Competing in her fourth Olympic Games, 36-year-old Janine Flock of Austria set the tone early with a track record (57.22 seconds) as the day’s first runner. Flock then bookended the event, going last on Run 2 and keeping a 0.04-second lead ahead of the second day of competition.

Heraskevych had asked to be reinstated immediately or to be allowed to perform supervised provisional runs until CAS ruled on the case.

Teammates show solidarity with Vladyslav Heraskevych, who says he is not violating IOC rules because remembrance is not a political statement.

Women’s skeleton at Milan Cortina 2026 gets underway Friday, Feb. 13, and the competition looks to be an intriguing one. Run 1 is slated for 10 a.m. ET, with Run 2 to follow at 11:45 a.m. Medals will be awarded Saturday, Feb. 14 after Runs 3 and 4.

Imagine needing a hobby and missing the thrill of competition so much that you become an Olympian. That’s exactly how Johnstown-area native Dan Barefoot began his decade-long journey into the sport of skeleton.

Southington native and Olympic skeleton racer Austin Florian set a new start record in the men’s skeleton competition Thursday morning. During his second run, Florian was the fastest to accelerate, push,

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych's appeal against his disqualification from the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, upholding a ruling that barred him from competing over a helmet honoring victims of Russia's invasion.

Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for “refusing to adhere” to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athlete expression guidelines regarding his insistence on wearing a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine in competition.

The men's skeleton competition got off to an exciting start on Thursday as Great Britain's Matt Weston led the top six, which were separated by less than a second.