LAKE PLACID — For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two years ago and now, finally, she has gold. Bos is the new world champion of her sport, turning in ...

LAKE PLACID — In football, this would be a five-touchdown lead. In basketball, the subs would be in. In boxing, someone might consider throwing a towel. Matt Weston of Britain has a lead of 0.89 seconds at the halfway point of the world skeleton championships, after he cruised through his ...

LAKE PLACID — The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room inside a lodge just down the hill from the finish line. There are some stuffed animals, tons of toys, Mickey Mouse coloring books and big boxes of ...

LAKE PLACID — The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Championship have officially kicked off and will begin racing today. Athletes from a total of 38 nations — the highest number of nations represented in IBSF World Championship history — will compete this weekend, ...

LAKE PLACID — The final race of the headfirst-sliding sport known as skeleton awaits Ukrainian athletes Vladyslav Heraskevych and Yaroslav Lavreniuk. After that, they’re going home. They don’t know what awaits when they get there. Heraskevych and Lavreniuk are the only athletes from ...