After the past weekend, it is safe to say that one athlete made his aspirations for the rest of the season crystal clear: Austria’s Tomaz Druml. With his double victory in the Contintental Cup Opener in Park City, the 26-year-old overall Continental Cup winner of last season focussed on one goal and one goal only: the World Cup.

Åre, Sweden – Second after the opening run, Austria's Marcel Hirscher put everything on the line to take the lead in the second and watched Germany's Felix Neureuther fail to match his time.

A little bit later than expected it's time for the raceboarders to finally kick off things on the FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour. Carezza, Italy will host the season's opening Parallel Giant Slalom (single run format) on the Pra di Tori slope on December 16th, 2014, being the prelude to an action packed racing week. 

After a last snow control which took place this Sunday morning FIS officials have confirmed the Audi FIS Ski World Cup races scheduled in Val Gardena/Groeden (ITA) on 19th-20th December 2014 and Alta Badia (ITA) on 21st December 2014. 

Ingvild Flugstag Oestberg and Finn Haagen Krogh, both of Norway recorded their first ever World Cup victories with sprint wins today in Davos, Switzerland. The Norwegian team dominance continued with a sweep of both the men's and ladies' podiums. 

Severin Freund won the second individual competition in Nizhny Tagil (RUS). Under changing wind conditions the German posted a jump on 131.5 m and took his first win this season. 

After the lack of snow in middle Europe is making it difficult for organisers everywhere to prepare the jumping hills and tracks for competition use, there was a little doubt also about the World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein which is scheduled to the next weekend. 

The first Ski Jumping World Cup in Nizhny Tagil is history, and it was a good debut for the Russian Organizer. This is the unanimous opinion of athletes and officials after the two competitions this past weekend.

Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway - the current Overall World Cup leader - was back on top of the podium today in the 15 km classic in Davos, Switzerland.  Sundby commented in the media yesterday that it might be possible to complete the 3 laps of the 5 km course without wax on the skis, but he also stated that it would be a big effort.

Anders Fannemel took his first win in the World Cup. At the World Cup premiere in Nizhny Tagil (RUS) the Norwegian scored a total of 263.1 points with 132 m and 133 m and came in ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer and Severin Freund.