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

Double Olympic skeleton champion Matt Weston is one of the most articulate athletes you could ever meet but, even five days on from becoming the only Briton to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics,

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

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 name of Laila Edwards will be front and center in communities of color if the United States wins the gold medal in Olympic Women’s Hockey. Edwards, a defender from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is the first Black woman to play for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey team.

A Ukrainian skeleton racer has been banned from competing at the Winter Olympics after wearing a helmet honoring athletes who have died in the Ukraine War. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) set out its reasoning in a lengthy statement this morning after Vladyslav Heraskevych had questioned whether “this is the price of our dignity” on

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was "proud" of Vladylsav Heraskevych, adding, "Having courage is worth more than any medal."

It's a bird, it's a plane! Nope — it's a luge racer speeding down an ice track at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Luge — a sport where athletes hurl themselves downhill feet-first on a small sled — wins the gold medal for the fastest Winter Olympic event.