After many setbacks, controversies and only 13 months of construction, a feat hailed as "an Italian miracle," the sliding ...

When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next ...

She began sliding internationally in skeleton in 2017, debuted on the top-level World ... Weston has won two of the three world titles since placing a disappointing 15th at the 2022 Olympics. He ...

Israel’s bobsled and skeleton racing teams are going downhill fast – and that’s a good thing. Both “sliding” sports involve racing down an icy track and making fifteen to twenty 90-degree turns at ...

Tim Reynolds delivered two exclusive stories from the bobsled and skeleton world championships in Lake Placid, New York, ...

It’s not new for moms to be competing as sliders. Curtis remembers the scene at the 2014 Olympics when U.S. skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus-Pace — then a mother of two — won a silver medal in ...

was an alternate on the Canadian team for the 2022 Olympics yet never so much as made the trip to Beijing. She then spent a year with the American squad after members of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton ...

Also that year, Katie Uhlaender won a world title in skeleton. Uhlaender is on the team for this year’s worlds and could make a U.S. record-tying sixth Winter Olympics in 2026. The top U.S. skeleton ...

Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands has a lead of about a quarter-second going into the final run of the women’s skeleton world ... bronze at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. She had the lead after ...