Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams (consisting of 2 to 4 people) perform timed descents down an icy slope in a vehicle equipped with steerable skates (called a bobsleigh), propelled at the start by team members and then by the force of gravity.
Depending on the number of crew members, this is referred to as a two-man Bobsled or a four-man Bobsled.
Skeleton is an individual winter sport in which athletes ski down an icy slope on a sled equipped with skates, lying in a prone (belly-down) position with their heads forward and feet back. This characteristic posture differentiates skeleton from luge, where athletes lie on their backs with their heads behind and their feet forward.
Unlike the other sled sports, bobsledding and luge, the race always involves individual competitors. Like bobsledding, but unlike luge, the race begins with a running start during which you push the sled while holding it with one or, more rarely, two hands.
The Paralympic version of bobsledding, a winter sport in which teams (consisting of 1 person) perform timed descents down an icy slope, aboard a vehicle equipped with steerable skates (called a bobsled), propelled at startup by a mechanical piston and then by the force of gravity.
Paralympic alpine skiing is the variant of alpine skiing practiced by athletes with physical or visual disabilities.
Equipment is adapted to the functional ability of the athlete, who may use normal skis, a sled mounted on a mono-ski, outriggers or orthopedic prostheses as appropriate. People with blindness or low vision can ski accompanied by a guide who precedes them on the slope by giving them voice directions on the route to follow.
