Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.

Skeleton made its Olympic debut at the 1928 Winter Games in Switzerland and became a permanent event in 2002 during the Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Women’s skeleton made its Olympic debut at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, where Tristan Gale and Lea Ann Parsley took gold and silver, respectively, representing the United States. Since then Team USA has managed just one more medal in women’s skeleton, a silver from Noelle Pikus-Pace at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Just days before the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are set to begin, U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender is still fighting for a spot. The American is at the center of a controversy after the Canadian skeleton team made a decision at a recent race that ultimately cost her a sixth Olympic appearance.

Great Britain's hopes of winning multiple skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics have been hit by a potential helmet ban just days before the start of competition in Milan and Cortina.

Team GB has gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a bid to overturn a last-minute illegal-gear ruling.

By Mitch Phillips CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Skeleton may slightly trail luge and bobsleigh in the sliding sport speed rankings but with its athletes' heads skimming only centimetres from a tunnel of ice,

This year, the U.S. also has the largest presence with more than 230 athletes, but of those, only a small minority are Black. Because we know Black Americans are often underrepresented in the Olympics– especially the Winter Games– here’s the time to show up and out for Black athletes making noise in 2026.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said it had no jurisdiction to make a ruling in the case involving American Olympic hopeful Katie Uhlaender.