Penn State’s Dan Barefoot came late to skeleton, but it was worth the wait

Barefoot decided to take up the Olympic sport at age 26 while working at a West Chester landscape architecture firm. Now 35, he competed in two skeleton events at this year's Winter Games.
The Newtown Bee

From Gold Medal Honors To Catastrophic Injuries, And Everything In Between, Olympics Had It All

Whether it was the United States claiming both the women’s and men’s hockey gold medals with dramatic overtime wins over Canada, or the exhilaration and grace of individual events from skiing and ...

Olympian Austin Florian honored by his CT hometown on 'little hill' where his athletic life began

Dozens of fans of Olympic skeleton racer Austin Florian welcome him home at Mount Southington in Southington, Conn., Friday, ...

Marquette and Oshkosh athletes to test new sport in Germany

Two members of the USA National Alpine Luge Team — 16-year-old Thomas Matthews of Marquette, Mich. and Mason Palecek, 18, from Oshkosh, Wis. — will be sliding in the official rollout of alpine luge in ...
Landscape Architecture Magazine

Dan Barefoot's Olympic Juggling Act

After competing in skeleton at World Cup Tour events and three world championships for the U.S., Dan Barefoot made his ...

Germany's Lochner goes into retirement with Olympic 4-man bobsled gold win over Friedrich

Johannes Lochner caps Germany’s dominant sliding-sports Olympics by winning four-man bobsled gold and retiring on top ...

'Dude, good luck': The Olympic wit and wisdom of a pioneering African skeleton racer

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter ...