Channel 11 previously told you that Daniel Barefoot, 35, a Johnstown-area native and Penn State alum, had qualified for the U ...
A Western Pennsylvania athlete has reportedly secured a spot for the Winter Olympics. On social media, Johnstown area native ...
Here is a look at some of the differences between luge, bobsled and skeleton: ...
The Winter Olympics skeleton competition is a thrilling head-first sliding sport. Athletes start by running about 30 meters to gain speed, then leap onto their sleds, reaching speeds over 80 ...
There’s no real way to describe what it’s like to be standing less than ten feet away from an icy track and having a bobsled go by you at 80 miles an hour. You stand there with your cell phone ready.
There’s some clear home-ice advantages in sliding sports, and Olympic gold medalist Steven Holcomb exploited that truth to perfection in the first half of the World Cup bobsled campaign. His record in ...
The Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, may be over, but for many athletes, almost making it that far serves as an inspiration to strive even harder. Courtney Yamada is one such athlete. Selected as an ...
An international sports governing body is investigating after a Canadian coach was accused of manipulating an event — ...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Germany’s Julia Taubitz had the fastest time in the second heat and that was enough to give her a World Cup women’s luge win on Friday night, with American sliders grabbing ...
There is a level of intense concentration and calm as Pocatello native Andy Whittier tears down a frozen track accelerating to speeds of over 80 mph with his face centimeters from the ice.
Canadian skeleton racers Madeline Parra and Brielle Durham say they were comfortable with their coach's decision to pull them ...
The investigative minds at How to Survive explore skeleton racing dynamics, injury prevention, and survival strategies to ...