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

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.

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

Team GB have been caught up in a row about illegal helmets on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics.

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.

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 ...

Great Britain's hopes of winning multiple skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics have been hit by a potential helmet ban just days before the start of competition in Milan and Cortina.

A storm is brewing at the Winter Olympics after skeleton officials banned Great Britain’s new helmet unveiled days before the competition. The well-funded Team GB outfit has tapped into Formula 1 and cycling partners to shoot to top of the pack in skeleton, dominated in recent times by men’s medal favourites Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt.

Jacqueline Loelling, the reigning world champion of Germany, leads the women's skeleton competition after the first two runs in 1:43.86. She's 0.02 seconds ahead of Austria's Janine Flock, and 0.10 seconds ahead of defending gold medalist Lizzy Yarnold of ...

Cold hearted move, Canada! The Canadian Olympic team ruthlessly robbed a US racer of the chance to compete at the upcoming 2026 winter games by manipulating the point system earlier this month, an investigation has found.