To hear Mystique Ro talk about the first time she went on a skeleton run is to wonder why on earth the former track athlete stuck with one of the wilder Winter Olympic sports — one that involves ...

Mystique Ro still remembers her response the first time someone asked her to give the skeleton a try. “You want me to do what?” she said. That’s pretty much the right answer any sane, reasonable ...

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 ...

Imagine hurtling head-first down an icy chute at 80 miles per hour, your chin hovering just inches above the frozen surface. There are no brakes, no steering wheel, and definitely no airbags. You are ...

Flying face-first down an icy chute at speeds of up to 150km/h: skeleton certainly isn’t for the faint of heart. The death-defying Olympic sport also happens to be Team GB’s most successful, with ...

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 ...

Mystique Ro still remembers her response the first time someone asked her to give the skeleton a try. “You want me to do what?” she said. That’s pretty much the right answer any sane, reasonable ...