Skeleton is a sport of extreme speed, razor sharp precision, and daredevil courage. Here's how the sport works on the icy track.

Britain won the first Olympic mixed skeleton title with Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker taking gold in Milan Cortina.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Janine Flock has yet another chance at the gold medal that always seems to escape her grasp. The 36-year-old Austrian — a four-time Olympian with no medals to show for it — held the midpoint lead in the women's skeleton race at the Milan Cortina Games on Friday night,

The first-ever skeleton mixed team event had a surprising performance from the Americans. Here's how they did. (AP Photo)

Weston becomes Britain's third skeleton gold medalist: Amy Williams won at the 2010 Vancouver Games, then Lizzy Yarnold went back-to-back in 2014 and 2018.

Heraskevych will no longer compete in Milan after the IOC announced his disqualification.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) handed down a ban to Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday for wearing a helmet that featured pictures of Ukrainians who were killed in Russia’s invasion of the country.