Overall winner of the Skeleton World Cup, Matt Weston, finished the first day of competition at the 2026 Olympics as the leader: he became the best in the first two downhills.
24 of the 25 skeleton athletes who qualified for the Games took part in the first two heats of the 2026 Olympics. One of them, Vladislav Geraskevych, was disqualified before the start for intending to compete in a “memory helmet.”