A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Team GB have multiple medal hopes in skeleton at this Winter Olympics (Getty) Flying face-first down an icy chute at speeds of up ...

‍U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender has asked the International Olympic Committee for a wildcard into the 2026 Winter Olympics after Canada's skeleton team withdrew four athletes from a competition ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 5 - The United States is the most successful skeleton nation in Winter Olympic history but with most of those medals now gathering dust, the arrival of the new mixed ...

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, ...

Katie Uhlaender's hopes of making the women's skeleton field for next month's Milan Cortina Games have been thwarted again, after U.S. officials said Monday that the International Olympic Committee ...

IOC President Kirsty Coventry had been asked to intervene after Katie Uhlaender was the victim of alleged competition manipulation, causing her to miss out on February's Winter Olympics. The ...