It's been more than six months that Tomoka Takeuchi wrote history at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. 

Austria’s 25-year-old Anna Fenninger has been elected ‘Skieur d’Or-AIJS’ for the 2013/14 season by a large majority of members of the International Association of Ski Journalists becoming the 15th woman to receive that award a year after Slovenia’s Tina Maze. 

The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed today on a set of 40 recommendations that will shape the future of the Olympic Movement. The recommendations will be presented, discussed and voted upon by the full IOC Membership at the 127th IOC session in Monaco on 8 and 9 December.

It seems the last weeks/months have been something like a Hedgehog Day for the Swiss Snowboard Cross Team as the squad led by Harald Benselin visited Saas-Fee for several training camp which alternated with stamina work out weeks 

It is ‘go time’ for the 2014/15 Audi FIS Ski World Cup this weekend in Soelden (AUT) as the new season traditionally gets underway with two giant slaloms on the Rettenbach glacier. 

Last weekend, the Audi Conference Centre in Munich (GER) hosted the first-ever FIS Cross and Slope Course Design Workshop. The goal of the seminar was to gather all the stakeholders involved with Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard competitions in one place to discuss the most important issues about course design before the 2014/15 season kicks off in December. 

With the onset of snow starts falling in Central Europe, the World Broadcasters Meeting and last Technical Inspection took place before the 2015 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard World Ski Championships kick off just 86 days from now in Kreischberg (AUT).

It will be no surgery for Magnus Moan after all, as was decided in a meeting with the Norwegian team doctor, Petter Olberg, at Trondheim today. Moan had been having problems with pain in his heel and achilles tendon for years but was able to train normally in the last few seasons. A new MRT earlier this week showed a stress fracture of the heel bone. 

Germany’s best technical racer, Felix Neureuther, will skip the World Cup season opener in Soelden, Austria, in order to focus on the first slalom of the season in Levi, Finland. 

Christoph Wahrstötter, member of the Austrian Ski Cross team, suffered a meniscus fracture in his left knee crashing in a training run on the Pitztal glacier. As if that wouldn't have been enough, the 25-year-old skier of the national squad also tore his ACL.