Bad news for the Italian team: Samuel Costa will have to sit the first competitions of the season out due to an injury to his left knee.

The Japanese national championships on the normal and large hill were held last weekend in Sapporo.

Head Coach Mario Fuchs and his assistant Simon Glatthard have taken over responsibilities to put a the old complexion of fame on the squad which had produced several medallists at Olympic Winter Games and world championships but also had to suffer from a loss of their top athletes over the last couple of years.

t's been about four months now that Amelie Kober tore her right ACL during a slackline training session. Ever since, the Bavarian racer has been working hard for her comeback in Bad Endorf where she currently undergoes her rehab programme.

The Italian Ski Federation FISI has honoured their athletes of the year and for the first time, a Nordic Combined athlete has been chosen.

The slopestyle Europa Cup opener scheduled in SnowWorld Landgraaf, Holland on November 4th and 5th, 2015, is expected to be a record-breaking event.

In our series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present interviews with ski jumping athletes and officials. Today: Michael Neumayer (36).

Last winter, the Swiss alpine snowboard team underlined its strength again successfully tying on to the great 2014 Sochi Winter Games results with rising star Julie Zogg leading the way.

Severin Freund was named "Winter Sports Athlete of the Year" by the German Ski Association (DSV).

Four-Hills-Tournament winner Stefan Kraft was voted the "Newcomer of the Year" in Austria.