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Athletes speed down the track during the men's two-man bobsleigh World Cup race in Igls, near Innsbruck, Austria, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Skeleton slider Daly tests positive, may affect Olympic plan

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 23, 2021 04:28 PM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2020, file photo, Tucker West, of United States, finishes his team relay race at the World Luge Championships in Krasnaya Polyana, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia. The USA Luge Olympic veteran got the first run down the ice at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, when the Americans’ home track opened for the season. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev, File)
USA Luge gets 1st runs of the season on Lake Placid track

By Tim Reynolds Oct. 14, 2021 06:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021, file photo, Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones, of the United States, start during the two-women's bobsled race at the Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. Reigning women’s world bobsled champion and three-time Olympic medalist Humphries has asked the International Olympic Committee for a solution that would allow her to compete in this winter’s Beijing Games even though her American citizenship will not be finalized. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
World champions Humphries, Jones named to US bobsled team

By Tim Reynolds Sep. 06, 2021 10:28 AM EDT

FILE - Tucker West, of the United States, celebrates his second place finish after his second run of a men's World Cup luge event in Lake Placid, N.Y., in this Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, file photo. Luge’s governing body took upcoming World Cup races away from the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, citing ongoing difficulties in getting foreign athletes into and out of the North American countries during the pandemic. The planned World Cup stops in Whistler, British Columbia, and Lake Placid, New York, will now both be held at the 2014 Sochi Olympic track in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
Luge moves Lake Placid, Whistler World Cup races to Russia

By Tim Reynolds Aug. 31, 2021 06:33 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021, file photo, Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones, of the United States, start during the two-women's bobsled race at the Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. Reigning women’s world bobsled champion and three-time Olympic medalist Humphries has asked the International Olympic Committee for a solution that would allow her to compete in this winter’s Beijing Games even though her American citizenship will not be finalized. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries seeks path to Beijing Olympics

By Tim Reynolds Aug. 27, 2021 03:06 AM EDT

FILE - Great Britain's Andrew Matthews, from left to right, Ben Simons, Toby Olubi and Lamin Deen celebrate after their second-place finish in a four-man World Cup Bobsleigh race in Whistler, British Columbia, in this Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, file photo. British Bobsleigh and Skeleton announced Thursday, June 17, 2021, that the four-man team of Deen, Simons, Olubi and Matthews has been upgraded to the gold medal for a race that occurred Nov. 25, 2017 in Whistler, Canada. The Russian crew that beat them that day has since been disqualified. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Britain upgraded to World Cup bobsled gold from 2017 race

By Tim Reynolds Jun. 17, 2021 09:07 AM EDT

This photo provided by IndyCar shows Leigh Diffey at an IndyCar Series race in Monterey, Calif., in a Sept. 18, 2019, photo. Leigh Diffey has been stereotyped, if you will, as the speed guy at NBC Sports. He's the lead announcer for this weekend's Indianapolis 500 and most of his network involves sports that go fast. His next assignment has Diffey covering the fastest athletes in the world. The 50-year-old Australian has been named play-by-play announcer of NBC Olympics’ track & field coverage for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. (Joe Skibinski/IndyCar via AP)
Man of Speed: Diffey to call Olympic track and field for NBC

By Jenna Fryer May. 25, 2021 01:08 PM EDT

No World Cup bobsled, skeleton in North America next season

By Tim Reynolds Apr. 01, 2021 03:40 PM EDT
Bobsledders and skeleton athletes from North America might be logging a lot of miles in the looming Olympic year, without any close-to-home races to help them...

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2002, file photo, Jimmy Shea of the United States pushes off during the men's skeleton final at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics on his way to winning a gold medal in Park City, Utah. Shea has been charged with sexual abuse of a child in Utah. He made his first court appearance Monday, March 29, 2021, on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual battery. The alleged abuse occurred in 2020, court documents show. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Olympic gold medalist charged with child sex abuse in Utah

Mar. 30, 2021 02:51 PM EDT

A view of the bobsled track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Bobsledding tradition in Cortina goes back nearly a century and locals are hoping that the Eugenio Monti track can be reopened for the 2026 Olympics in the Italian resort. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Cortina craves bobsled revival with 2026 Olympics

By Andrew Dampf Mar. 09, 2021 08:55 AM EST

Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones of the United States celebrate after winning the two women's bobsleigh race at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Humphries, Jones win historic world bobsled title for US

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 06, 2021 12:13 PM EST

USA Bobsled and Skeleton adds six to its Hall of Fame

Dec. 09, 2020 05:22 PM EST
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Olympic gold medalists Tristan Gale Geisler, Steve Mesler and Vonetta Flowers are among a six-person class of enshrinees to the USA...

Dominik Dvorak and Jakub Nosek of Czech Republic speed down the track during their first run of the two man Bobsled World Cup race in Sigulda, Latvia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
Olympic test event in China called off amid travel concerns

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 28, 2020 10:26 AM EST

Michael Vogt and Sandro Michel of Switzerland finish their second run of the two man Bobsled World Cup race in Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
Luge federation calls off plans to race in China this season

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 25, 2020 01:13 PM EST

John Daly, Megan Henry lead US skeleton national team

Nov. 21, 2020 08:33 PM EST
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — John Daly is a step closer to another Olympic berth. The two-time Olympian is back on the USA Skeleton national...

John Daly returns to skeleton, wins Day 1 of US team trials

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 20, 2020 05:04 PM EST
John Daly had not been in a skeleton race for nearly three years. He wasn’t rusty. The two-time U.S. Olympian won the first USA Skeleton...

Sliders hit the ice for 1st day of training in Lake Placid

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 02, 2020 01:11 PM EST
On-ice training for the three American national sliding programs started Monday, though how the rest of the season will ultimately play out amid the...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 file photo, Alexander Zubkov, Olympic champion and President of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation, speaks to the media at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s flagbearer at the 2014 Sochi Olympics opening ceremony lost his appeal Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 against being banned for doping in a state-backed program to win a gold medal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld two-year bans imposed by bobsled’s governing body on four athletes including Alexander Zubkov. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)
Russian Olympic flagbearer loses appeal in Sochi doping case

Oct. 30, 2020 01:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 file photo, Germany's Thomas Florschuetz, left, and brakeman Richard Adjei, celebrate after winning the silver medal at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. Richard Adjei, who won an Olympic silver medal in bobsled for Germany after playing in the NFL Europe, has died. He was 37. The International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation said Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 that Adjei’s death was announced by his family. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)
Adjei, Olympic bobsled medalist and NFL Europe player, dies

Oct. 28, 2020 10:06 AM EDT

Sliding track for 2022 Beijing Olympics to get 1st test

By Tim Reynolds Oct. 23, 2020 10:51 AM EDT
The sliding track built for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is about to get its first test. With athletes from many nations — including...