Former Northern Michigan hurdler Ellyse Wolfrath is trading spikes for skeleton, balancing Olympic training in Utah with 12-hour shifts as a Wisconsin cardiac nurse while chasing a Winter Games dream.

The Olympic silver medalist shared the athletes she's most excited to watch and reflected on the thrill of skeleton.

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An icy track. A lightning-fast sled. And no fear. That’s the world of skeleton, the Winter Olympic sport where athletes dive ...

Abstract: Contrastive learning facilitates the acquisition of informative skeleton representations for unsupervised action recognition by leveraging effective positive and negative sample pairs.

WASHINGTON — As the Olympic Opening Ceremony kicks off the 2026 Winter Games in Milan Cortina, you might hear about a sport called skeleton and immediately wonder what it is. It’s one of the fastest ...

Skeleton is an exhilarating Winter Olympic sport in which athletes race head-first down an ice track at speeds reaching over 80 miles per hour (130km/h). While the event can look basic at first glance ...

MONTGOMERY, Pa. — This is Kevin Bittenbender, a retired United States Army Sergeant-Major and partial left leg amputee from Montgomery, zipping by in the blink of an eye, which led him to win two ...

Skeleton offers a high‑adrenaline blend of speed, precision and sheer courage as athletes hurtle head‑first toward victory. Athletes race down an ice track lying on a small, flat sled, with their face ...

Skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender says she should have been going to the 2026 Olympics in Italy next month. As a veteran of five Winter Games from 2006 to 2022, sliding in Turin, Vancouver, Sochi, ...

A skeleton athlete slides down the track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, that will host the Olympics. Last weekend, a sudden coaching decision shook up the women's qualifying picture. Alex Pantling / ...