A new ski jumping center in Kandesteg (SUI) will celebrate its opening three months from now.

2015/2016 has been a tough season regarding athletes’ injuries, with over 30 severe injuries both on training days and on race days on the World Cup Tour, including former Overall World Cup winners Anna Veith (Fenninger), Aksel Lund Svindal, and Lindsey Vonn.

Next to Austrian team’s traditional season opening at the Stanglwirt in Tyrol, the team also presented a slightly changed training group structure to deal with the high number of athletes: next to the two existing training groups with World Cup and COC athletes, a third training group has been founded and will have a more regional focus.

Czech top Cross-Country Skier Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova has decided to have a break from Cross-Country Skiing to fully focus on athletics, having the marathon at the Olympic Games in Rio as a primary objective.

The Finnish Ski Association announced the national teams for the important 2016/17 season with the home World Championships in Lahti coming up in February.

The new head coach Andreas Mitter named the Finnish team for the 2016/17 season on Thursday.

Severin Freund had an arthroscopic hip surgery on Wednesday in Munich (GER) and will now not be able to jump for a couple of months.

Planica is one of three candidates bidding to host the 2021 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and the sole candidate applying for the 2020 FIS Ski Flying World Championships

With the countdown clock for the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti (FIN) hitting the 300-day mark tomorrow, the Organising Committee had a busy week, holding the important World Broadcaster meeting, immediately followed by the equally significant Coordination Group meetings.

The FIS Technical Committee Meetings 2016 will be held from 27^th September – 1^st October at the traditional location of the Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel (SUI).