Sliding face-first on an icy track at speeds up to 80 mph looks dangerous and terrifying. But that's what Olympic skeleton athletes choose to do, run after run. And since there's very little to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kendall Wessenberg hurls herself headfirst into, well, most things. The fastest I've ever gone is 86. Skeleton sliders lie face down on *** sled using their shoulders and knees to steer, navigate that ...