixture with both men's and women's events in 2002. A new mixed team ...

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 ...

The skeletonization of a watch is a specialized technique requiring hours of chiseling and metal trimming by a skilled watchmaker to remove non-essential components of the movement. What remains is ...

Each skeleton athlete races with a specialized sled, helmet, skin-tight race suit, and shoes embedded with hundreds of steel spikes. There’s no steering wheel or brake lever — just the athlete, lying ...

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 ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...