The raceboard team of Snowboard Germany has been testing some new training methods to break through the daily preparation routine for the up-coming winter season.

Football is big in Europe. And it's getting bigger again as the teams of each league are at the end of their preparation for the new season.

While the summer temperatures are back in Europe, the Austrian team escaped the heat with a training camp in Oberhof which featured cross-country training in the ski tunnel as well as jumping sessions on the newly overhauled hills in Oberhof.

Severin Freund was not competing in the FIS Grand Prix opener last weekend in Wisla, but the currently best German ski jumper will be participating in Hinterzarten.

The Brazilian Winter Sports Federation in collaboration with the Club Andino Ushuaia recently held a set of FIS races at the Francisco Jerman Nordic Ski Area near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

The victories at the US national championships on the large hill, held on Saturday in Park City, went to Will Rhoads an Nina Lussi.

The Alpine stars Marcel Hirscher, Felix Neureuther and Aksel Lund Svindal switched ski for racing cars at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg,

Dawid Kubacki won the first individual competition of the FIS Grand Prix 2015

The Polish ski jumpers took the win in the team competitions at the FIS Grand Prix opener. In front of their home crowd, Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki, Piotr Zyla and Kamil Stoch took a clear win ahead of Germany and World Champion Norway with their total of 1042.7 points.

Decorated halfpipe skier Megan Gunning has officially announced her retirement after a five-year career with the Canadian National Team.