Skeleton returns to the Olympic Winter Games for the first time since the 1948 Games in St. Moritz. At the Olympics Skeleton shares its venue with bobsleigh and luge at Utah Olympic Park.
Equipment Find out why someone checks a sled's temperature before every race.
Glossary Talk the talk, walk the walk. The sport got its name in 1892 when a new metal sled was unveiled and people thought it looked like a skeleton. The U.S. has won three of the six Olympic skeleton medals awarded.