LINKS
News articles, blogs, pictures, race results, videos, etc.
ATHLETE AND RACE INFO
Vancouver2010.com:
Skeleton
Overview of the sport, athletes profiles, news and videos.
NBC
Olympics: Skeleton
Videos, athlete profiles, and news.
Olympic.org:
Skeleton
Reviews skeleton history, equipment, glossary, photos.
FIBT
International rankings and race results from the sport's official
governing body.
SkeletonSport.com
Created by a slider on the Dutch national team, this site is best known
for
providing international race results and
profiles of top-ranked competitors.
Davenport
Sleds
Canadian sled builder's site includes race results.
BLOGS AND SLIDERS' PERSONAL SITES
Kimber
Gabryszak (USA)
Highly informative blog from a fellow slider at the Park City track who
quickly made the national team.
Canadian National Development Team (CAN)
Ant Sawyer (GBR)
Mellisa Hollingsworth (CAN)
Lanette Prediger (CAN)
Kyle Tress (USA)
Amy Williams (GBR)
David Swift (GBR)
Andy Wood (GBR)
Adam Pengilly (GBR)
Katharine Eustace (NZL)
Kazuhiro Koshi (JPN)
Luke Schulz (USA)
Michelle Bartleman (CAN)
Brad Starkey (USA)
Keslie Tomlinson (USA)
Louise Corcoran (NZL)
Annie O'Shea (USA)
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA)
Jeff Pain (CAN)
Matt Antoine (USA)
Ori
Hoffer (USA; retired)
Old info (2003), but informative.
Jay
Beckner (USA)
Skeleton
X: 2005
Alex M. White recounts his time in fantasy camp (the same one I was in).
Slide
Story
An old sliding journal from a webmaster of a Track &
Field site,
and track
coach at West Point, Army.
Also, Facebook members can view detailed profiles of some skeleton athletes, including Michi Halilovic (GER), Katie Uhlaender (USA), and John Daly (USA).
GENERAL INFO
(Utah)
Olympic park hones new sliders
Deseret News (June 27, 2009)
You,
too, can go sledding like Olympic competitors
San Diego Union-Tribune (Mar. 15, 2004)
"Slide
it In" (Dallas Observer, Apr. 15, 2004)
Profiles athlete Kevin Ellis and discusses the sport's obscurity in the
USA.
Headfirst
The first published book on skeleton (2006), by former USBSF head Robie
Vaughn. I wrote a book
review for it.